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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
Sara Miller: ‘Legend’
Legend
After the foghorn sounded, I explained
to my friend that in mating season
the giant water wolf can deliver
his lamentations across two states,
and that upon hearing these, the local
waterfowl turn together on the axis
of their floating bodies to calculate
the distance in case fleeing is required.
You and I, on the other hand, grow wistful
and fall into a kind of stupor, because the wolf
is telling us of yearnings we ourselves have known,
and as mammals we are moved by that sound,
despite its more important role as a warning,
which we won’t be heeding, of everything
we fear and will never see coming,
and this is also part of the myth.
Sara Miller
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
