Sunday Afternoon …
Africa has come to Kings Park
the families could have walked here
three billion years ago when Ur
was the only continent on earth.
Women with bright cloth
wrapped about their heads
men saunter where they will
kids are rolling down the hill.
A young black man says when asked
—I am from Tanzania.
He rhymes Tanzania with Australia.
We are all walking on the English sward.
And upside down as it likes to be
another African cousin, a Boab tree,
trucked in from Warmun in the Kimberley
begins to sprout in the Two Rivers Lookout.
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