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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
Five Flowers
Five Flowers
1
Composition
A gardener
or a painter is needed
to improve
the composition of those
sprawling purple irises.
2
Plenty
If the lolling weight
of the purple flower-cluster
is not enough, then
add a fidgeting fantail to
the leaning agapanthus stalk.
3
Celebration
Ten weeks before
Christmas, the arum lilies
conduct their own
celebration of the Child,
waving candles in white cups.
4
Wheel
Picture a circle
then place it as a rim around
the daisy petals
spoking so straight and slender
from their orange pollen hub.
5
Dive
On its second day
in the vase, the dangling fuchsia’s
four slender petals
curve right back, as if the flower
has resolved to dive into death.
Andrew Lansdown
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
