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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
Preparations
They were married after appropriate preparations,
and one of those preparations related to him. The wedding was brilliant, the bride resplendent in white, the bridesmaids nearly as comely, the groomsmen spruce, the groom bright-eyed, as he had every right to be. The soprano, we told each other, could actually sing. Oh, all the appropriate preparations had been made, and one of the preparations pertained to him. Hours later, after the feasting, the dancing, the drinks, after felicitations suggestive, profound, we shouted them off to their car, besprinkled with rice. Then we laughed or cried as the two of them got into gear and neared a corner en route to their promised lives. And he? Was he downcast and grave as they jolted from sight? In truth he was neither of these, because—after all— one of the preparations had reference to him.
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
