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Our new G-G let slip an avalanche of heartfelt concern that recast our 236 years of indifference and guilt
Sep 17 2024
8 mins
The lust for power can be as great or greater driver of human effort as the good and humane
Sep 16 2024
11 mins
The promise a Covid royal commission has been renounced even as a sweeping inquiry is needed more than ever
Sep 16 2024
6 mins
Paul Williamson: ‘Sunny Beach Time’
Sunny Beach Time
Surfers ride a southern break
towards the crescent of yellow sand
that stretches between low headlands
built by ancient lava flows.
On the beach an old man, grey beard
walks his old dog, grey flecked muzzle.
The track to the barren headland
passes a white survey pole, dated 1974
a time when holiday cottages surged
along this Sapphire Coast.
More buildings followed in fashion.
Now blue wrens, grey fantails and bright spotted pardalotes
flit between beachside scrub and house gardens.
Coastward from the Princes Highway
past kilometres of melaleuca and eucalypt
caravan parks with micro cottages spread half-filled
except for holiday times
when families still weave fishing and swimming
into sunny seaside memories.
Paul Williamson
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
