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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
Victorian Paper Trails
Robert Murray, Sandbelters: Memories of Middle Australia (Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2011), 211 pages, $34.95.
A regular contributor to Quadrant on history and politics, Murray at eighty maintains a prolific output. His landmark works were The Split: Australian Labor in the Fifties (1970) and 150 Years of Spring Street (2007) on Victorian state governments. But Murray has written a dozen other histories of institutions, places and industries, and he has at least one more big-’un in the pipeline.
His aims with Sandbelters are modest. He builds a patchwork portrait of his hard-scrabbling family milieu, capturing the small significant details of Victorian country (Glenloth, in the Mallee region in Victoria’s north-west) and coastal upbringing, when the suburb of…
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
