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In the Senate, a very queer notion of free speech
Sep 20 2024
2 mins
Researchers posit an irrefutable link between suspensions and incarceration. A harder look reveals this simply isn't true
Sep 19 2024
14 mins
Used as cudgels in divorce actions, domestic violence orders all too often reward perjurers and ruin innocent lives
Sep 19 2024
36 mins
Ulysses for Italians
“I guess the man’s a genius, but what a dirty mind he has, hasn’t he?”
—Nora Joyce (James Joyce’s wife, on Molly Bloom’s sexy 60-page monologue at the end of Ulysses)
I was a Flower of the mountain no
when I put the rosemary in my hair like
the Calabrian girls used
or shall I wear a red no
and how he kissed me under
the wall and I thought well
as well why him when there’s another
and then I asked him with my eyes
to not ask again no
and then he asked me would I no
to say no my garlic blossom
and first I squeezed my hands around
his throat no
and pushed him away from me so
he could feel my breath all onions no
and his heart was going all vafanculo
and no I said no I won’t NO!
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
