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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
Of Cockroaches and Their ABC
I saw a cockroach on my carpet the other night. Nasty things which I like to avoid. Though I live in Sydney – ‘cockroach country’, according to Barry Humphries – I seldom see one in my flat. Yet, there again, the evening after, another Periplaneta australasiae in the same exact spot. I forgot to mention, I killed the first one with an abundance of insecticide spray and then flushed it away.
What’s going on, I thought. Coincidences I tend not to believe in when they happen to me and they are unpleasant. Was I targeted for a fate worse than a fate worse than death as Blackadder put it in one of his WWI episodes? No, apparently. Gerard, a friend of mine who worked as an industrial chemist, told me that roaches follow the pheromone of their fellows. Mystery solved. Phew!
The world is full of creepy crawlies, biting, stinging, devouring creatures? Are they all necessary? Obviously not. Species die out in large numbers over time and still we survive and thrive. When I say we…
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
