English literature and criticism matter for many reasons, but above all because it transmits culture
Feb 02 2026
6 mins
Their glory days long gone, the Hoodoo Gurus have regained attention by ordering Pauline Hanson to stop playing their songs at her rallies
Feb 02 2026
4 mins
The getting of Trump was in full swing when Quadrant ran this review. Six years on, it's clear Biden's handlers only grew bolder
Feb 02 2026
13 mins
When Queen Victoria died 64 years had passed since the last royal funeral, so no one knew quite how to go about interring a monarch. It didn't go well
Feb 01 2026
15 mins
NEWS
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Keynes’ crackpottery stretches from Treasury to the Reserve Bank, to most private sector economists. It is no surprise inflation is backFebruary 1, 2026
6 mins
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When an author cannot discern tragedy from melodrama, the decision to abandon novels altogether might seem the wisest courseJanuary 31, 2026
16 mins
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Will the new establishment succeed in suppressing Pauline Hanson's animated movie? They're trying but, like every Left crusade, it's not workingJanuary 31, 2026
5 mins
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There were 1,889 enemy air flights made against Australia, ranging from massive bomber raids to individual aircraft sorties launched by submarineJanuary 30, 2026
7 mins
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Australia's leading fauxborigine has filed his accounts with the Charities Commission but many questions remainJanuary 30, 2026
17 mins
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What price happiness at a Coffs Harbour school dedicated to reinventing a dead language? About $40,000 per studentJanuary 29, 2026
8 mins
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Success in war has humble parents. It is often won by small, human-scale decisions of the kind Sextus Julius Frontinus recordedJanuary 29, 2026
11 mins
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Did Australia's then-PM fancy himself as Winston Churchill's replacement? Man of the left David Day has long insisted that was the case, yet has provided not the slightest shred of evidenceJanuary 29, 2026
22 mins
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Little good can be said of Richard Wagner and his virulent hated of Jews. Does that justify cancelling his wondrous music?January 28, 2026
6 mins
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We shared science, clinical work and a close personal relationship for more than 25 years. Tom was a great man and will be much missedJanuary 28, 2026
7 mins
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His autobiography charts a political journey which seems always to have led to the audiences who applaud the most adoringlyJanuary 27, 2026
12 mins
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The NSW Attorney-General's promise that a judge infamous for 'anti-Zionist' activism can be kept off 'controversial cases' has absolutely no basis in lawJanuary 27, 2026
6 mins
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Any sin is easier to commit the second time, even murder. Like IRA killer Dolours Price, you might find yourself executing a mother of tenJanuary 27, 2026
9 mins
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Trump is a disruptor who won because voters wanted disruption. Lord knows, that is what I want in AustraliaJanuary 26, 2026
10 mins
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It was not the “dignity of resistance”, as the AWM would have it. Rather, it was a response to repeated killing, theft, and outlaw behaviourJanuary 26, 2026
16 mins
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If you're a sort who loves fairytales about drowning islands, genocide in Gaza, and Trump's boundless evil, Radio National has a show just for youJanuary 25, 2026
17 mins
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It verges on the impossible for people to think themselves out of something which, like climate alarmism, has been externally planted in their mindsJanuary 25, 2026
5 mins
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It is on Western man to bring about this reprioritization and a return to the simplicity of Jesus' teachingsJanuary 25, 2026
15 mins
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Like the monks of yore, they are doing their bit to preserve and defend the embattled essence of the West amid an ever-expanding EndarkeningJanuary 24, 2026
10 mins
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Trump's defenders say the old order was inconsistently applied and often ignored. They are right. But the answer to imperfect rules is not no rules at allJanuary 23, 2026
14 mins
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Andrea Battistoni’s eloquent treatment of Puccini’s score produced one of the best all-round musical Opera Australia experiences in recent yearsJanuary 23, 2026
8 mins
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Left versus Right is no longer applicable. A more accurate mapping would be those who support Western values and those who don’tJanuary 23, 2026
14 mins
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The Coalition has disintegrated, Labor has the censorship laws it always wanted, and voters -- who can blame them? -- are turning to One NationJanuary 22, 2026
8 mins
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"That the new speech-crime regime will be applied narrowly, apolitically, objectively and fairly stretches credulity beyond breaking"January 22, 2026
3 mins
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Criticised today by Aboriginal leaders for advocating assimilation, the Voice result strongly suggests a majority of Australians agreeJanuary 22, 2026
9 mins
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In this new Australia that Anthony Albanese and Sussan Ley have given us, being paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get youJanuary 21, 2026
6 mins
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Did you know SUVs are now regarded as a threat to public safety? Oh, health, what crimes are committed in thy name!January 21, 2026
8 mins
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Joseph Banks lobbied without success to found a colony at Botany Bay. Then, suddenly in August 1786, it became a matter of the utmost urgencyJanuary 21, 2026
8 mins
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Andrea Battistoni’s eloquent treatment of Puccini’s score produced one of the best all-round musical Opera Australia experiences in recent years
January 23, 2026
8 mins
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Sir Charles lives on through the skills he so willingly shared with many others, but above all, in his legacy of so many fine and easily available recordingsNovember 23, 2025
9 mins
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Whether in the Opera House or the concert hall, Charles Mackerras was one of the most intelligent and exciting conductors of his generation.November 13, 2025
19 mins
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"The state orchestras are machines ... One of my criticisms of them has been that, for a large part, they are drowning in bureaucracy"|November 4, 2025
14 mins
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The Victorian Opera has taken Leoš Janáček seldom staged Katya Kabanová and produced a triumph.October 28, 2025
7 mins
Fiction
Dinner for Six
“Well, I had my own small war brewing at the table. I didn’t know what to say and you weren’t doing much to help.”
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The September 2024 issue of our magazine is now available via our website and in newsagents. You can click here to view the contents. Digital subscribers can enjoy the PDF and online articles now, and print subscribers will receive their hardcopies in the mail.September 2, 2024
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