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Our new G-G let slip an avalanche of heartfelt concern that recast our 236 years of indifference and guilt
Sep 17 2024
8 mins
The lust for power can be as great or greater driver of human effort as the good and humane
Sep 16 2024
11 mins
The promise a Covid royal commission has been renounced even as a sweeping inquiry is needed more than ever
Sep 16 2024
6 mins
Jullian Brothers, Tightrope Walkers. 1880s
Jullian Brothers, Tightrope Walkers. 1880s
At fourteen years of age he ran away
Arthur, the second son, travelling to Sydney
to join the circus. Years later
the tug of funambulism brought his brothers
Frederick Augustus, Edwin and Francis
to meet him on the highwire.
High fliers, tightrope dancers,
the dream of treading air held them
like cumulus cloud
cushioned the moment of drop,
their sling of safety hard beneath the feet
familiar as avenues.
Their mother, Jane Ward Bragge
(rumoured to be Thunderbolt’s sister)
ambushed them on the steps of Sydney Wharf
took to them with her umbrella, told them they’d disgraced
the family name, and never to use it again.
They didn’t.
Margaret Bradstock
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
