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Keeping Australia a pleasant, prosperous country should be immigration policy's only goal. National self-interest, in other words
Oct 13 2024
3 mins
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
Join Quadrant for evenings to remember when Biggar, Blainey, Windschuttle and Cameron-Ash address colonialism and its legacies
Oct 12 2024
4 mins
The Waiter and the Tourist in Turkey
The waiter in Kalkan
at a café overlooking the sea,
the Mediterranean
to be precise
and a touch particular,
the waiter asks,
pointing to my diary,
What you do in book?
I show writing
and the Blue Mosque
quickly sketched in Istanbul.
Ah, he says. Artist. He was kind.
I go to art school for one year.
You know caricatures? I like.
Will you draw in my book?
No. No. It does not always work.
We talk. We know this language.
Images, words will not always come
when sought
but may appear unasked,
when so happy or sad or alone in your head.
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
