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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
R L Swihart: ‘Totem’ and ‘Completely Possible’
Totem
The young man says, “Alan can
do anything he wants”
“Not fly,” I say
The young man returns
a puzzled look
*
Alan has already crushed
the milk carton
with his heel
*
In a quiet garden, far from here and in a world
built with sentences from a good book,
Alan has left the runway and grazed
a pantleg on the garden wall
R L Swihart
Completely Possible
The migration continues. Continuous. Sporadic.
With mathematical complexity, wind
over sand
*
Ropes rubbing on leather backs. Pulling
on various ships: old ways, new
ways, ways
*
A castle or two on the hill. Bent letters framed
in doorways. Children sounding like traffic,
shucking spent yesterseconds
for usable parts
*
Three rapid-fire texts, just before midnight, screaming
Sagan, Rapidacion, and the coldest February
on record
*
The migration continues. Continuous. Sporadic.
With mathematical complexity, wind
over sand
R L Swihart
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
