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A Sydney-based academic and columnist for the Nine rags sets out to explain the US to Australians. It's not a pretty picture
Sep 20 2024
8 mins
The philospher began with the conviction 'the only human activity that seems to have any importance' is the great cosmic 'why?'
Sep 20 2024
24 mins
In the Senate, a very queer notion of free speech
Sep 20 2024
2 mins
Transportation to America
William Henry was caught
stealing bread from a cart
seven years he got
transportation to America
for the crime of being poor
he was shackled to the floor
of a British man-o-war
transportation to America
many a shirtback was ripped
for the cat-o-nine whip
to the colonies they were shipped
transportation to America
there indentured as slaves
many met early graves
for the prison space they’d save
transportation to America
oh the sentence of gravest threat
that a prisoner could expect
short of hanging by the neck
transportation to America
during the Colonial War
Mr John Hancock swore
they’d be taking no more
transportation to America
where to put the convict waste?
then Lord Sydney made his case
New South Wales could replace
transportation to America.
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
