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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 Oxford Companion to Australian Politics, edited by Brian Galligan and Winsome Roberts
BEFORE YOU LEAP to the conclusion that this new Oxford Companion to Australian Politics (OUP, 2007, $99.95) will be, like some other Oxford Companions, contaminated by a soft leftism, you should know that I am one of the contributors. I may be only one of more than 200 contributors, with only three entries out of 400 (Political cartoonists; Political journalists; and Political correctness). But I am not the only one with some conservative deviationism in my CV.
The editors acknowledge that John Nethercote of the Menzies Research Centre (who did the entry on Conservatism) played “a major role in helping shape the project”. Other contributors include John Roskam (Liberal democracy) who runs the Institute of Public Affairs; Greg Melleuish (Australian political thought), recently a Visiting Fellow at the IPA; Ian Marsh (Think tanks), who once did a stint in the federal secretariat of the Liberal Party; Malcolm Mackerras (Pendulum), who did his bit years ago in Ash…
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
