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In the Senate, a very queer notion of free speech
Sep 20 2024
2 mins
Researchers posit an irrefutable link between suspensions and incarceration. A harder look reveals this simply isn't true
Sep 19 2024
14 mins
Used as cudgels in divorce actions, domestic violence orders all too often reward perjurers and ruin innocent lives
Sep 19 2024
36 mins
Diversion
Water won’t be told,
having all the answers:
spill, overflow, current
sluice, level, torrent
farmsaving phreatic.
Today, it’s bellowing
Inundate! down our track
dust-and-lizard all summer
but from deluging skies
a dangerous drunk.
Offered options
that don’t mention uphill
bottle or dam
water is sometimes persuaded
so here I am, outside-in
as cold rain meets sweat.
I dig and call, cajole
eventually it comes
barking into diversion
scenting the rock-rolling creek.
I squelch to the generator
umbilical cord it to loud life,
peel to skinsmoke in the kitchen,
hit up the shower’s hot needles.
Water won’t be told
but sometimes will sidestep
rather than kick arse.
Madam: Archbishop Fisher (July-August 2024) does not resist the attacks on his church by the political, social or scientific atheists and those who insist on not being told what to do.
Aug 29 2024
6 mins
To claim Aborigines have the world's oldest continuous culture is to misunderstand the meaning of culture, which continuously changes over time and location. For a culture not to change over time would be a reproach and certainly not a cause for celebration, for it would indicate that there had been no capacity to adapt. Clearly this has not been the case
Aug 20 2024
23 mins
A friend and longtime supporter of Quadrant, Clive James sent us a poem in 2010, which we published in our December issue. Like the Taronga Park Aquarium he recalls in its 'mocked-up sandstone cave' it's not to be forgotten
Aug 16 2024
2 mins
