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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
Eagle Owl Caged
Deep in the wood’s shadow, amber eyes
glow, swivel at my approach: one
fluid move, a ruffle of specked feathers
and we are eye to eye.
We were never meant to meet:
this haunting cry through the bristling night,
swoop of dark wings across
the moon’s spilt path, sudden scream
in a ghostly hunt, hunched here
now mute, exposed to day, unable to fly
across the brutally low cage.
Averting my gaze
in sympathy I leave. Since I’m neither foe
nor prey his eyes no longer follow me
but stare impassively ahead:
this ready sentinel,
strong each soundless moment
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
