Category Archives: Quadrant

Tony Abbott Whether it’s steadily growing support for minor parties and independents here, now routinely a third of the electorate; the stale presidential re-run now on offer in the US; the likely wipe-out of the British Tory government by a nondescript opposition; or the near disintegration of once-well-established parties in Western Europe, clearly more andContinue reading “Populism and the Failure of Conservatives”

Kevin Donnelly Curtis Cheng shot dead in in Parramatta in 2015, the Khayat brothers planning to blow up an Etihad plane in 2017, Abdul Haider, 18, attacking two police officers with a knife three years earlier in the Melbourne suburb of Endeavour Hills. Now, while Lakemba imams preach death to Jews and attack thecountry thatContinue reading “The Threat, the Damage, the Solution”

Mervyn Bendle Anti-Semitism keeps evolving. In its current iteration, unimaginatively known as the New Antisemitism, it retains many of the traditional tropes found in the previous five stages of Antisemitism dating back over 2000 years, and these shouldn’t need to be rehearsed here. What is innovative in its new form is the way in whichContinue reading “The New Anti-Semitism’s Nazi Lineage”

Tony Thomas Trigger warning: if your household companions include a cat, dog, canary, goldfish or turtle, this article is not a safe space. I’m writing about Harvard’s distinguished agnatologist Professor Naomi Oreskes (above) and her 2014 warning that global warming would kill your pets in 2023. The warning is in her acclaimed but glum bookContinue reading “The Queen of Climate Crackpottery”

The Getting of Donald Trump Roger Franklin Editor, Quadrant Online Forgive the foggy memory, for I can’t quite place the sign that announced in carefully painted white-on-black block letters just a single word, ‘BELIEVE’. Tennessee or Kentucky maybe, because the road it was beside wound through narrow valleys and hillsides waiting winter-naked for the firstContinue reading “America”

Rachael Kohn Quadrant Online 12th March 2024 If you have wondered for the umpteenth time just who are the “elders, past, present and emerging” whom we all are meant to acknowledge, it might surprise you that Aboriginal Australians also ask themselves the same question. The earnest declarations issued at the commencement of every event byContinue reading “Hoax Springs Eternal”

Hate for Australia Drawn on the Public Purse Peter O’Brien It’s possible to prosecute a case for improved outcomes for the minority of Aboriginal people severely disadvantaged relative to the vast majority of their countrymen (which includes 80 per cent of fellow Aborigines). Further, to acknowledge that the process of establishing and building Australia broughtContinue reading

Oil and Water: Islam and the West Peter Smith Frequent contributor Three Weekend Australian newspaper articles and two (December Issue) Quadrant articles got my attention after a planned outing was deferred and I had time on my hands. The articles, in order, by Gemma Tognini, Greg Craven, Greg Sheridan, Rachael Kohn and Daryl McCann were,Continue reading “Islam”

Tony Thomas It’s a good thing that 165 Australian journalists, led by the tribes at The Guardian, ABC and Nine, have outed themselves as supporters of Israel’s destruction. As many have noted, now we know who they are. They’ve endorsed an Open Letter from their MEAA union to media outlets. It describes Israel’s retaliatory warContinue reading

Britain: A Country Divided and Ruled John O’Sullivan Editor, International When the entire world is looking nervously into the abyss, it may seem solipsistic to concentrate on the particular circumstances of Britain’s national crisis. It’s worth doing so, however, because for the first time since 1945 the British themselves seem dimly or acutely or angrilyContinue reading “Britain”