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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
Father and the Cordial Factory
(Rosebery, Tasmania)
To make up for a belting he
Would offer as a privilege work
With him at night bottling pop in
A shed for distribution round
The shops and pubs in West Coast towns.
But I was glad if one went off
In his face tense behind a wire
Mesh mask; and sitting in the back
On crates that weighed the ute down to
The tyres over potholes, I’d hop
From star to star, until I fell,
Tired out, into the dark of sleep,
To be startled awake by “Can’t
You lend a man a bloody hand,
I didn’t bring you here to dream”,
His visage above me as black
As if he’d switched the heavens off,
Without a twinkle to redeem.
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
