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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
A Sweet, Simple, Sloganeering Sort of Girl
Monnnica, the business manager of the New Blak Greens, sighed quietly to herself as she opened the curtains to the party’s Melbourne shopfront. Another day, another day of boredom. This wasn’t really what she’d expected when she signed up to work with Australia’s most Blak, radical, feminist and warlike politician.
She put the kettle on, and while it came to the boil sorted the envelopes that had been pushed under the door. The usual three piles: Abuse (enormous), Donations (significant), and Incoherence (large).
For the next hour or so all was quiet. Monnnica (actually Monica, but revolutionary spellings were so necessary these days) did her Sudoku, had another tea, went next door for a Danish, rang her mum, and operated her online business – she ran a nice quiet earner on garden design. Around 11.15 a noisy rumble announced the arrival of the Blak Party leader, president for life and chairwoman of the board. Senator Thorpie, on the back of a bikie boyfriend’s…
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
