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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
Our Treacherous Garden of Earthly Delights
Recently, an unhappy person, who has been living on the fringes, sent a message to her friends that the darkness was lifting. She now understands the truth about herself, she knows the source of her problems and how to overcome them. She must love herself. She deserves happiness. She is re-programming her life, setting out to find earthly delights and to get rid of the demons within her.
Her message brought to mind a frightening picture of delights and demons in people’s lives, painted some five hundred years ago. A memory of that painting seems to have connected itself, not only to the unhappy woman, but also to two other modern people re-programming their lives. To find that connection, one must go back in time and space to see the picture, the world in which it was created, and the meaning it expressed.
The painter was Hieronymus Bosch (left), known in his own time as Jheronimus van Aken, or Jerome in English. He was born around 1450 and died in 1516. Little is known of…
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
