Category Archives: spreading the News

30th September 2021 Comments (1) Michael Connor Contributing editor Terra nullius and Captain Cook are the Left’s founding grievances. In Truth-Telling: History, Sovereignty and the Uluru Statement, Henry Reynolds returns with familiar errors to undermine Australia’s sovereignty. He is serious and his book ends with threats. The foundation of his history cum warfare begins withContinue reading “Resentment History and Cook’s Last Secret”

The Unsinkable Child-Stealing Myth 12th October 2021 Comments (19) Tony Thomas A bit of judicial biffo goes on all the time as appeal courts rule on whether a trial judge got it right or wrong. A case in point is the High Court’s unanimous critique last year of two Victorian appeal judges who sent theContinue reading “Bennelong Papers”

Mask and You Shall Deceive 11th October 2021 Comments (24) Peter Smith Frequent contributor Disappointments are part of life. One particular class of disappointments concerns conservative politicians who after attaining power go to water. Or, in the case of Boris Johnson, turn out to be a one-trick wonder. Brexit done, nothing much left that isn’tContinue reading “QED”

13th October 2021 Comments (6) Alan Moran It is this simple: skyrocketing world electricity prices stem from renewables policies. Notwithstanding the avalanche of propaganda we are seeing throughout the country, no wind or solar gets built anywhere in the world without subsidies paid by taxpayers and customers.  In Australia’s case these costs are $10 billionContinue reading “Much Pain for Net Zero Gain”

Who Will Rid Us of the Andrews Curse? 13th October 2021 Comments (13) Christopher Akehurst “It’s time”, as some readers will remember, was the Labor election slogan that ushered in the late Gough Whitlam’s disastrous time in office. Well now it’s time to dust off that slogan for another Labor disaster. It’s time for VictorianContinue reading “QED”

Shock! Horror!Perrottet is a Catholic 4th October 2021 Comments (4) As the dust settles after Gladys Berejiklian’s resignation and what is reported to be the imminent elevation of Dominic Perrottet to the post of NSW premier, Australia’s newsroom hacks thought they heard the faint tinkle of sanctus bells and made like Pavlov’s dogs, slobbering hintsContinue reading “Insights from Quadrant”

Submitted by Dave Hodges on Friday, July 30, 2021 – 14:55. You are about to read a report which exposes the biggest fraud ever perpetrated upon the American people. There are no unnamed sources afraid to come out behind the shadows for fear of experiencing the loss of job or even the loss of life.Continue reading “The Delta Variant Is Being Used to Hide the Real Casualty Numbers of the Covid Vaccine”

6th October 2021 Comments (6) Augusto Zimmermann Zachary Gorman is academic coordinator with the Robert Menzies Institute, previously having worked as a research fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs. He is also a professional historian with a PhD from the University of Wollongong and a BA with First Class Honours from the University ofContinue reading “A Timely Reminder of Liberty’s Roots”

Australia’s Obscene Green Subsidy Machine 6th October 2021 Comments (6) Alan Moran When an ALP government introduced a “carbon price” on electricity in 2012 it was sold as a neutral tax. It was, of course, nothing of the sort. The tax was on the carbon content of fossil fuels, but a neutral tax would haveContinue reading “Doomed Planet”

29th September 2021 Comments (21) Christopher Akehurst Does anyone remember when portraits of the Queen used to hang in public offices and schools? Two versions were usually seen: the 1954 painting by Sir William Dargie showing Her Majesty in her “wattle dress” and Pietro Annigoni’s 1955 portrait with Windsor Castle in the background. You won’tContinue reading “Chipping Away at Names for the Nation”

3rd October 2021 Comments (1) Peter Smith Frequent contributor A lady made a show of shying away from me the other day when I revealed I wouldn’t be able to watch the new Bond film until on or after 1 December (NSW ‘Freedom Day’), being unvaccinated. Don’t blame her. It’s the zeitgeist. I’m about toContinue reading “Pick an Epidemiologist, any Epidemiologist”

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”

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”

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?”

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’”

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”