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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
Finding a Subject for Poetry
You hear it, as you
glance over your shoulder
while talking to someone,
see it approach
and fondle your cheek.
When you are driving
it makes you careless.
It catches you
while you are eating a sandwich.
It likes to move in your skull
teasing you with
all the ways
it can be delivered
onto your page. It disappoints.
It reminds you of itself.
You can’t medicate
against it. Sometimes you feel closer
to it in your dreams.
You fall in love with it
even if it’s ugly
but you fear it.
You know its power
to possess.
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
