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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
El Nino
SIR: I quite liked Geoffrey Luck’s piece “Keeping a Weather Eye Open” (April 2008). It’s just a pity that some of his statements were not better researched.
El Niño does indeed bring drier than average conditions to Eastern Australia but in the Eastern Pacific it interrupts the cold, nutrient-rich upwellings that provide for “bumper anchovy catches to the fishermen of Peru”. In El Niño conditions, warmer water, moist onshore winds and low nutrient levels decimate anchovies; seals and sea birds starve along with Peruvian fishermen.
If Luck is right about what “every school child knows”, it’s a shame they’ve all got it wrong. Don Gilchrist, Smithfield, Qld.
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
