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It's hard to believe the attention paid to Raygun's Paris absurdities, but there may be deeper lessons in that writhing and posing
Sep 10 2024
10 mins
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
Age publishes Bolt
Yesterday The Age gave Andrew Bolt a top story bashing, today they published his Letter to the Editor.
Free speech at stake
I WRITE regarding your report ”Bolt link to racist reviews of book” (12/4). When I linked to the discussion on the Amazon site of Anita Heiss’ Am I Black Enough for You?, not one comment I saw then was "openly racist".
Even now, it’s hard to find any that are, and not one was cited in your article. Most are instead about the very point I had made: that Heiss’ book asks a question now incapable of being debated openly in Australia, making the US-based Amazon site a reminder of our own loss of free speech.
Your report is a flip dismissal of something that should be treated with respect, given that without free speech we are nothing.
Finally, I note your journalist contacted Heiss for comment, but not me. How low.
Andrew Bolt, Southbank
Source: The Age
See also: “An Open Letter To Saffron Howden” here…
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
