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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
Ocean Dreaming
When a whale strands itself on a beach
they say a child has returned home.
The eyes tell the sadness of the deep.
And the mammang and the kila,
warm-blooded mothers suckle their young,
lead them into the chill of the ocean.
Caves comfort the spirit children
who hide and seek the dark walls
and call the waves to play.
They leave their bone and shell
in the brittle seascape, search the
wide blue for a place to land.
Silver gulls cry like the dead.
An invisible line links
the mainland to this island of birds.
Pelicans know, the osprey and sea eagle
guard it from the rocks above the waves.
And the whales and the dolphins
offer fins and tails to the children
so that they may return to the land,
rise out of the foam.
Penguin Island
off Rockingham
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
