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The Republican presidential contender is an acquired taste. Given the alternative, it's a taste persnickety conservatives should make the effort to acquire
Sep 09 2024
4 mins
The proportions of Aboriginal children and young people placed in a relative or kin placement or with an Aboriginal foster carer have decreased, and the proportion of Aboriginal children who were reunified with their families has declined.
Sep 09 2024
17 mins
Upton Sinclair, the Forgotten Novelist
Soon it will again be the season of elections. It seems only yesterday that the United States of America elected a new president, followed by an inauguration as splendid, absent the elephants and chariots, as the coronation of a Roman emperor. It is only yesterday that we went again to the ballot box in this country. This is not however a contemplation upon the presidential election, nor indeed of our own. Rather, it is a reflection upon other momentous elections in the United States, the not dissimilar times in which they were conducted, and a contestant in, and chronicler of them.
I start as I will end, with the contestant and the chronicler, the neglected author Upton Sinclair. He wrote of many elections. They included those that returned F.D. Roosevelt as President, and of another, for the governorship of California, in which he was himself a contestant, which occurred during the Great Depression.
Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore in 1878 and died in New Jersey ninety years…
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
