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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
The Essential Things
Under-funded and under-read, the demise of Australian poetry is often predicted. Older names are disappearing through death and underproduction. Younger names may, or may not, give hope for the future—or a future that still bears some connection with the past.
Strangely, however, as successive small Australian poetry publishers (has there ever been any other kind?) go out of business, new ones, eternally optimistic, spring up to replace them. None of the publishers of these collections was around ten years ago, but they are clearly part of a tradition.
This review appears in the latest Quadrant.
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The Light Café by Diane Fahey is one of two new books from Liquid Amber Press in Melbourne. It’s her fifteenth collection since Voices from the Honeycomb in 1986 and well maintains a standard she has long since set herself.
Fahey’s work has varied somewhat in emphasis and manner over time, but she still clearly has the ability to set a project for herself…
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
