Dear Quadrant,
Oh special day. Special, special day. I heard a rumour that you watched the Apology, Keith.
A very special day to start writing.
By the way, Quadrant, did you know The Big Issue‘s readership towers over yours? That’s right. With an audited fortnightly readership readership of 150,000, its reader numbers eclipse yours many, many times over. But it isn’t subsidised with public money like you are. Geez, you freemarket warriors must practise a fair deal of cognitive dissonance.
And in the magazines I have read
The Popular Front-to-Back.
But where I have lived
Spain weeps in the gutters of Footscray
And get this. Even though The Big Issue breaks stories, The Oz (or Quadrant Lite, as we call it) doesn’t see fit to write regular little puff-pieces about The Big Issue. But there have been quite a few very curious articles about you of late. I guess they’re softening up the pundits.
Sincerely,
Sharon Gould
