Obituary
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The Society of Jesus mourns the death of Father Gerald (“Gerry”) O’Collins SJ AC. Fr O’Collins died in Melbourne on Thursday 22 August at the age of 93. He had been a Jesuit for 74 years and a priest for 61 years.
August 31, 2024
5 mins
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Perhaps it was inevitable that the great-grandson of Arthur Waugh, grandson of Evelyn, and son of Auberon would be a writer. Alexander, who died last week at 60, certainly inherited eloquence, intelligence, wit and, as an admiring obituarist has put it, 'a patrilineal inability to pass an applecart without giving it a shove’
July 29, 2024
19 mins
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We mourn the passing of Quadrant contributor, William Rubenstein.
July 11, 2024
3 mins
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It is with the deepest sadness that I must advise of the tragic passing of David Martin Jones. Intellectually brilliant, a good and kind man, and a great friend to Quadrant, David had so much more to give the world. He will be sorely missed by so many, not least our readers
April 17, 2024
4 mins
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No obituary has bothered to note that, in addition to his hypocrisy, Pilger viewed al-Qaeda’s 9/11 terrorist atrocity with unmistakable giddiness. 'Their distant voices of rage are now heard,' he announced, 'the daily horrors in faraway brutalised places have at last come home.' America, in other words, deserved precisely what it got
January 8, 2024
5 mins
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Max Suich, one in a succession of gifted Fairfax editors […]
March 30, 2017
18 mins
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In his witty and eminently readable memoir, Privilege and Pleasure […]
January 1, 2017
15 mins
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Mrs Thatcher—and it seems more appropriate on her death to […]
May 1, 2013
8 mins
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Roger Sandall, the editor of Quadrant in 1988-89, died after […]
October 1, 2012
21 mins
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It is a privilege indeed to share some thoughts and […]
September 29, 2010
10 mins
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John Peter Maynes OAM, who died in April, was a […]
September 1, 2009
10 mins
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