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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
Roger G McDonald: ‘Change here’
Change here
The platform announcement said
The service would terminate
At Upper Anxiety,
Stopping most stations ahead.
Change here for Longing, or wait
For the bus link to Forget.
I got off at Duplicity
To catch one to Regret.
The change from a familiar line—
We’d moved to Necessity,
A nail-chewed, run-down kind of place—
Meant halts at Gloom and Steep Decline,
Ingratitude, Perversity,
And deserted, lonely stops
Like Dishonour and Disgrace
Where weeds are the only crops.
We rattled past Ignominy,
Discredit and Despair.
I slept through Lies and Defection
But woke at Disharmony.
A few more stops and I’d be there.
Inspectors boarded at Blame.
I fled to avoid detection,
And trudged the miles home to Shame.
Roger G McDonald
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
