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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
Stephen McInerney: Other Minds
Other Minds
The lives we live in other people’s minds
shadow our own, are cast by what we do—
and yet are different, too—not ours at all;
the lives we might have lived except we did
not knowing that we lived them, half aware
at best of the tempestuous affair
that never was, except as happened there
in someone else’s mind, half false, half true.
You watch those shadows play against the wall,
the moonlight in-between them; restless winds
hurrying through the trees, the moon half-hid;
and wonder at the lives that you have lived
not knowing that you lived them, in her mind,
half false, half true, and not to be believed,
because they weren’t—except that you were
behind her eyes, his fingers in her hair.
Stephen McInerney
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
