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The Arabs lost in1948 and have since used a motley collection of Circassian, Turkish, Jordanian, Syrian and Lebanese Arabs, renamed Palestinians in 1967, to ceaselessly prosecute the original war of rejection
Sep 11 2024
8 mins
It's hard to believe the attention paid to Raygun's Paris absurdities, but there may be deeper lessons in that writhing and posing
Sep 10 2024
10 mins
From a perspective of some eighty years it is possible to misunderstand or underestimate the intensity of the fears—but also the hopes and aspirations—of the British people as they faced up to another colossal existential challenge, less than a full generation after what, it was now suddenly clear, had only been the first world war
Sep 10 2024
11 mins
The Politics of Grievance: review
Ten years unread under the bed, a few days on Amazon Kindle, and now a review.
A new look at colonial Sydney
by Michael Duffy
History is often written by the winners, and early Australian political history has generally been portrayed as the triumph of bold democrats over reactionary, even dictatorial, governors.
Michael Connor’s PhD thesis [The Politics of Grievance] looks at the 1820s, especially the governorship of Ralph Darling, and shows how Darling was a lot better than he’s often shown, and his foes such as William Wentworth a lot more self-interested and even dishonest.
By spending time with many previously unacknowledged primary sources, Connor shows how misinformation has contributed to the bias too often found in accounts of this period.
The book is a lively and valuable corrective to almost two centuries of error.
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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
