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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
The proportions of Aboriginal children and young people placed in a relative or kin placement or with an Aboriginal foster carer have decreased, and the proportion of Aboriginal children who were reunified with their families has declined.
Sep 09 2024
17 mins
Early Christmas for the ARC crew
The 2013 ARC funding outcomes have been announced! In the words of prominent gender studies activist and noted peer reviewer Groucho Marx, "Let joy be unconfined! Let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons, and necking in the parlour!" – especially if you’re researching climate change in a not-terribly-scientific discipline.
Here are some winners in the Discovery Project category – nice to see the Trekkies did well again this year, and it is actually reassuring to see an overall reduction in the number of non-science climate change projects. (NB: Be sure also to enter the search term "fortune telling" for a pleasant little surprise in Historical Studies:)
This project will investigate the ways in which climate policy in Australia and the United Kingdom deals with uncertainty in the timing of climate change and climate change impacts. It will evaluate the utility of various approaches to climate policy and the potential contradictions that…
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
