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A chant you won't hear: 'What do we want? Nuclear! How much? Lots! When? Now!'
Oct 07 2024
4 mins
It's not just free speech they aim to curtail, it's also our right to rejoice in national landmarks
Oct 07 2024
5 mins
Norway’s pride in its democracy has been tainted by the May recognition of Palestine
Oct 07 2024
9 mins
Ian Keast: ‘1968: first English tutorial’
1968: first English tutorial
No trigger warnings then;
no acknowledgement of hate language
which might offend. Too bad
about sensibility, let alone nuance.
Here was full frontal artillery assault
on that faith “from the dark ages”;
that pre-Enlightenment “superstition”;
that power-bastion of the colonials.
The flank of an 18-y.o. fresher quickly exposed.
Later, over coffee and lunch in the Union
a debrief: surrender? retreat?
Or—quietly kindle imagined Joy,
to push past the watchful sentinels.
Ian Keast
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
