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 taking of life. The next stopsContinue reading “Resisting Euthanasia’s Culture of Death”
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Our Gaslighting Gauleiters
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”
Joe Biden’s Pox Americana
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”
What Does The TGA Think It’s Doing?
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?”
Vivaldi
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”
The Right to Hold a Job Becomes a ‘Benefit’
7th September 2021 Comments (23) Peter Smith Frequent contributor I once wrote an article for Quadrant “Struggling with the Burka.” I used John Stuart Mill’s concept of what liberty looks like to help construct my argument. However much I disliked the burka, defined as the full body, head and face covering, it seemed unsafe toContinue reading “The Right to Hold a Job Becomes a ‘Benefit’”
Nothing to Lose but Chains and Shame
7th September 2021 Comments (18) Stuart Lindsay The first I heard of Quadrant was in the Seventies and that was through a miscellany of liberal journalists’ casual slurs about CIA money and James McAuley’s 1950’s editorship. I reckon it was the Adelaide Advertiser’s resident “foreign affairs” columnist who alerted me, a self-important little bloke calledContinue reading “Nothing to Lose but Chains and Shame”
Reminiscence of moments in time
written by Nelle Poignant memories of my father filter through my memory, dancing and elusive, I almost capture them but then they slip away, eluding my grasp, fading and returning to the past. So time has dimmed my earlier recollections of dad but not so much my mother. Life goes by so quickly that it’sContinue reading “Reminiscence of moments in time”
The ABC and Corruption in High Places
14th June 2021 Comments (2) Keith Windschuttle Editor-in-chiefEditor, Quadrant Magazinekeithwindschuttle@quadrant.org.au Stories of corruption in high places have always been a good drawcard for readers of the news media and it is no surprise that many journalists have a strong appetite for such fare. And because such corruption is usually well covered up, a form ofContinue reading “The ABC and Corruption in High Places”
Why There Were No Stolen Generations (Part Two)
1st January 2010 Comments (0) Keith Windschuttle Editor-in-chiefEditor, Quadrant Magazinekeithwindschuttle@quadrant.org.au [Part One is here…] The Origins of the Myth The empirical underpinnings of Bringing Them Home derived largely from the work of white academic historians. The Human Rights Commission did no serious research of its own into the primary historical sources. Co-authors Ronald Wilson andContinue reading “Why There Were No Stolen Generations (Part Two)”
Why There Were No Stolen Generations (Part One)
1st January 2010 Comments (0) Keith Windschuttle Editor-in-chiefEditor, Quadrant Magazinekeithwindschuttle@quadrant.org.au Most Australians would be taken aback to find that whenever academics in the field of genocide studies discuss history’s worst examples, their own country is soon mentioned. The March 2001 edition of the London-based Journal of Genocide Research indicated the company Australia now keeps. ThatContinue reading “Why There Were No Stolen Generations (Part One)”
Bruce Pascoe, Dumped Upon from a Great Height
9th January 2021 Comments (15) Peter O’Brien In a very well researched paper titled ‘Foragers or Farmers: Dark Emu and the Controversy over Aboriginal Agriculture’ published in Anthropological Forum, ANU academic Dr Ian Keen, has brought some academic rigour to the debate over Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu. When I wrote Bitter Harvest, I did notContinue reading “Bruce Pascoe, Dumped Upon from a Great Height”
The ‘Indigenous’ Invasion of Aboriginal Australia
6th January 2021 Comments (11) Patrick McCauley Culture is defined by Wiki as “an umbrella term which encompasses the social behaviour and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.” So you could apply that definition to just about everythingContinue reading “The ‘Indigenous’ Invasion of Aboriginal Australia”
An Australian Christmas
An Australian Christmas: Henry Lawson Henry Lawson Quadrant Online 25th December 2020 Along by merry Christmas time they buy the aged goose,And boil the dread plum pudding, because of ancient use.But to sneer at old time customs would be nothing but a crime,|For the memory of the Past is all bound up in Christmas time.ThenContinue reading “An Australian Christmas”
The Presumption and Promotion of Misery
21st November 2020 Comments (0) Anthony Daniels Columnist For many people, especially the educated, the word conservative is a term of derogation, except perhaps in relation to the preservation of giant pandas, carrying with it many negative connotations. Once a person or a policy has been described as conservative, he or it may safely beContinue reading “The Presumption and Promotion of Misery”
Beware, Parents, Your Kids Are Being ‘Scootled’
Tony Thomas When I noticed that a top-tier federal-state education body is providing lesson materials for teachers, I decided to take a look. The body is Education Services Australia (ESA), a company set up by federal-state education ministers. ESA provides free supplementary online materials for teachers via 20,000-plus pages on its Scootle portal. No mickey-mouseContinue reading “Beware, Parents, Your Kids Are Being ‘Scootled’”
Military Justice, a Contradiction in Terms?
28th November 2020 Comments (29) Peter O’Brien The train wreck is not the war crimes alleged in the Brereton Report. The train wreck is the manner in which the government, and Defence in particular, is managing it. Prior to the release of the report, there was a general, and welcome, consensus among senior politicians, particularlyContinue reading “Military Justice, a Contradiction in Terms?”
To Genealogist Everywhere:
We are the chosen. In each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again, to tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. Doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, breathing lifeContinue reading “To Genealogist Everywhere:”
The One Word We’re Not Hearing: ‘Alleged’
22nd November 2020 Comments (23) The One Word We’re Not Hearing: ‘Alleged’Peter Smith Quadrant Online 22nd November 2020 To put it mildly, “alleged” is an all-important word and concept in Australian jurisprudence, as is its companion phrase, “the presumption of innocence.” Together they safeguard our very freedom. When those alleged to have committed a crimeContinue reading “The One Word We’re Not Hearing: ‘Alleged’”
From ‘Angry Penguins’ to an Unquestioned ‘Emu’
26th August 2020 Tony Thomas Have Australian schools gone green-barmy or what? Yet another “teachers’ guide” is operative about would-be “Aborigine” Bruce Pascoe and his Dark Emu fantasy. This book has done well for him, selling more than 260,000 copies. His fantasy involves pre-colonial Aboriginal agriculturalists. Pascoe isolates atypical facets, distorts explorers’ reports, and addsContinue reading “From ‘Angry Penguins’ to an Unquestioned ‘Emu’”
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