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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
Sophia Nugent-Siegal: ‘In Passing’
In Passing
They have washed it away,
In a deluge,
They have trampled it under their feet,
They have brought it all to submission,
With the tide of the great sea,
They have cleansed the old foundations,
The harbour they have long laid waste,
They have left the fractured sunlight,
The woods, the trees, the hills,
No one now disturbs it,
No one cries aloud,
No ships to port may come
And the birds scream
At dawning.
Sophia Nugent-Siegal
The story for this poem is taken from a digression in the Iliad which states that, after the Trojan War, the Gods washed away the Greek fortifications and cleansed the land because they had been built in haste and without the necessary sacrifices.
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
