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A Sydney-based academic and columnist for the Nine rags sets out to explain the US to Australians. It's not a pretty picture
Sep 20 2024
8 mins
The philospher began with the conviction 'the only human activity that seems to have any importance' is the great cosmic 'why?'
Sep 20 2024
24 mins
In the Senate, a very queer notion of free speech
Sep 20 2024
2 mins
Their ABC, for now
It could have been Tony Jones turning to a prostitute for the national broadcaster’s very first appraisal of Baroness Thatcher’s life and times, or Barrie Cassidy chuckling with his mates at Insider‘s token conservative on a pleasant Sunday morning.
Or it might have been another serve of provocative obscenity or mocking sacrilege from Aunty’s purported comics, specialists in contempt for the tragically unhip residents of Taxpayer Land.
But, no, none of those. This week it was Virginia Trioli’s turn to remind us just how large a ball of arrogant, nasty ignorance can be purchased for a mere $1.2 billion a year.
They’ll keep it up, of course, unless encouraged to do better.
The morning of September 15 would be a very good date to begin the lesson.
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
