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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
The lust for power can be as great or greater driver of human effort as the good and humane
Sep 16 2024
11 mins
The promise a Covid royal commission has been renounced even as a sweeping inquiry is needed more than ever
Sep 16 2024
6 mins
NLA Book of the Week
From the National Library of Australia Bookshop.
Book of the Week
The Quadrant Book of Poetry
By Les Murray
These days, Les Murray observes, when poetic values are increasingly being seen as real enrichment, readers are turning to the few journals that nurture them. ‘Poetry ceases to be the subject matter and becomes an avenue of personal expression and hope. At a time of such turn-about in the life of magazines, a Quadrant anthology seems well overdue.’
From the second decade of his 20 years as literary editor of Quadrant, Les Murray presents a selection of the best verse he published between 2001 and 2010. It is a prodigious body of work: 487 poems by 169 authors.
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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
