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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
Marilyn Peck: ‘Feeding the Wild Song Birds’
Feeding the Wild Song Birds
We had to stop feeding the wild song birds:
Veranda rails were a hot spot of invitation.
We’d fed them meat there, for their hunger
Was cute and noisy. We were new, waiting.
They are cannibals. We realise we’d failed.
Kookaburras, butcher birds, magpies and crows;
They drove out all the blue wrens, willy-wagtails
Who were the usual visitors, and everyone knows
Honey eaters don’t eat meat. The magpies,
Butcher birds, kookaburras, crows are keeping
Watch on us now. They follow, glued like spies,
For worms, bugs we kill in grass, mowing.
Magpies are always ready to dive-bomb in their
Savage breeding season. There will be crows
Murdering mangoes. But we stopped feeding
Them meat on our back veranda, and it shows.
Marilyn Peck
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
