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A Sydney-based academic and columnist for the Nine rags sets out to explain the US to Australians. It's not a pretty picture
Sep 20 2024
8 mins
The philospher began with the conviction 'the only human activity that seems to have any importance' is the great cosmic 'why?'
Sep 20 2024
24 mins
In the Senate, a very queer notion of free speech
Sep 20 2024
2 mins
Doug Buckley: Be careful what you quip
Be careful what you quip
We knew that it was just a joke,
at least we Ozzies knew,
just a jest by this local bloke
bus-driver ’round the view.
The lad was a big Ozzie yob
of twenty years perhaps,
the tourists a Germanic mob,
eager, taking snaps.
He bounded up to the steering wheel
happy to be our guide,
but what would be his tourist spiel?
prepare us for our ride
along the cliffs above the bay,
a truly precipitous track:
“Today’s a really bonzer day,
I’ve got me licence back.”
Berlin bookings down they note
for that particular trip
so the moral you’ll now hear them quote:
“Be careful what you quip.”
Doug Buckley
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
