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Used as cudgels in divorce actions, domestic violence orders all too often reward perjurers and ruin innocent lives
Sep 19 2024
36 mins
The vice-presidential candidate, like many former critics, came to accept Trump was ahead of the curve on economic nationalism
Sep 18 2024
17 mins
The punditocracy won't admit that, when it comes to Trump's sharp tongue, he's a novice compared to, say, Paul Keating
Sep 18 2024
4 mins
Gabriel Fitzmaurice: Father Pat
Father Pat
In Memoriam Fr Patrick Cunningham 1903–1984
Father Pat, my uncle, was the kind
Who shunned the limelight any time he could;
Let others swan around, he didn’t mind,
’Twas enough to know that what he did was good.
A farmer’s son from Kerry, he took care
Of his parishful of blacks in New Orleans,
A simple man, his was the pastor’s share
Among the low and those of meagre means.
Offered elevation, he declined,
A monseigneurship was his, but Father Pat
Was not the kind of priest who wined and dined
Too often at top tables with fat cats.
He laboured till he went to his reward
Happy in the service of the Lord.
Gabriel Fitzmaurice
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
