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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
Truffles!
She popped the cork on the jar
and we smelt them. Their scents rushed through
every part of us. Only two
ever did that before: saffron,
durian. Why try to conjure
what we felt? Intoxication
followed and remained while we dined –
their splinters and shavings amok
like number 6 shot in a duck,
through every course – but not a hint
of taste prevailed, nor could remind
with the rapturous scents allowed
to rule: between us, in and out,
breathing through every molecule.
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
