Peter O’Brien Quadrant Online 1st December 2024 Imagine, if you will, a person who is told of a death in her next-door neighbour’s family. “Oh, I’m sorry to hear of your loss”, she tells the distraught neighbour, “but, to be honest, I never really liked your mother.” Would this person – let’s call her MehreenContinue reading “Faruqi’s Special Kind of Privilege”
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Donald Trump, Cabinet Maker
Roger Franklin Quadrant Online November 25, 2024 If November 5 was about anything it was free speech — the right, at its most basic, to call the other guy “literally Hitler” and be derided in response as “mentally defective, a halfwit”, which captures in a few words the entire home stretch of the US electionContinue reading “Donald Trump, Cabinet Maker”
Alan Jones’ Crime: Being on the Right
Paul Collits Quadrant Online November 23, 2024 All this looks and feels very familiar. Déjà vu in caps. By now, everyone will know that Alan Jones, former school teacher, Wallabies coach, Malcolm Fraser speechwriter, 2GB radio star, one-time Sky News presenter (until Murdoch’s people shafted him for not being a Covid hysteric) and general right-wingerContinue reading “Alan Jones’ Crime: Being on the Right”
Presumption of Innocence? Hah!
Bettina Arndt Quadrant Online November 21, 2024 This week’s arrest of Alan Jones shows just how we have strayed from the principles of justice, with our media and police heavyweights flagrantly ignoring the rules we have in place to ensure a fair trial. This has all the earmarks of a hit job led by feministContinue reading “Presumption of Innocence? Hah!”
The Mind of a US Swing Voter
The Mind of a US Swing Voter Peter O’Brien Quadrant Online October 12, 2012 Luke Richard Castray was a British Army officer who came to Australia in the late 1800s as Commissary in Charge of the Colony of Tasmania. He was a prominent citizen, honoured by having the boulevard adjacent to Salamanca Place named afterContinue reading “The Mind of a US Swing Voter”
Gina Rinehart, Despised Olympic Champion
Nick McGowan Quadrant Online 10th August 2024 If you are anything like me, I know how you’ve starting your mornings for the past 13 days. By grabbing your phone and checking Australia’s medal tally and place on the Olympic ladder through bleary eyes: 18 golds. 14 silvers. 13 bronzes. We have broken our previous recordContinue reading “Gina Rinehart, Despised Olympic Champion”
The Middle East
What a ‘Free’ Palestine Would Mean 5th August 2024 Comments (5) Eugene Alexander Donnini The claim that Islam is a religion of peace is a nicety invented by Western politicians so as either not to offend their Muslim populations or simply lie to themselves that everything might yet turn out fine. In fact, since itsContinue reading “The Middle East”
George Pell and His Antagonists
2nd August 2024 Comments (6) Gerard Henderson I believe that, of all believers in the world, Christians are the most persecuted. The late anti-communist activist B.A. Santamaria, who along with Cardinal Pell had a role in establishing Aid to the Church in Need here in Australia, was wont to say that anti-Catholicism was the anti-SemitismContinue reading “George Pell and His Antagonists”
Energy
The Incoherent Roadmap to Net Zero 3rd September 2023 Comments (22) John Cameron In 2021 we were confidently told that it would cost $78 billion to rewire the grid for renewables and that the average annual household electricity bill would fall by $275 under Labor because, as Anthony Albanese explained, ‘we have done the modelling’2.Continue reading “Energy”
America
Beatified by an Assassin’s Bullet? 21st July 2024 Comments (46) Peter Smith Providence or random chance? Which was it that saved Donald Trump? And, if providence, are we to attribute it to the Lord God Almighty of the Christian and Jewish Bible? To satisfy the mob, my inclination is to say, I don’t know. ButContinue reading “America”
America
Trump Wounded. God Help America Now 14th July 2024 Comments (51) Guess what happens when you and all your legions brand a political opponent a dictator, tyrant, rapist and, as voting day draws near, the American Hitler? Here’s what happens: Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop … then a pause and then … pop, pop,pop, pop.Continue reading “America”
Society
Why aren’t Hamas Groupies Forced to Pay? 10th July 2024 Comments (12) Peter O’Brien Free speech is a bedrock of democracy. But we should be clear on what it is. And what it isn’t. Essentially it means that, except in extreme circumstances you, an individual, cannot be prosecuted for expressing an opinion that the governmentContinue reading “Society”
Doomed Planet
Things That Go Slump in the Night 25th June 2024 Comments (14) Rafe Champion Severe wind droughts are prolonged spells with next to no wind across continental areas. They also exist offshore as any sailor who has been becalmed knows full well. Wind droughts will kill the green-power fantasy, and they have the potential toContinue reading “Doomed Planet”
No Jab. No Job. No Justice
17th May 2024 Comments (43) Augusto Zimmermann & Gabriël Moens Warren Tredrea is a former AFL player and sports presenter (above) with the Nine Network. He spent 14 years in the AFL and 13 years in media, eight of those with Nine. And yet Tredrea was fired from his position as a sports presenter afterContinue reading “No Jab. No Job. No Justice”
History
Captain Cook and the Black Children 16th May 2024 Comments (17) Michael Connor Contributing editor If Martians had landed on the front beach of my home town in the middle of my childhood, a small boy and his dog (Larry) would have been straight down to see what they were doing. Also present would haveContinue reading “History”
Stars of David
27th May 2024 Comments (22) Peter O’Brien Like Tony Thomas I am a lover of classical music. That is my favourite but I Iike most genres, and jazz is right up there, although I’m no expert. My wife definitely prefers jazz. That is why Saturday night is America Night in our musical programme. Last SaturdayContinue reading “Stars of David”
Religion
The Left’s Relentless War on Faith 16th May 2024 Comments (17) Mervyn Bendle A very powerful cabal within the Australian Left aims to strictly control and eventually eliminate religious faith, and it appears the time is coming when Christians and others will be called upon to resist the onslaught. As Chris Uhlmann points out: “AContinue reading “Religion”
It’s Not Your Grandfather’s Colonialism
14th May 2024 Comments (7) Paul Collits If you haven’t heard of Eva Vlaardingerbroek before, well, you have now. Perhaps you have previously seen her on The Mark Steyn Show. Given her name (the second one), you’ve probably guessed that she is Dutch. She has just scored somewhere approaching 50 million views of a speechContinue reading “It’s Not Your Grandfather’s Colonialism”
Israel
A UN Vote That Will Live in Infamy 13th May 2024 Comments (24) Peter O’Brien On the 7th of October last year, the terrorist group Hamas, which rules in Gaza and purports to represent the state of “Palestine”, committed the most foul attack upon Jewish people since the Holocaust. Within days, that atrocity was celebratedContinue reading “Israel”
Vice-Chancellors Wrapped in Shame and Keffiyehs
7th May 2024 Anti-Semitism Mervyn Bendle Do the vice-chancellors of our universities really think they are going to get away with their blatant sanctioning of the current, vile anti-Semitic protests at our universities? Perhaps they feel comfortable aligning themselves with the same ugly forces that stampeded towards the Sydney Opera House to shut down theContinue reading “Vice-Chancellors Wrapped in Shame and Keffiyehs”
