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The man behind X has been obliged to bow before a censorship regime we may soon see in Australia
Oct 10 2024
11 mins
To plumb the depths of our cultural crisis, we must examine our institutions, especially universities.
Oct 10 2024
11 mins
A chant you won't hear: 'What do we want? Nuclear! How much? Lots! When? Now!'
Oct 07 2024
4 mins
Pulse
A night so still I can hear my pulse like
some distant machinery breathing, the beat
of its pistons teasing my ear, my brain.
A disturbance in the mind engenders there
a pause, a looking inwards through windows
of sound carried on waves of silence in nights
harried by this brush with blood forcing
a passage through rivers clogged with mud.
Where once steamers paddled, corpuscles in
the vein of country, now sandbanks fatten, the flow
is turgid with pools where algae blooms; and then
in the still night, the beat of a pump, sound
and symbol of illness in a drying land. Listen:
bruised by this pulse, we can only wonder when.
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
