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It's not just free speech they aim to curtail, it's also our right to rejoice in national landmarks
Oct 07 2024
5 mins
Norway’s pride in its democracy has been tainted by the May recognition of Palestine
Oct 07 2024
9 mins
I criticised the quality of Chinese electrical goods, then they came after me for revenge
Oct 06 2024
8 mins
Parallels of Lassitude
Parallels of Lassitude
Sky is earth’s striped verandah
and in the glasshouse
mountains rise up
like camels humping the horizon
across hemispheres and hinterlands
Ancients wander from a secure facility
names pinned to their backs
icy winds warmed at altitude
by a tropical waft of bougainvillea
birds thin-air swoon
In a rain forest crevasse
a total hybrid white-out
glaciers leave their junk behind
wanting to traverse the diptych
they’ll get it coming down
I can see it all from my chair
imagination contours the topography
the mountains stare each other down
no need to summit
stuck in my own temperate dead zone
Sheryl Persson
Many will disagree, but World War III is too great a risk to run by involving ourselves in a distant border conflict
Sep 25 2024
5 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
