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A chant you won't hear: 'What do we want? Nuclear! How much? Lots! When? Now!'
Oct 07 2024
4 mins
It's not just free speech they aim to curtail, it's also our right to rejoice in national landmarks
Oct 07 2024
5 mins
Norway’s pride in its democracy has been tainted by the May recognition of Palestine
Oct 07 2024
9 mins
Nigel Jackson: ‘Green Passage’
Green Passage
The Patch General Store
A mighty arboreal surge across the road
Of masterful trees, far surpassing in their height
Our small humanity, suddenly uplifts my heart,
As we sit at The Patch café and wait for lunch.
The whole world is framed by their majestic rush
Of foliage that seems to brush the sky’s sea.
I notice then the stretch of mown lawn
Bending away into the garden’s hidden deeps.
I’d like to tread its soft embrace and find
In my green passage otherwhere, a different
And elusive garden taking me away from here.
Unseen yet seeable from a side glance, it waits.
Nigel Jackson
Many will disagree, but World War III is too great a risk to run by involving ourselves in a distant border conflict
Sep 25 2024
5 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
