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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
Suzanne Edgar: Two Poems
Edge
In the sleepy midday quiet of the living room
I hear an intermittent murmur; a mutter.
A gale’s got under the heel of the front door,
making a quiet rumble, nothing more.
The door speaks of how it’s set between
my time inside the house and the world out there;
how a green and lifeless thing’s become the portal
of our days, has witnessed so much family lore
for thirty years. The slam of this wooden slab
signals my darling is home from the lakes and safe.
As a final chore each night he locks, before
striding down the darkened corridor
to me, reading late in the great warm bed.
We lie together, twinned in sleep, until
eager for news, I creep to open our door
and read the morning sky for what it holds in store.
Suzanne Edgar
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
