Today Is Shopping Day
She turns to close the door,
this slow shuffling hut,
a snuffling, burrowing animal
hunched already to wear
the glancing insolence of a street,
hungry not for her.
And, as you too have guessed,
her mouth is a rosy blotch,
applied as carefully as she can.
Russell Erwin
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
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