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Our new G-G let slip an avalanche of heartfelt concern that recast our 236 years of indifference and guilt
Sep 17 2024
8 mins
The lust for power can be as great or greater driver of human effort as the good and humane
Sep 16 2024
11 mins
The promise a Covid royal commission has been renounced even as a sweeping inquiry is needed more than ever
Sep 16 2024
6 mins
Mocco Wollert: ‘Kookaburra Bird’ and ‘Ondine: The Charolais Calf’
Kookaburra Bird
A feathered square,
squat and cocky,
he sends his laugh to echo
amongst the ghost gums
where the cracked earth
suffers silently, dying
in suffocating heat.
He flashes hidden blues
in the early dawn.
Laughing staccato arias,
he defies the elements
that shape our times,
should change him.
Mocking the dry ground
or praising lush greens,
his voice rings loudly
in both worlds.
Mocco Wollert
Ondine: The Charolais Calf
Among
the scorched stalks
of Northern pastures
stands the creamy,
sturdy body of the calf.
Hindlegs planted firmly,
head pushed closely
to her feeding fountain,
she sucks contentedly.
The mothers’ thick curls
lost in our sultry summer,
maybe she dreams
of luscious greens,
her calf will never know.
Mocco Wollert
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
