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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
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
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
