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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
Rod Moran: ‘Blue Wren’ and ‘Lunar Noir’
Blue Wren
Darting in, then out,
Camera-shutter instants,
A luminous wren
In the sunlight’s dapple,
An iridescent flare
Igniting the day’s expanse,
A paradox of colour:
Ice-blue like a floe,
The day’s heat rising,
Eyes trimmed in quartz,
Jade and aqua traces,
A spectrum of starlight,
Other feathers coloured coal,
Dense as folded seams,
Like anthracite strata,
Sub-metallic sheening,
Yet a body like balsa,
Gymnastic and buoyant,
As light as a breeze,
Weighted with beauty.
Was it a blue wren—
With zig-zag vectors,
An erratic inertia—
That tilted the Earth’s axis?
Rod Moran
Lunar Noir
On rain-slicked back-streets,
A skid of blood-red moonlight—
Raymond Chandler’s plot.
Rod Moran
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
