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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
Sarah Penwarden: ‘Liturgy of the hours’ and ‘Sounds’
Sounds
We stand on deck, the stink
of chip fat fills our nostrils,
rain smears the windows
in filmy layer on layer.
From here, we cruise past mountains,
our cathedrals, and in translucent light
we pass through lenses
of water until our eyes hurt.
You and I are sounding
without a known destination;
we sail through the break
and out to sea.
Sarah Penwarden
Liturgy of the hours
Shell pink, burnt orange, red:
hibiscus open, inching
towards light.
Cicadas sing:
wind stirs the fern fronds,
lifting the eaves of the house.
Exhaust fumes and jasmine drift—
the scent of an
Auckland afternoon.
Tug boat cuts a line
across a mirrored bay:
so suddenly night.
Sarah Penwarden
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
