The Threepenny Kowhai Stamp Brooch
If I get lost someone will pick me up and post me.
I am already licked and stamped on my green lapel.
The brooch from Te Papa will see me safely home.
It’s 3D—as in LSD—pounds, shillings and pence.
Let us go out and do the passegiata on the waterfront.
If and when I get lost, you can slide me into the red box.
Of course I will be posted back into the past—
back to when kowhai was pronounced kowhai.
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
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2 mins