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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
Nana Ollerenshaw:
Christmas Mangoes
Christmas brings mangoes
round, pendulous
resplendent like breasts.
They look tempting to caress
and afterwards to eat
the sweet smooth flesh
sliding off the fingers,
mango after mango
in the summer heat,
a time of letting go.
But later comes a heaviness
a surfeit of the fruit
a drowning in excess.
Mangoes have become
a holiday that lasts too long,
a song that now has ended,
a wish to say goodbye,
to go back to the time before
those golden rows of mangoes
caught the eye.
Nana Ollerenshaw
Christmas Mangoes
Christmas brings mangoes
round, pendulous
resplendent like breasts.
They look tempting to caress
and afterwards to eat
the sweet smooth flesh
sliding off the fingers,
mango after mango
in the summer heat,
a time of letting go.
But later comes a heaviness
a surfeit of the fruit
a drowning in excess.
Mangoes have become
a holiday that lasts too long,
a song that now has ended,
a wish to say goodbye,
to go back to the time before
those golden rows of mangoes
caught the eye.
Nana Ollerenshaw
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
