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Join Quadrant for evenings to remember when Biggar, Blainey, Windschuttle and Cameron-Ash address colonialism and its legacies
Oct 16 2024
4 mins
The authors of the Race and Reporting Handbook must think 1984 is a how-to guide
Oct 16 2024
4 mins
The ballyhooed 'joy' lifting Democrat hopes after Kamala's convention coronation has gone. She is the reason why
Oct 16 2024
14 mins
Ivan Head: The Compost Heap
The Compost Heap
The compost heap lay steaming
like a large beast, exhausted
and stretched out on the ground.
It is still breathing, visibly
exhaling as it loses form
in giving itself back to the earth.
It is also the cow collapsing,
drawn into the weight of the earth.
A multitude of brown leaves and shredding returns to soil.
The pitchfork goes through the pile.
He also takes the spade to it
and tosses the heap closer to the line of pines.
The animal moves one last time.
I think it was McAuley who said that from the air Tasmania looked like damp hessian.
Ivan Head
It seems the cardinal virtue in the modern Christianity is no longer charity, nor even faith and hope, but an inoffensive prudence
Oct 13 2024
4 mins
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
