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Before Ian Fleming and all the other authors who have made heroes of the wrongly accused there was John Buchan's urbane Richard Hannay
Sep 21 2024
12 mins
At 75, I have achieved 'old age'. I welcome it and am glad about it and, with some reservations, intend to keep on growing older
Sep 21 2024
10 mins
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
On Hearing of Claire’s Death
I thought of onions first: how she taught
me when the best ones would be in,
tuned, as she was, to the seasons’ rhythms;
how when we watched new piglets
with their tiny snouts, she confided
she’d cried when her first ones
returned cold from the abattoir,
but had toughened up since
and planned to teach children
about farming.
Then with money tight and those dreams
on hold, she followed her boyfriend
to his parents’ Welsh farm—
just five months ago,
and I befriended this gap-toothed butcher
now anxiously watching me
beside the eggs I had been checking,
because life goes on, except
on the dark side of risk and chance
with its landscape of brake-screams,
crazed lights, crunch.
My basket slipped down and I cried;
then drove home under an ordered sky.
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
