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In the Senate, a very queer notion of free speech
Sep 20 2024
2 mins
Researchers posit an irrefutable link between suspensions and incarceration. A harder look reveals this simply isn't true
Sep 19 2024
14 mins
Used as cudgels in divorce actions, domestic violence orders all too often reward perjurers and ruin innocent lives
Sep 19 2024
36 mins
Nana Ollerenshaw: Toothpick Woman
Toothpick Woman
The toothpick woman
left no footprints.
She ran in the shower
to get wet,
knitted herself into a scarf
before she pulled her body out.
Even a sneeze would make enough breeze
to knock her about.
People often thought
she wasn’t there.
She missed herself in the mirror
when she combed her hair.
At night her blanket hardly rose
above her nose.
But toothpick woman changed,
put on a little fat to fill her body in.
She cast a shadow now,
claimed a third dimension,
gloried to see a roundness
underneath her skin.
In her mind a fire burned
zeal and hope returned.
No one could guess
In the strangeness of her seasons
such exultation
for so small a reason.
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
