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Used as cudgels in divorce actions, domestic violence orders all too often reward perjurers and ruin innocent lives
Sep 19 2024
36 mins
The vice-presidential candidate, like many former critics, came to accept Trump was ahead of the curve on economic nationalism
Sep 18 2024
17 mins
The punditocracy won't admit that, when it comes to Trump's sharp tongue, he's a novice compared to, say, Paul Keating
Sep 18 2024
4 mins
One-way conversation with a black swan, the Hunter Valley, 2012
Black Swan, begging for bread on our patio,
this morning we awoke to find the shared network had collapsed,
our technical processes fizzled-out due to flares erupting on the sun.
Like the Blue-cheeked Fly-catchers
tweeting one another in the Jacarandas,
we scrambled to find nothing remained intact
of the grand data cloud we once owned.
So, dark icon of Cygnus in sync with your own internal clock,
you remind me of how Orpheus the charmer
was transformed, sent to his death
by those unable to hear the divine music.
May you plod on to find bliss with a Hunter Valley Eurydice,
unaffected by the celestial noise,
wired for eternity to those seasonal cycles beyond clock time.
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
