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Used as cudgels in divorce actions, domestic violence orders all too often reward perjurers and ruin innocent lives
Sep 19 2024
36 mins
The vice-presidential candidate, like many former critics, came to accept Trump was ahead of the curve on economic nationalism
Sep 18 2024
17 mins
The punditocracy won't admit that, when it comes to Trump's sharp tongue, he's a novice compared to, say, Paul Keating
Sep 18 2024
4 mins
Watching
Wristwatches on her ankles, two each leg
Metal-stretch bands worn bracelet and high-arm
Sixty-plus, shift-dress flapping from bone-peg.
We sit, three high-school girls minding cool charm,
“You are so beautiful,” she says to us,
“Wish I had had a daughter just like you.”
My two friends watch her: stained dress, hair a muss
Rush off to class, struck-dumb: old face, hands true
I sit hooked by praise, and her grip on time
Those small hearts ticking “always yours” appeal …
Thirty years later, childless, out of time
I watch males look past me to seek new deal
All men’s watches hugging her legs and arms
Like motorised muscles—all date, warm palms
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
