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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
Guinness reviewed
Guinness World Records 2010
After picking up my discounted copy at Kmart during the hysterical post-Christmas sales, I felt a welcome adrenalin rush. Tell me – how many books come with a warning?
“Attempting to break records or set new records can be dangerous,” I’m informed. “Appropriate advice should be taken first and all record attempts are undertaken at the participant’s risk.”
What’s so amazing about the Guinness World Records 2010 edition? For hair-raising facts the text is a screamer – and the book of the decade according to, well, the Guinness World Records 2010. (Fact: “124 million: copies sold, to date, of Guinness World Records – making it the world’s best-selling copyright book.”)
But what I respect is the marketing because – in my view – it breaks the world record for kitsch. Really. Who doesn’t appreciate a genuinely loud-green cover with silver Microgramma typeface, from the 1950s?
Inside there’s plenty of good news too:
Countess Elizabeth Báthory’s 399-year-old…
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
