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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
Mrs Oscar Hammerstein
“Mrs Oscar Hammerstein, who was an Australian, presented this beautiful tea set to the National Gallery of Victoria in 1961.”
—card on Famille rose tea set 2007
Dorothy Blanchard, you really do have a name—sign!
But the Vic Gallery says “Mrs Oscar Hammerstein”
presented this 1760s Orient tea china,
on each showcard as if you were your husband’s diner
You were Tasmanian—they claim just Australian
Tea-saucer flowers and tendrils swirl like columbine
A love song to equal your husband’s tenderly mine
No ordinary tea-set—nothing could be finer
Dorothy Blanchard
A musical actress, you ran namesake interior design
At 86 on Vanity Fair’s “Best Dressed” with straight spine
Two children, two marriages, witty repartee-liner
Founder of U.S. “Welcome House” Adoption, child-shiner
Daughter of Henry James, master mariner in brine
You deserve to be toasted—titled with the best of wine
Dorothy Blanchard
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
