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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
Keith Russell: ‘All night I dream a Porsche’
All night I dream a Porsche
All night I dream
a Porsche,
the ultimate car.
I have a huge shed
for this dream and
a modest library of
ten thousand volumes,
arranged, for this dream.
I have gleaming tools
galore and a database of
projects so vast it forms
a cloud of ones and
zeros that could shade
the great stony desert and
bring about climate change.
My wife has started to
look
like a set of possible
body panels with flairs for
fat tyres and scoops for
rushes of cooling air and
bumps and bulges in
right places and
paint the colour of
eternity, and
glass so clear you
could swear there
is a soul in here,
somewhere.
Keith Russell
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
