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Used as cudgels in divorce actions, domestic violence orders all too often reward perjurers and ruin innocent lives
Sep 19 2024
36 mins
The vice-presidential candidate, like many former critics, came to accept Trump was ahead of the curve on economic nationalism
Sep 18 2024
17 mins
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
Quadrant’s new editor
Seriously, I’m going to complain to someone. Quadrant has appointed a new editor and no one bothered to tell me.
The first I heard was when the ABC, that’s Australia’s taxpayer funded national broadcaster, was reporting on a media inquiry which has something to do with accuracy in reporting.
Anyway, who is this Robert Mann [sic] and when did he take over? And what happened to Keith?
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Media inquiry hearings begin
SAMANTHA DONOVAN: Well one of the first to be called to make a submission this morning was the professor of politics at the La Trobe University, Robert Mann. Professor Mann is a regular commentator in the media and attracted quite a bit of attention with an article he recently published in the journal Quadrant, which he edits.
He argued in that piece that it’s indefensible that one company, News Limited, owns 70 per cent of the newspapers circulating in Australia. He said it was a laughable situation.
Source: The World Today
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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
