Category Archives: Quadrant

Black Duck, Red Ink, White Mendicant

Tony Thomas Quadrant Online February 6, 2025 It’s always a red-letter day when Bruce Pascoe’s charity Black Duck Foods reveals its latest accounts. The 2023-24 set, filed late last month, is doubly intriguing because Black Duck last June was in deep duck poo, judging by Pascoe’s begging email of June 26: We urgently need yourContinue reading “Black Duck, Red Ink, White Mendicant”

Stuart Macintyre and the Blainey Affair

Keith Windshuttle Quadrant Online February 5, 2025 At the last federal election, Kevin Rudd promised an “education revolution”. However, the appointment last month of Stuart Macintyre to draft the national history syllabus for Australian high schools is anything but revolutionary. It is a return to the past with a vengeance. It is guaranteed to entrenchContinue reading “Stuart Macintyre and the Blainey Affair”

Gorilla about to devour Labor’s green dream

Chris Uhlmann the Australian January 31, 2025 In November a banana taped to a wall sold at a New York auction for $9.57m. Or rather, the idea of the artwork, called Comedian, sold. What crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun bought was a certificate of authenticity that gives him sole authority to gaffer-tape a banana to aContinue reading “Gorilla about to devour Labor’s green dream”

After Covid, JFK Jr Doesn’t Seem so Nutty

Peter Smith Quadrant Online 1st February 2025 In December last year more than 75 Nobel laureates signed a letter asking the U.S. Senate not to confirm Health and Human Services secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr, citing his opposition to vaccines among their concerns. I suppose only 65 Nobel laureates would not have been asContinue reading “After Covid, JFK Jr Doesn’t Seem so Nutty”

Pallywood Films and Their ABC Present

Tony Thomas Quadrant Online January 30, 2025 Being so pro-Palestine often puts the ABC in a bind. For example, the ABC is incapable of admitting that Hamas has been looting aid trucks in Gaza for decades to steal and profiteer food and essentials. Last November 19 the ABC ran a Matthew Doran/agency piece about strangeContinue reading “Pallywood Films and Their ABC Present”

Australian Citizenship for Dummies

Phil Shannon Quadrant Online January 28, 2025 A recent Sky News Australia report revealed that one-third of those applying to become Australian citizens fail the citizenship test: only 187,574 of the 288,603 who took the test between June 2022 and August 2023.) This amount of flunking should be ringing bells about the quality of Australia’sContinue reading “Australian Citizenship for Dummies”

The Much-Maligned Frontier Spirit

Mervyn Bendle Quadrant Online January 26, 2025 It was the Frontier Spirit that Donald Trump invoked in his Second Inaugural Address as the force that would make America great again: The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation, one that increases our wealth, expands our territory, builds our cities, raises our expectationsContinue reading “The Much-Maligned Frontier Spirit”

Environmentalism as Anti-Humanism

Ethan Redekop Quadrant Online January 27, 2025 At present, there is fierce debate in Canadian politics surrounding Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s implementation of a carbon tax. Federal opposition leader Pierre Poilievre has made the repeal of Trudeau’s carbon tax the crux of his campaign to become prime minister, citing the rising cost of living andContinue reading “Environmentalism as Anti-Humanism”

No Wonder the Pews are Empty

Peter Smith Quadrant Online January 25, 2025 Bishop Mariann Budde is the leader of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington. Any non-churchgoer of sound mind who heard her self-indulgent lecturing of Donald Trump from the pulpit of the Washington National Cathedral on Tuesday, January 21, would thank their lucky stars they spend their Sunday mornings lyingContinue reading “No Wonder the Pews are Empty”

Coming to Grips with Trump

Peter Fenwick Quadrant Online January 19, 2025 Donald Trump’s resume is quite remarkable. As a real estate developer, he reshaped Manhattan’s skyline and built a global network of hotels and golf resorts. For 14 seasons, he hosted The Apprentice, a very successful reality TV show. Then, in 2017, he became the 45th president of theContinue reading “Coming to Grips with Trump”

Coloniser Blood Money Welcome

Timothy Cootes Quadrant Online January 13, 2025 Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah continues to prove you can get away with the most grotesque exhibitions of moral lunacy in this country, so long as you have an academic title. The Future Fellow in Sociology at Macquarie University began 2025 with a New Year’s message of sorts, and thereContinue reading “Coloniser Blood Money Welcome”

The Horrific Cost of Persecuting Doctors – Medical regulator needs urgent reform

Kara Thomas Quadrant Online January 10, 2025 The dramatic erosion of trust in Australia’s medical institutions represents more than just statistics – it reflects a profound crisis in healthcare that demands immediate action. The recent government COVID-19 Response Inquiry Report reveals an alarming collapse in public confidence, with trust in science, in government and inContinue reading “The Horrific Cost of Persecuting Doctors – Medical regulator needs urgent reform”

Anticipating the Trump Revolution

Peter Fenwick Quadrant Online 8 January 2025 Donald Trump’s resume is quite remarkable. As a real estate developer, he reshaped Manhattan’s skyline and built a global network of hotels and golf courses. For 14 seasons, he hosted The Apprentice, a very successful reality television show. Then, in 2017, he became the 45th president of theContinue reading “Anticipating the Trump Revolution”

Noxious Imports and Virtuous Tariffs

Peter Smith Quadrant Online January 4, 2025 Need a change of pace. My last two QoL posts have been about the excesses flowing from Islam. As usual, the topic draws the odd rationalisation: to wit, all religions at some point have spawned the persecution of non-believers, and that hoary chestnut, namely that the Old TestamentContinue reading “Noxious Imports and Virtuous Tariffs”

The Imams’ Guide to Reporting Massacres

Roger Franklin Quadrant Online January 4, 2025 Journalism being the imprecise craft it is, helpful hints and guidance are always welcome, which is why QoL is republishing in full these just-released thoughts from the Australian National Imams Council (ANIC). Prompted by the lethal rampage in New Orleans, ANIC’s Koranic scholars (below) caution editors and writersContinue reading “The Imams’ Guide to Reporting Massacres”

Looking Forward

Rebecca Weisser Quadrant Online January 2, 2025 Two-faced Janus, the ancient Roman god of January, looks both backwards to the year that has gone and forwards to the year to come. He presides over beginnings and endings, war and peace, he is the god of transitions, often portrayed above doorways. In short, Janus provides anContinue reading “Looking Forward”

We are Much the Poorer for his Passing’

Tony Abbott Quadrant Online December 30, 202¢ Tony Abbott’s eulogy for Kevin Andrews, his friend, colleague and ‘a man of character, conviction, and courage’… It’s an honour to be giving this address, on behalf of the Andrews family; because for all his achievements on the national stage, it’s the family that Kevin (above) and MargaretContinue reading “We are Much the Poorer for his Passing’”

Whoppers for Allah

Peter Smith Quadrant Online December 29, 2024 I intended to respond to two readers’ comments on my last QoL piece but had troubling connecting. “Use difficulties” Michael Caine once said, re taking advantage of things going wrong on stage. So here goes. Apropos taqiyya, one reader wrote: “…when it comes to the meaning of “taqiyya,”Continue reading “Whoppers for Allah”

The Revisionist Case That Muhammad Did Not Exist

Mervyn F. Bendle Quadrant Online December 19, 2024 Did Muhammad exist? No. And neither did the Koran for that matter, at least not in the form or with the status ascribed to it by Muslims. These are the two major conclusions of a vigorous stream of revisionist scholarship that has struggled for many decades toContinue reading “The Revisionist Case That Muhammad Did Not Exist”