Something extraordinary is happening in Iran Brendan O’Neill (Credit: YouTube) Brendan O’Neill 21 September 2022 11:35 PM The images coming out of Iran are remarkable. Women are ripping off their hijabs and burning them in public. They’re dancing in the streets and shaking their freed hair as onlookers whoop and cheer. These are stunning actsContinue reading “World“
Category Archives: History
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Our collective immortality James Kildare Getty Images James Kildare 20 September 2022 7:00 AM Over the last week many patients – I suspect, upon hearing my accent – have asked my opinion of the Queen. This is out of character for Australia, as political issues seldom arise in hospitals. This behaviour is mostly driven byContinue reading “Flat White“
Leading article Australia
God save our CM The Spectator Australia Getty Images The Spectator Australia 17 September 2022 9:00 AM It doesn’t have quite the same ring to it, ‘God save our gracious constitutional monarchy, long live our noble constitution monarchy, God save the constitutional monarch’. But that is the essence of what two weeks of emotional outpouringsContinue reading “Leading article Australia“
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Jordan Peterson defends the Commonwealth Flat White Screenshot from YouTube ‘Jordan Peterson Comments on the Queen’s Passing’ Flat White 12 September 2022 7:00 AM We have heard plenty from our morally-rotten politicians, journalists who have no idea what a constitutional monarchy is, and hateful academics who idiotically used the death of a much-loved woman toContinue reading “Flat White“
Aborigines possibly the tenth race to have inhabited Australia
Sep 7 Posted by Editor, cairnsnews Letter to the Editor The Torres Strait Islanders are a different race of unrelated people of Melanesian descent, their history goes back about 3,000 years diverging to a mix of Papuan and Lapita people 30,000 years ago. They are a well structured society with agriculture and productive communal industry, andContinue reading “Aborigines possibly the tenth race to have inhabited Australia”
Kevin Donnelly The Australian August 6, 2022
After reading The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Guide in the early 1990s, I never realised how infectious, dangerous and widespread political correctness would become. Most of the examples back then were humorous and appeared far-fetched with constructs such as vertically challenged instead of small and chemically inconvenienced for being drunk. Fast forward to moreContinue reading “Kevin Donnelly The Australian August 6, 2022”
“National shame’’
Natasha Bita The Australian July 28, 2022 “National shame’’ is being taught in school history lessons, a new Centre of Independent Studies report claims. British analyst Joanna Williams has charged into Australia’s culture wars, blaming a black-armband view of history for the rise in identity politics among young Australians. “History classes increasingly focus on pastContinue reading ““National shame’’”
World
Why is a former French colony joining the Commonwealth? John Connolly President Ali Bongo and Prince Charles (photo: Getty) John Connolly 4 July 2022 4:00 PM When Boris Johnson flew to Rwanda with Prince Charles for a key Commonwealth summit last weekend, the trip ended up being overshadowed by a bubbling feud between the twoContinue reading “World“
Trains and trams Brisbane 1960’s
Aborigines
The Voice and its Ten Glaring Pitfalls 10th June 2022 Comments (4) Alistair Crooks The past is a good teacher for those prepared to learn. As a new round of talk concerning an Aboriginal “Voice” to Canberra warms up, here are 10 fundamental rules and warnings history can tell us about the Voice even beforeContinue reading “Aborigines”
Aborigines
The Voice and the End of Traditional Aboriginal Culture 12th June 2022 Comments (5) Keith Windschuttle Editor-in-chiefEditor, Quadrant Magazinekeithwindschuttle@quadrant.org.au They were here first. They have been here for 60,000 years. We took their land and their law. — Greg Craven, The Australian, May 28, 2022 In recent commentary on the new Labor government’s commitmentContinue reading “Aborigines”
Hungary’s authoritarian leader and longtime Russian ally, Viktor Orban, clinched a fourth consecutive term in power on Sunday, after a landslide election win that he touted as a rebuke of liberalism, the European Union and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Orban’s Fidesz party strengthened their position in Parliament despite forecasts predicting a tight race. It won 53% of the vote with almost all ballots counted, enough for a commanding lead over a united coalition of opposition parties. The election campaign was dominated by Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, which put Orban’s lengthy association with Russian PresidentContinue reading “Hungary’s authoritarian leader and longtime Russian ally, Viktor Orban, clinched a fourth consecutive term in power on Sunday, after a landslide election win that he touted as a rebuke of liberalism, the European Union and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky.”
Viewpoints
The Ongoing War on Arab Christians and Western Complicity Augusto Zimmermann May 31, 2022Updated: May 31, 2022 Print 0:006:30 Commentary Christianity faces the possibility of disappearing in the Middle East, where its roots go back to the death of Jesus Christ. A century ago, Christians comprised 20 percent of the region’s population. Today, they areContinue reading “Viewpoints“
Flat White
Will the ABC tell the whole story about Mount Dispersion? Vic Jurskis Illustration facing p. 104 Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia drawing of Mount Dispersion massacre, 1836 by Major T.L. Mitchell (Heritage NSW). Vic Jurskis 1 June 2022 4:00 AM I think ABC reached the zenith of Wokeism in a tall storyContinue reading “Flat White“
Senator Matthew Canavan
tmi127f919008a7mhr1f65 · 167 years ago today Australians fought the Eureka Rebellion at Ballarat against British tyranny. While the battle was lost, the cause in the end was won, as the hated licence fee system was dismantled and democracy expanded in Victoria and right through Australia. Still today the Eureka flag represents freedom and liberty fromContinue reading “Senator Matthew Canavan “
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