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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
Homo Erectus; Through a Glass
Through a Glass
Old glass was spun in circles,
and we’ve fathomed only after centuries
the blower’s thickened edges
blur a blued and pocked window pane;
but Pilkington’s float-glass hasn’t
mystery, just industrial perfection
uniform, mundane. So when I glance
out at new-fledged chicks,
grappling for balance in the creamy
hawthorn hedge, I don’t lose them
through a misted whorl storm
but from a quick prod by time.
Outside, though, in raw blossom scent,
an ancient rite awaits me still,
in the feathery scruffs’
edgy session, of dust ruffles
tail-tips, apprentice trills. This
stolen stretch an endorphin rush
tears up my naked sight—
unmasked tenderness, a nascent
soaring, impatient for flight
Olivia Byard
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
