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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
I criticised the quality of Chinese electrical goods, then they came after me for revenge
Oct 06 2024
8 mins
Incineration
Incineration
I reckon they’ll be sorry,
historians and poets,
the archeologists.
They won’t know about our lives:
what we ate, how we walked,
our illnesses and why we died.
We won’t be down below,
or not in numbers to supply
a statistician’s set.
When people went to earth
they could always be exhumed,
their fragile bones read.
Burning human bodies
to throw the ashes away
with treasured rings and things
leaves puzzles unresolved
by those who follow on.
No bog men’s jaws for them
if relics are shovelled off
to ovens where fires are lit.
Suzanne Edgar
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
