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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
The Green Pearl
for Nicholas
You found in sun-patch
the gleaming double-eye
of a dragonfly
pinched green bead
you held in the small clam
of your cupped hands
the bright sheen
water-smooth depth of it
found only in the like
of the patient
long lay down of—
the seventy times seven
times grace of nacre
applied as faithful prayer is
to the predicament
of nature. You
were adamant we make it
something precious
so we set it in
a little ruby ring box
to keep it safe—but when
we came back to it
the lustrous iridescence
had died as all
live fires do
confined in the small dark
compartments of our days.
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
