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From a perspective of some eighty years it is possible to misunderstand or underestimate the intensity of the fears—but also the hopes and aspirations—of the British people as they faced up to another colossal existential challenge, less than a full generation after what, it was now suddenly clear, had only been the first world war.
Sep 10 2024
11 mins
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
Why the Governor-General is Australia’s Head of State
During the last weekend in August I attended a conference of the Samuel Griffith Society. Although the society has been in existence for only nineteen years, this was its twenty-third conference. As befits a national society, it aims to move its conferences around Australia, but this was its first conference to be held in Hobart. Members of the society showed their approval of the venue by making it our best-attended conference yet, and with more women and more young people than at our previous gatherings.
The Samuel Griffith Society, which bears the name of the first Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, was launched in July 1992 by its founding president and former Chief Justice of the High Court, Sir Harry Gibbs. The society’s aim is to uphold the Australian Constitution, and it was launched, in the words of Sir Harry, “in the hope that it will take an active part in the discussion of [the Australian Constitution] so that no change is made to the Constitution unless it…
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
