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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
May Day Message
Sydney, 1 May 2273
Dear Tom,
I have received what must be a fragment of a message from you but I was only able to distinguish the letter K and the word Rudd from a very badly battered time warp bottle.
I assumed, given you interest in the affairs of state that this must be the Australian Prime Minister in the early part of the twenty first century.
I have discussed this with some learned historians particularly the Whitlam Professor of Economic History at the Australian Central Technical University. It was a peculiar time in Australia and it reminded him of the Roman Republic before the coming of the Emperors. Evidently there were triumvirates of rulers and occasionally the ruling party would bring in a dictator but only for a short spell before retirement to the back benches.
I really cannot determine the path of Kevin Rudd. It is clear that he was Prime Minister but very little remains on record for his government and its achievements.
It was evidently a time of turbulent…
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
