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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
K.M. Preston: ‘Poddy Calves’
Poddy Calves
for Polly and Moo
The smell is bucolic, mixed animal and fertilizer
with eucalyptus top notes from the hills,
cow’s breath of munched green pasture
and liquid dung flung and aired by swishing tail.
Poddies, orphaned or rejected, are calves
that have farmers’ kids to substitute
what lacks in motherly love, and identities
that keep them safe from cattle sales for years.
City folk have meat on polystyrene trays
for tossing on the barbie. Cattle are that
smelly hindrance on rural roads, bustling
a threat to schedule and the Audi’s paintwork.
In the country, the bottom line is porous stone
where sentimentality soaks and bleeds.
Names are garlanded on poddies,
and names demand a commitment.
K.M. Preston
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
