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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
Ivan Head: Two Poems
Potato Sermon
Every day
I walk past my potatoes.
I go by
a little earlier
or a little later.
Their humble leaf
helps me
think of
lack of hubris
while I ponder hidden tubers.
And
down below
the humus
awaits
the Harvest Festival.
Ivan Head
A Prior Potato Sermon
The churchyard wall
by the copse
divides two crops
into potatoes one side
corpses the other.
One day there will be
a clearer distinction between the two,
a difference in lumpish density
as Aquinas put it
long before the potato reached Europe.
One will still be food for frying.
The other,
though tangible,
may become
bright, clear, radiant, agile and undying.
Most of the time
I think I would prefer
to be harvested by an angel,
but for now I really feel like a chip.
Ivan Head
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
