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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
Two Poems: 1
Addiction Song
Cold turkey is the only way to go.
Withdrawal isn’t something you can savour.
All smokers, coffee-heads and drinkers know:
cold turkey is the only way to go.
Now I’ve quit you, I dare not risk “hello”:
my resolution might begin to waver.
Cold turkey is the only way to go;
withdrawal isn’t something you can savour.
Herakles’ Other Labour
A lot of us know tales of Herakles
labouring twelve labours for renown.
Known less, his pregnant mother Alkmene’s
majestic child-bed feat: though she bore down,
Eileithiya, birth goddess, crossed her knees;
Nine nights of heaving hell until he crowned.
Epic. But who sings of deeds like these?
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
