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A chant you won't hear: 'What do we want? Nuclear! How much? Lots! When? Now!'
Oct 07 2024
4 mins
It's not just free speech they aim to curtail, it's also our right to rejoice in national landmarks
Oct 07 2024
5 mins
Norway’s pride in its democracy has been tainted by the May recognition of Palestine
Oct 07 2024
9 mins
Rod Moran: Casualty
Casualty
My father arrived safely home
From the carnage of Korea,
Surviving the frigid fox-holes,
Lunar shadows like bayonets,
An acetylene ice of starlight,
Where any silhouette was lethal,
A luminous bleed on the snow-drift,
A stark landscape mortar-pocked,
Screaming tsunamis of infantry
In shock-waves across the Yalu.
It was the dark nicotine stain
Along his gaunt trigger-finger,
Like an ironic campaign tattoo,
That finally ushered in death,
Years on in the marl of History,
Killed by the fume that warmed him,
Like cruel shrapnel in his breath,
In an under-belly of the world,
A deadly sub-Arctic of politics,
In his teenage years to heaven.
Rod Moran
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
