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A Sydney-based academic and columnist for the Nine rags sets out to explain the US to Australians. It's not a pretty picture
Sep 20 2024
8 mins
The philospher began with the conviction 'the only human activity that seems to have any importance' is the great cosmic 'why?'
Sep 20 2024
24 mins
In the Senate, a very queer notion of free speech
Sep 20 2024
2 mins
Waipukurau
It’s knocking at the door in my mind.
“See how the serpent dies on distant hills.”
That can only be the lazy coils evacuated
by the dare-devil crop dusting planes.
They looped and vanished before they landed.
This was where I lay among the straw—gumboots akimbo—
as the plump rat leaned up to sip from the water bucket
while the tease pony watched him complaisantly.
And the chaff cutting machine worked in fits and starts.
As the stallions raged in their stalls—fed high on oats—
they dragged me by the rope on their iron bit willy nilly to
the mating barn—and back again. Foaling followed.
The local ice cream was excellent.
That boy that I tormented—cold as—
when he wept something stirred in me.
Was it pity? No, I don’t know what it was.
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
