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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
Flt 370: A Riddle Veiled In Secrets
It’s at times like these that the ordinary citizen realises he doesn’t know whom to trust, and the search for the mysteriously ‘disappeared’ Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777-200ER is a case in point. Over the last fortnight the Malaysian government has been both secretive and evasive, reluctantly and parsimoniously parcelling out vital facts about the flight. Now it has been found to have deliberately not acted on a line of enquiry – and been prodded into action belatedly by the FBI.
Who would have guessed that Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah was estranged from his wife, although living under the same roof? Or that with the attention given to his home flight simulator, the government would have refrained from asking her questions about the captain’s state of mind — because of cultural concern for her bereavement? For a fortnight!
It’s been left to the Americans to press for answers that might give some inkling of motivation for what happened on the flight deck at…
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
