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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
At Fairfax, Misery Loves Company
You may not have noticed, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age being the sort of publications sensible people no longer read, but Fairfax Media’s journalists went all bolshie over the past few days and walked off the job. It was a display of curious logic: Its old media circulation and revenues are tanking, so why not chip away at what little remains by going on strike? At Fairfax, where CEO Greg Hywood takes home a reported $50,000 a week, it all makes as much sense as rewarding execs who have failed to reward shareholders.
How and why a once-sane media organisation reached such a state of addled misery is a question best left to corporate psychologists and other students of shared delusions – the fantasy in this instance being Fairfax editors’ fervent belief that the broader population subscribes to the same passions and monocular crusades as the cheap-to-hire twentysomething women’s studies grads who now populate the organisation’s news rooms. If former readers…
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
