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We are encouraged to rely more and more on government officials to do for us what we could equally well do for ourselves—and, maybe more importantly, not to do what might help us solve our own problems.
Sep 08 2024
10 mins
If we imagine a metric called the Pinocchio Scale, which measures the number of lies told by a politician as a percentage of his or her overall public statements, our current prime minister (for want of a better description), Airbus Albo, has moved well into uncharted territory.
Sep 06 2024
5 mins
All in Bed with Bob, Mistresses and Media Both
Bob Hawke, Prime Minister from 1983-91, was comprehensively outed this year for his lechery and shady financial deals by the Australian’s Troy Bramston. He calls his book, with no false modesty, Bob Hawke, Demons and Destiny. The Definitive Biography. Yes, given his prodigious research, it must be close to that.
I went to his excellent lunch talk in Melbourne the other day, which inspired me to plough through the 
book’s 720 pages. The tome created a flurry of media interest about Hawke’s avid sex life. But after recycling some lurid lines, the media caravan trundled on. They ignored the financial stuff which warrants a separate Quadrant article.
The media is basically leftist and Hawke was always one of their own. Even his ministerial colleagues used to describe the journos’ coverage of Hawke as “nauseating” (p707). Compare the Hawke treatment with the media hounding of the innocent Cardinal Pell , the never-charged Attorney-General Christian Porter and his…
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
