In Memoriam
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After 80 years, DNA analysis has finally put a name to HMAS Sydney's 'Unknown Sailor', Able Seaman Thomas Clark. His was the sole body ever found from the doomed cruiser, which went the bottom after a point-blank gunnery duel with disguised German raider Kormoran. This is how he and 644 other Australians laid down their lives
November 19, 2021
8 mins
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Sir Roger was the greatest conservative thinker of our age, and will stand with Russell Kirk in the US and Michael Oakeshott in the UK as the modern go-to men of tradition, part of the distinguished line that stretches back to Edmund Burke and Alexis de Tocqueville
January 15, 2020
10 mins
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Scruton’s intellectual integrity made him a pariah in the eyes of 'all the people I knew'. These otherwise intelligent folk had turned their backs on a world he still revered, looking instead 'to Marx, Lenin, and Mao Zedong as their authorities ... in every area of human thought and action, art, literature, and music included'
January 14, 2020
28 mins
The latest
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It was the ever-polite Sir Roger's audacious mission to confront time and again the Left with humorous and intelligent critiques of its nostrums and dogma, and to detail their inevitably awful consequences. In uniting tradition and freedom, he provided a counter to the hysteria, fear, irrationality, lies, fallacies, self-delusion and groupthink of ideologues
January 14, 2020
6 mins
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The poet, essayist and wit was a Sydney Tech High schoolmate of rugby league's revered champion Reg Gasnier, who died in 2014 at 74. James penned this recollection a decade or so earlier, when the Prince of Centres had been reduced by the consequences of a brain tumor to a shadow of his old self
November 30, 2019
5 mins
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Poets and Quadrant contributors Joe Dolce and Marilyn Peck took up their pens upon hearing that leukemia had finally snuffed the light of a great man's genius. Here are their tributes, penned as the news of his passing led news bulletins and front pages
November 29, 2019
3 mins
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The news of Les Murray's death has stunned and dismayed those he mentored and published in Quadrant. Here are some of their verse tributes to the man hailed only recently by The Atlantic as 'the world's greatest living poet'
April 30, 2019
4 mins