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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
My Eternal Captain
(Joe Byrne, a member of the Kelly Gang, died at the siege of Glenrowan, aged twenty. His body was strung up after death for photographs.)
The photo that you see of me is not me.
I lived my life
in brotherhood
little else to do
apart from opium and horses
cows and stars
the earth revolved round him
and I am dead.
That photo is not me.
I’m the one who shot
my best friend
in the face
I’d loved him since
we were small
we thought we could
always do it all and did.
The photo that you see of me
is not me—
my season overshadowed
by plough shares
and the gun
those coppers
thought they had us
on the run and did—
darker still the shadow
of my eternal captain’s gun.
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
