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Stand for Nothing, Fall for Anything
Call me naive, but the malaise afflicting Australian politics would go a long towards finding a remedy were the major parties to clearly distinguish themselves from each other.
There’s a common frustration, or so it seems to me and, apparently, those voters who have lately favoured independents above Labor and Coalition candidates. On both sides of the aisle there is discontent amongst supporters. For example, the Labor Party insists that they won’t incentivise the miserable trade in human trafficking which flourished under their previous policies, frustrating and infuriuating open-borders leftists who want every refugee application approved. On the other hand, the Liberal Party insists they can be trusted with the nation’s economy, and yet their borrowing and spending has frustrated conservatives opposed to the immoral theft which is intergenerational debt.
My conservative friends hold little hope for Scott Morrison being the Liberal Party Prime Minister that 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
2 mins