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Our new G-G let slip an avalanche of heartfelt concern that recast our 236 years of indifference and guilt
Sep 17 2024
8 mins
The lust for power can be as great or greater driver of human effort as the good and humane
Sep 16 2024
11 mins
The promise a Covid royal commission has been renounced even as a sweeping inquiry is needed more than ever
Sep 16 2024
6 mins
Trevor Bailey: ‘Land Rites’
Land Rites
Through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as
a home, and in doing so we both amplify our joys
and find consolation for our sorrows. – Roger Scruton
Australia Day at dawn: in hat
and khaki shorts I front the sun
as oaten stubble’s trodden flat
beneath my boots. A neighbour’s run
with grazing sheep beneath my hat
brim starts beyond our wire. I stand
in prayer of sorts with chattering birds (at
once earnest, naïve) for wide brown land.
If home is where I hang my hat,
I’m home, and here I do not dread
the wrath of those insisting that
a home is where I hang my head.
Trevor Bailey
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
