Latest Articles
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 Right Angle
He checks himself out in the dusty mirror
beneath the low-watt bulb in the entrance hall.
Not bad, he says, and lightly touches
his hair with the tips of his fingers.
Then standing at the bus stop, feet in the slushy snow,
he turns for the view in a shop window.
Not bad, he says, finding the right angle,
and he straightens his tie.
The bus is crowded as always, and stale
with its history of flatulence and sweat.
It takes him to an office where those who attend his days
attach and remove paperclips from duplicate forms.
But every now and again, after micturition,
he looks up from the soap-scummed sink to a small glass.
How grateful he is for this occasional reminder
in a world so entirely as it otherwise is.
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
