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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
Paul Connolly: ‘No Atonement’
No Atonement
He wondered why atonement didn’t work.
He logged the efforts of each dramatised
legation, but she remained anaesthetised
to his entreaties. He wondered. Should he shirk,
bunk off classes in the hard calculus
he’d set himself, where every injury
was weighed, quit, surpassed, more than offset? Each
and every gift he gave her, all the fuss
dissolved in recollection, never matched
what sat between them. That. And that was what,
a mound of pain, or an ever-seeping slot
he’d carved across her? He carried on, splashed
more cash on holidays, and made her cry
her clapped-out affect of joy. So they learned
hurt’s boundlessness, but lied to live, and earned
uneasy armistice, their own Versailles.
Paul Connolly
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
