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It seems the cardinal virtue in the modern Christianity is no longer charity, nor even faith and hope, but an inoffensive prudence
Oct 13 2024
4 mins
Join Quadrant for evenings to remember when Biggar, Blainey, Windschuttle and Cameron-Ash address colonialism and its legacies
Oct 12 2024
4 mins
Australians, especially those who trust the ABC, will be surprised how this heartland American sees Trump, the nation and world
Oct 12 2024
12 mins
River out of Africa
The map of the world was etched into the walls
of the candle, this fat candle burning lower
into its self-made pit; and then awash with wax
began to drown in its own liquifaction
—until it found a way at last to melt a gap
in one pale wall. Immediately, the molten
refugees came pouring out: to stay was to see
the flame snuffed out, to go was to slide
into the dark hoping to settle somewhere cooler,
where refugees could settle undisturbed, a river
out of Africa like the first naked apes becoming
pale and waxen and spreading slowly into the cold.
It seems the cardinal virtue in the modern Christianity is no longer charity, nor even faith and hope, but an inoffensive prudence
Oct 13 2024
4 mins
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
