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In the Senate, a very queer notion of free speech
Sep 20 2024
2 mins
Researchers posit an irrefutable link between suspensions and incarceration. A harder look reveals this simply isn't true
Sep 19 2024
14 mins
Used as cudgels in divorce actions, domestic violence orders all too often reward perjurers and ruin innocent lives
Sep 19 2024
36 mins
Salute to Baroque, Llewellyn Hall, ANU
Black clad figures
take up viola and violins
tanned and slick with shellac,
tuck curves under chins and bow flat bellies.
The lutenist plucks strings
pulled taut from stalk to tail
along the pale cut surface
of a theorbo pear.
Musicians sway in sound waves
at one with their reeds.
Breath escapes beneath fingers
so swift they blur the stave.
The cellist draws his lady back
to rest between splayed legs,
teases her neck and makes music,
all the while two-timing
with the woman at the harpsichord
who beats a floorboard tattoo.
The audience stills in the silence,
stirs from pause to applause.
Robyn Lance
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
