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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
Ikebana
Ikebana
Not the flower itself but its patterning
in cosmic space of a room let
it dance on invisible wire delicacy
of cut of placement
lace blossoms together tidy nature
just a little there must be shade
a hint of darkness
but one bud must always point to the sun
eye should rise to a mountain peak
then draw back consider
re-consider the slope follow
the waterfall all the way down
to where a village begins to show itself
emerging from violet declivities
and all suggested
by bend and buckle of branches
a tension where there is no resistance
where past and present gather
and the future
like some as yet unseen flower
begins to bloom softly in the distance.
Shane McCauley
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
