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The agency that hounded Bill Leak into an early grave isn't fussed by its staffers' support for Hamas
Oct 03 2024
19 mins
The Vance-Walz debate prompts a column that's more of a steaming pile
Oct 03 2024
3 mins
Our shambling excuse for a government is intent on suppressing opinions, even facts, it doesn't like
Oct 03 2024
9 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
Many will disagree, but World War III is too great a risk to run by involving ourselves in a distant border conflict
Sep 25 2024
5 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
