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he key to understanding the global political situation at the […]
Sep 22 2024
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Unlike the renewables industry, its green rent-seekers and Chris Bowen, numbers tell the truth
Sep 22 2024
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Before Ian Fleming and all the other authors who have made heroes of the wrongly accused there was John Buchan's urbane Richard Hannay
Sep 21 2024
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Extract from the latest Australian Historical Association newsletter:
In this first newsletter for 2011, there are links to the AHA Regional Conference 2011 website and to the conference poster that can be downloaded and printed for departmental notice boards. The Australian Women’s History Forum is advertising both Women’s History Month with its theme of Women in the Business of Food, and International Women’s Day Events and in this newsletter there is a link to the new Australian Women’s History Network website.
At Stoke-on-Trent in November, the Tiles and Architectural Ceramics Society is holding its conference: ‘Exporting Stoke and Beyond: Tiles and Architectural Ceramics in the World Context’ and in December, a conference entitled ‘Honour Killing across Culture and Time’ will be held at the Australian National University. There is information about a petition to support the Female Factory Precinct Action Group, with the aim of having the Parramatta Female Factory Precinct returned to the people of Australia.
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
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