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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
Dan Guenther: Notes from a Cronulla Homecoming
Notes from a Cronulla homecoming
Yearning for the places of our youth
we followed a path
held permanent in our hearts.
What we found
was as impermanent as the thawing tundra,
our favorite pub rebuilt into high rise condos.
Skateboarders
wheeled down Cronulla’s Esplanade, reckless,
and in tune with their own celestial music.
No doubt the universe is speeding up,
with yesterday’s longings filling the emptiness
for those left behind.
Tonight the news reports two white pointers
consumed a humpback calf off Kurnell,
churning the whale-bloodied sea into burgundy froth;
And we who once danced before bonfires on the beach
stroll in the here and now under Washingtonia palms,
where memories of our old passions mean everything.
Dan Guenther
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
