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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
In the picture
The bride and groom, their mothers,
the two bridesmaids,
the groom’s brother and the bride’s brother,
pose for this outdoor photograph.
The foreground is clear, the background misty.
It is London in September 1905.
The men wear top hats and high stiff collars.
The bride—solemn in her veil,
is holding lilies and carnations.
Unsmiling too the bridesmaids
in their large hats and muslin frocks.
Everyone looks glum.
Someone has laboured over the girls’ dresses
and scrimped to pay for flowers.
Could the men have hired their hats?
Their frock-coats? We shall never know.
And who has found the money
for this professional photograph?
All might pass quite unremarked except,
backdrop to the wedding group, is a high brick wall
spiked on top with shards of broken glass.
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
