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A Sydney-based academic and columnist for the Nine rags sets out to explain the US to Australians. It's not a pretty picture
Sep 20 2024
8 mins
The philospher began with the conviction 'the only human activity that seems to have any importance' is the great cosmic 'why?'
Sep 20 2024
24 mins
In the Senate, a very queer notion of free speech
Sep 20 2024
2 mins
On a Day of Power-line Maintenance
Notified duly—of course, as was their duty.
No excuses—I’d forgotten, of course.
So, this morning: … Off.
The radio mid-word,
The fridge slurred and shuddered.
There were trees blowing about outside,
Magpies among the split and bowing crowns,
Crows farther off. And farther off.
As if air off snow had chilled all about
This house was fresh, scoured.
Now I could hear its little noises,
Murmurings, this only child talking to itself,
And thought how like those of the body
When the hours are a country hard under moonlight,
We like a small animal in hiding, listen.
We, strangers listening to the syllables of another tongue.
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
