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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
‘COVID stable’? Only in the Augean sense
So what happens next year? The current resurgence of COVID-19 in the northern hemisphere as its winter approaches should be sounding alarms in Australia. It is obvious the virus will continue to pose a threat to public health here until mid-2022 at the earliest. Even if a viable vaccine is discovered in the next three months, it will take at the least another two years for sufficient quantities to be manufactured and distributed to inoculate much of Australia’s population.
What do the federal and state governments therefore propose doing? Our political leaders talk of the COVID-19 pandemic as if it is much like heavy flooding, a run of bushfires or sudden drought, another nasty but one-off seasonal event that will not extend into 2021. After that, the COVID-19 situation will recede to some sort of manageable stability and we can all get on with it once more.
That mistaken assumption underpinned Australia’s entire federal Budget delivered this past week: things will…
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
