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Join Quadrant for evenings to remember when Biggar, Blainey, Windschuttle and Cameron-Ash address colonialism and its legacies
Oct 16 2024
4 mins
The authors of the Race and Reporting Handbook must think 1984 is a how-to guide
Oct 16 2024
4 mins
The ballyhooed 'joy' lifting Democrat hopes after Kamala's convention coronation has gone. She is the reason why
Oct 16 2024
14 mins
The Nolans at St Kilda Pier
after Giggle Palace, 1949, by Sidney Nolan
The world was light on laughs
time to smile again
remember the family photo
just the three of you
a formal pose and formal clothes
leger-de-main, leger-de-leg
in short pants
suitable in serge
dressed in her best
illusions, allusion
backs to the horizon
blue sea-saws, meets sky
crowds would soon blow in
try to get ahead
land on their feet
over there it wasn’t giggles
and beer and skittles
to be king and queen
at the palace pier
on the bored walk
great for graffiti
for having a spray
can you paint an angry penguin
draw a line in the sand
of the lucky country
It seems the cardinal virtue in the modern Christianity is no longer charity, nor even faith and hope, but an inoffensive prudence
Oct 13 2024
4 mins
Many will disagree, but World War III is too great a risk to run by involving ourselves in a distant border conflict
Sep 25 2024
5 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
