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A Sydney-based academic and columnist for the Nine rags sets out to explain the US to Australians. It's not a pretty picture
Sep 20 2024
8 mins
The philospher began with the conviction 'the only human activity that seems to have any importance' is the great cosmic 'why?'
Sep 20 2024
24 mins
In the Senate, a very queer notion of free speech
Sep 20 2024
2 mins
Sean Wayman: Gin-Soaked Love
Gin-Soaked Love
O why did you turn from my gin-soaked love?
My heart sends out its nightly petitions.
How could devotion be less than enough?
I think of you and your cruel rebuff—
the past comes back with savage insistence.
How could you turn from my gin-soaked love?
My passion was not some specious stuff,
it came with the strength of fever visions.
How could devotion be less than enough?
From such heights, I fell to this trough,
and now the nights pass with moist reminiscence.
How could you turn from my gin-soaked love?
Some idols have seen all their gold-lead flake off
but mine is still subject to fresh accretions.
How could devotion be deemed not enough?
While some still show pity, others now scoff,
yet still my heart sounds its dull repetitions.
O why did you turn from my gin-soaked love?
How could devotion be less than enough?
Sean Wayman
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
