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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
The Chipped Limoges Plate
Because of the chip that mars its border
a midday sandwich can sit on it, a pear
or a slice of cheese, several cream crackers
and I can eat off it happily, aristocratically.
It is the advantage of chipping and flaws:
the beautiful damaged thing, adored
undoubtedly by someone who dropped it, swore
put it back under the perfect plates
so it might never be used again. Or
took it to their room, placed on it
their fake pearls, their insignificant jewels
hair clips, a chocolate wrapped in foil
and from it took, not just the border
in darkest gold-foiled maroon
but the Fragonard romance at its heart
of male and female bringing flowers.
Elizabeth Smither
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
