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Used as cudgels in divorce actions, domestic violence orders all too often reward perjurers and ruin innocent lives
Sep 19 2024
36 mins
The vice-presidential candidate, like many former critics, came to accept Trump was ahead of the curve on economic nationalism
Sep 18 2024
17 mins
The punditocracy won't admit that, when it comes to Trump's sharp tongue, he's a novice compared to, say, Paul Keating
Sep 18 2024
4 mins
Jeremy Lockhart Nelson: ‘Hawk’ and ‘Rice’
Hawk
On a lemon-leaf day of spring
leaf-tender and strong you hung
poised on your hawk’s black wings
under the mango flesh of the sun.
You called my children away
Into blue depths of the sky.
Oh bring back my joy one day
before I grow bitter and die.
On a lemon-leaf day of spring
so tender and strong you hung
high on your hawk’s black wings
beneath the mango flesh of the sun.
Jeremy Lockhart Nelson
Rice
Ancestral ground
and rain gestate
green blades of it.
Un-husked,
this grain has heaped
its ancient gift
on haloed floors.
Mountains
of it
have formed cities,
raised kingdoms.
Song
and the thought
of sunyata
has sprung from it.
Incipient zero
rose from a mind
that ate of it.
Its lack
has withered
the human heart.
Jeremy Lockhart Nelson
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
