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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
Les Murray: Stuart Devlin’s Sculpture
Stuart Devlin’s Sculpture
Modern coins the sizes of shine
swept off my friend’s bureau in Ghent
and pocketed by my careless habit—
not brown pennies too dull to return
they include designer Devlin’s sculpture
of the duckbilled animal
swimming up to the top swirl
and five kangaroo tails mixed to a dollar.
When the Irish attained their republic
they mounted their noble beasts trim,
each well inside a knurled rim
and labelled in lapidary Gaelic
while our successors simply enact
themselves: the lyrebird lapped under music,
echidna belly-on like a buckle
each numerally off centre and whacked
What is the use of small change?
To pay small debts, toss up, delight children,
to gamble by the jingle-crash billion—
to clean your teeth, with the card tasting strange
Les Murray
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
