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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
Hazel Hall: ‘Squeezed’
Squeezed
a room’s available it has your name tucked in the wing for disabilities
they know that you avoid the metal frame that might betray an insecurity
your children took the running all your things were spread out
what to take and what to not some items claimed by family
some to bring a stash on ebay some for the op shop
there’s not much time to view your scraps of life
proudly displayed in their new owners’ places
paintings, chairs an antique carving knife
photographs displaying happy faces
they’re stored in your recall
this must suffice you’re
being squeezed
into decreasing
spaces
Hazel Hall
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
