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The Republican presidential contender is an acquired taste. Given the alternative, it's a taste persnickety conservatives should make the effort to acquire
Sep 09 2024
4 mins
The proportions of Aboriginal children and young people placed in a relative or kin placement or with an Aboriginal foster carer have decreased, and the proportion of Aboriginal children who were reunified with their families has declined.
Sep 09 2024
17 mins
Stone Diary
Yes, you got blood out of me alright—
lucky I don’t live in a glass house,
although an Olympic athlete would struggle
to throw anything as far as you are from me now.
Only the crows can imagine my surprise
when your heart grew more than cold—
who was it cast first? Did we really turn over
every possibility? Was it so important for you to be moss-free?
You used sticks to great effect, rendered what was ours
a pile of broken bones, a soup made of water.
Two love-birds sundered with a single missile,
the ending was fixed and fired as a statue.
When we left our love, it wasn’t just dead
and when I say I was sober, I mean, I was sober.
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
