Latest Articles
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
Visits with My Wicked Charmer Dad
Visits with My Wicked Charmer Dad
My wicked charmer dad
and I are on the beach
seagulls crying above swoosh of waves
I lean over his shoulder
my brown child’s arms around his neck
a girl has come to my house
a girl as loud as sky
he takes me by my ear handles
flips me over his shoulder
he could do magic like that
my wicked charmer dad
my wicked charmer dad
had a Scottish girlfriend who
did a snake dance
at the Tivoli in her undies
she called me wee lass
I told my mother
all the ladies at the Tivoli
talked about their tits
in the dressing room
tits are alright said my mother
but its better to keep them
where you can’t see them
then she gave me a slap
I was becoming too much like
my wicked charmer dad.
Lin van Hek
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
