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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
Death by silence
Listen to Shelley Gare in conversation with Quadrant editor Keith Windschuttle:
… we have Quadrant, thank goodness …
What has surprised me is that by being a bit of a questioner I’ve had much more acceptance from the right than from the left.
Quadrant, for instance, gave me a very nice review for the Triumph of the Airheads and I don’t think that the book was ever reviewed in some of the more left wing journals and yet it questioned left and right equally.
So for me, as someone who grew up as a left winger, and now think of myself as a person who has opinions, this has all been very surprising.
Read Shelley Gare’s Quadrant essay “Death by Silence in the Writers’ Combat Zone” 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
