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Keeping Australia a pleasant, prosperous country should be immigration policy's only goal. National self-interest, in other words
Oct 13 2024
3 mins
It seems the cardinal virtue in the modern Christianity is no longer charity, nor even faith and hope, but an inoffensive prudence
Oct 13 2024
4 mins
Join Quadrant for evenings to remember when Biggar, Blainey, Windschuttle and Cameron-Ash address colonialism and its legacies
Oct 12 2024
4 mins
Me; Each Lily
Me
“In this mortal frame
of mine … there is something …”*
Yes, it’s me … and I
feel this me always yearning
for something that is not me.
* Matsuo Basho, “Learn from the Pine”
Each Lily
Each arum lily
beside the dam’s amphitheatre
is holding aloft
(as at carols by candlelight)
a yellow flame in a white cup.
It seems the cardinal virtue in the modern Christianity is no longer charity, nor even faith and hope, but an inoffensive prudence
Oct 13 2024
4 mins
Many will disagree, but World War III is too great a risk to run by involving ourselves in a distant border conflict
Sep 25 2024
5 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
