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The Republican presidential contender is an acquired taste. Given the alternative, it's a taste persnickety conservatives should make the effort to acquire
Sep 09 2024
4 mins
The proportions of Aboriginal children and young people placed in a relative or kin placement or with an Aboriginal foster carer have decreased, and the proportion of Aboriginal children who were reunified with their families has declined.
Sep 09 2024
17 mins
Manning Clark’s Anti-Semitism
That night tears came not only to my eyes when we stood and clapped and stamped and cheered Gough Whitlam … at long last we had a teacher who had a chance to lead us out of darkness into light, always provided that THEY did not pull him down, that THEY spared him a little before he went from hence and was seen no more.
—Manning Clark, The Years of Unleavened Bread
My belief is that our Leader, Adolf Hitler, was given by fate to the German Nation as our saviour bringing light into darkness.
—Nazi leader quoted in J.P. Stern, Hitler: The Fuhrer and the People
Recalling his waning days as editor of Quadrant in the March issue of the Monthly (which is itself probably a good indication of what he would have liked to make Quadrant into) Robert Manne mentions that: “Yet another of Les Murray’s recommendations argued, preposterously enough, that Manning Clark was an anti-Semite.”
As has been published in various places, including Peter Alexander’s biography Les…
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
