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Andrew Bolt wrote this and this…
Larissa Behrendt wrote this:
Paddy Gibson wrote this:
@LarissaBehrendt @rhiannapatrick ha! Being offensive pays. BessP and her white husband make a $packet$ doing ‘cultural awareness’ for NTER 4:12 PM Apr 11th via Twitter for iPhone in reply to LarissaBehrendt
John Birmingham wrote this:
The punitive powers of the law are inappropriate responses to his [Andrew Bolt’s] witless jabbering. We call upon the Law to save us from genuine threats. The appropriate response to Bolt is disdain and mockery and the poking of his readership with sharp sticks in their yellow, suppurating eyeballs.
Literary Prizes
Andrew Bolt is on trial under the Racial Discrimination Act.
Larissa Behrendt (NSW 2010 Australian of the Year) has just been appointed head of the Gillard government’s review of indigenous higher education.
Paddy Gibson remains with the Jumbunna centre at the University of Technology Sydney.
John Birmingham continues to publish in the Sydney Morning Hatred.
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