Author Archives: Nelle

26th September 2021 Comments (32) Peter Smith Frequent contributor This virus has sickened and often times killed the old and vulnerable. That is the least of what it has delivered. It has delivered despotism, police brutality, journalistic delinquency, and lies, deceptions and misinformation; and, most depressingly, the truth about the parlous state of our civilisation.Continue reading “In Virus Veritas”

26th September 2021 Comments (3) Andrew Lansdown “Social justice” was traditionally the rallying cry of the politically Left and the theologically liberal. But in recent years it has been increasingly taken up by evangelical, conservative and Bible-believing Christians; and it is increasingly drawing these Christians into the folds of left-wing politics and liberal theology. TheContinue reading “The Bible, Social Justice and the Poor”

MY Country Australia is a great country or the Australia of my youth was- Australians are laid back, welcoming to anyone and a place at the table was always found for those who dropped in to say hello-social occasions were mainly in house –people, family and friends would come for a visit and you wereContinue reading “Australia- -Land of Milk and Honey”

Australia on Horseback: The Story of the Horse and the Making of a NationCAMERON FORBESMacmillan, $44.99 Horses in AustraliaNICOLAS BRASCHNewsouth, $49.99 A horse is not a dog. That’s pretty much the key to it. The dog wins us over with an unblinking, loyal devotion, the horse by its unfathomable acquiescence. The dog, for all itsContinue reading “History”

19th September 2021 Comments (4) Paul Sturdee With the continuing rise of woke progressivism, Western culture and civilisation are regressing to an earlier age. The celebration of amorality and barbarism signals the imminent loss of the moral community. That much is now clear. In the UK, for example, the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square inContinue reading “The Left and the Decline of the Moral Community”

19th September 2021 Comments (16) Paul Collits A tsunami of culture-of-death legislation is rolling across the increasingly unfruited plain that is modern-day Australia. Parliament by parliament, our elected representatives have massively expanded the “Overton Window”—the range of policies which the electorate can be persuaded to accept—in relation to issues concerning the ethics of the takingContinue reading “Resisting Euthanasia’s Culture of Death”

13th September 2021 Comments (15) Peter Smith Frequent contributor Not making it up, Robert Gottliebsen in Friday’s Australian (paywalled): “Those without a vaccination certificate will be seen as walking timebombs to be avoided by the vaccinated.”Then there’sPrue MacSween expressing discomfort on Sky News on Thursday evening about sitting on a plane next to an unvaccinatedContinue reading “Our Gaslighting Gauleiters”

10th September 2021 Comments (4) Antony Carr I was wondering how long it would take for American commentators to come up with semi-plausible reasons for continuing to support a President who has overseen the most comprehensive and humiliating defeat in US history. Until recently we’ve had to be content with the usual blather from theContinue reading “Joe Biden’s Pox Americana”

11th September 2021 Comments (11) Gilbert Berdine You have to wonder what is going on at the Therapeutic Goods Administration, whence bizarre edicts are emerging in recent profusion. Take ivermectin, for instance, which a goodly body of evidence and opinion asserts is useful in preventing and treating COVID-19 infections. Last month, Health Minister Greg HuntContinue reading “What Does The TGA Think It’s Doing?”

I spent time in this church when I visited Venice as he is a composer I like and two of his compositions, the Four Seasons and the Christmas Concerto are favourites but I have no photos as they won’t allow cameras in the church Santa Maria della Pietà, Venice The church of Santa Maria dellaContinue reading “Vivaldi”