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In the Senate, a very queer notion of free speech
Sep 20 2024
2 mins
Researchers posit an irrefutable link between suspensions and incarceration. A harder look reveals this simply isn't true
Sep 19 2024
14 mins
Used as cudgels in divorce actions, domestic violence orders all too often reward perjurers and ruin innocent lives
Sep 19 2024
36 mins
Springtime; Those Two
Springtime
The days are longer and the leaves
are darker green.
“Spring returns each year,” the fado singer tells us,
“but innocence does not.”
My shadow leads me down the street
under the flowering trees.
Inside my head
my life’s cascading past
like people exiting a stadium
but that’s OK. You’re walking next to me.
Those Two
He’s let his hair go white
and she’s dyed hers jet black.
He’s let time run its course.
She’s stopped it in its tracks.
I watch them cross the street
with short, considered steps
holding each other’s hand
and it occurs to me
as time runs down for them
that they don’t notice it.
They like the way they are.
Change doesn’t change things much.
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
