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In the Senate, a very queer notion of free speech
Sep 20 2024
2 mins
Researchers posit an irrefutable link between suspensions and incarceration. A harder look reveals this simply isn't true
Sep 19 2024
14 mins
Used as cudgels in divorce actions, domestic violence orders all too often reward perjurers and ruin innocent lives
Sep 19 2024
36 mins
Peaches, Somersby
I have felt firmness touching your mother’s, my daughter’s, belly
and finally the poem is finding its way to utterance
which has been with me even before she was born,
coming to me when we stayed on a magical orchard
where the family there were bright and blushed as their fruit
and I met their first-born in among gusts of mist
and cups of tea and great projects undertaken gladly
and that day walked out among the ripening peaches
immediately after a shower of rain,
wisps of mist clinging to branches weighed heavy and dripping,
and saw the shy curve of fruit firming into fullness,
their bloom the texture of the new-born, soft and radiant,
and the scent, the scent. The earth and its heaven-scent.
Russell Erwin
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
