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In the Senate, a very queer notion of free speech
Sep 20 2024
2 mins
Researchers posit an irrefutable link between suspensions and incarceration. A harder look reveals this simply isn't true
Sep 19 2024
14 mins
Used as cudgels in divorce actions, domestic violence orders all too often reward perjurers and ruin innocent lives
Sep 19 2024
36 mins
Lost Property
for DTMV
Winter is the season
when often, quite
without rhyme or reason,
lost belongings return.
Beloved coats are found
with cashmere scarves
that warm and wind around
draughty ears and throats.
Desperate fingers thrust
down in pockets to serve
a snivelling nose that must
be blown—they bring to light
a lace-edged square
of cotton, long forgotten, soft
and quietly folded there
as if it never went missing.
Odd socks and gloves appear
in corners of crowded drawers,
for all the world like dear
friends, waiting to make a permanent pair.
The reunions bring a sweet relief
like the thrill when a homing pigeon flies in,
restoring his mate’s mislaid belief
in love and the law of the roost.
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
