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The AHRC's public face is ugly enough. Look under the rock and it gets much worse
Oct 05 2024
13 mins
The agency that hounded Bill Leak into an early grave isn't fussed by its staffers' support for Hamas
Oct 04 2024
19 mins
The Vance-Walz debate prompts a column that's more of a steaming pile
Oct 03 2024
3 mins
Some Clicks Beyond Manar
We lunched with three world citizens
some clicks beyond Manar.
Ten thousand trees unsleeved their bark
in draperies of light and dark,
where trade was brisk with fairy wrens,
October up to par.
We strolled with three wise heads, they showed
us peace beyond Manar,
where cumquats glowed like neon eggs,
a brown dog loped on sapling legs,
banksias, hatted à la mode,
served bees with savoir-faire.
We talked of making books and homes
light years beyond Manar.
Our talk, our listening had an essence
allowing each to show full presence,
for Eden’s in the chromosomes
Some clicks beyond Manar.
Alan Gould
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
