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The punditocracy won't admit that, when it comes to Trump's sharp tongue, he's a novice compared to, say, Paul Keating
Sep 18 2024
4 mins
Our new G-G let slip an avalanche of heartfelt concern that recast our 236 years of indifference and guilt
Sep 17 2024
8 mins
Memory – it’s a Left thing
Remember Australia Day 1988?
I do. I was among the two million spectators around Sydney Harbour. It was great day. Someone else who was there was academic David Andrew Roberts.
In a new book, Turning Points in Australian History (UNSW Press), Roberts writes on “The Arrival of the First Fleet and the [note the scare quotes] ‘Foundation of Australia’”.
Roberts remembers that he was present on the shores of Sydney Harbour “among the 100,000 [sic] heat-stroked crowd”:
My outstanding memories, next to sunburn and claustrophobia, are of Aboriginal protestors greeting the ships with shrill slogans and threatening gestures.
Perhaps he forgot to slip, slap, slop.
I thought you might like to know.
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
