Left Forum: Care on the Left
My parents were Welsh, and other Left excuses
The Australian has been running a series in its opinion page on where the left is at in Australia and, to be frank, I doubt regular readers have been awaiting each instalment of ideological exposition with nail biting excitement. It has all been a bit "ho hum here we go again". There are now so many areas where the left is indistinguishable from the right, that these terms are pretty meaningless. Even the terms conservative and progressive, which are often employed to describe differences on social issues don’t have a great deal of meaning. I have encountered too many lefties with whom I have more in common on the family and social front than plenty of so called conservatives. I find the libertarian right just as aggravating and immature as the didactic left of my youth. But two contributors interested me. Julia Gillard, undoubtedly the most successful woman in Australian politics and definitely one of the more intelligent whose…
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