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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
Rodney Purvis: ‘Woman, Sea and Myth’
Woman, Sea and Myth
No surprise that myth has woman rising
From the sea.
The white or ochre sand, her warm body,
The waves the colour of her eyes—
All weathers give all shades—
And salt for her tears.
I’m sure Botticelli
Fashioned Aphrodite’s hair
On those great wet skeins of brown and yellow kelp
You see enmeshed with sea-berries,
Washed up on the shore.
Pearl and shells her toe and finger nails;
And let sharp coral be
The reefs where all her hapless victims founder.
Let tracery
Of nerve and deep desire
And shadowed ebb and flow of feeling be
The sea-swung sea-fern, sea bush and anemone.
Rodney Purvis
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
