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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
Mary Cresswell: ‘Lockdown Pastoral’
Lockdown Pastoral
If you just turn your head
someone is there watching
Rats in the ceiling, heard but not seen
neighbours quarrelling, at it full time
Low-tide beach, all that water waiting
worn-out fanbelt caught on the wrong tooth
Not the first calm minute of waking
but the jolt as the swing hits its height
Night is frozen in ongoing shadow
yesterday’s sound is good for tomorrow
Clouds of unknowing reflect only glare
dogs speak for us when they bay at the moon
Listen hard and you’ll hear
the other shoe dropping.
Mary Cresswell
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
