Category Archives: Resourced Posts

Too Many Irritations to Screen Out 22nd November 2021 Comments (2) Peter Smith Frequent contributor One of the reasons I stopped watching the ABC was to stop shouting at the telly. It’s unbecoming and completely futile to boot. Raises one’s blood pressure, causes nervous dyspepsia and might well shorten life. I took to watching SkyContinue reading “QED”

Mervyn Bendle Culture at the Heart: Western Civilisation is in crisis, and at the heart of the crisis is culture. And yet (with the honourable exception of Quadrant and, to a lesser extent the IPA and CIS) the cultural field has largely been vacated by liberals and conservatives, or at least by their political representatives.Continue reading “The Lefts War on Faith”

COVID Statistics by Dummies for Dummies 25th October 2021 Comments (16) Peter Smith Frequent contributor Statistics should be kept out of bounds to non-statisticians; most particularly, right now, to medical researchers and epidemiologists. I say this because of the statistical garbage they’re cobbling together and feeding to the gullible press. Incidentally, this is no disrespectContinue reading “QED”

15th November 2021 Comments (12) Peter Smith Frequent contributor Influenced perhaps by the authoritarian regime in Singapore and a nonsensical paper by a couple of public-square wannabes in the part-publicly-funded The Conversation (upon which more below), Bob Carr apparently believes that those unvaccinated who catch a serious case of the dreaded virus should pay forContinue reading “Build Those Pyres, It’s Persecution Time”

14th November 2021 Comments (35) Keith Windschuttle Editor-in-chiefEditor, Quadrant Magazinekeithwindschuttle@quadrant.org.au The anonymous former choirboy, Witness J, who falsely accused Cardinal George Pell of sexually abusing him in the sacristy of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Melbourne, after Mass on a Sunday morning in December 1996, has now made some revelations of his own that shed new lightContinue reading “The Commissioner and the Choirboy”

Eureka! They Have Clowned It 23rd October 2021 Comments (5) Vic Jurskis Three centuries before Christ, Archimedes jumped out of a bath and ran naked through the streets of Syracuse shouting “Eureka!”. That’s Greek for “I have found it”. What he found was a scientific method to expose a counterfeit ‘gold’ crown. Well now weContinue reading “Doomed Planet”

Conservative Thought in the Time of Covid 30th September 2021 Comments (0) Steven Kates With the arrival of Covid, and the reactions across the world which have involved locking down entire communities, this may be an appropriate time to have a look at what it means to be a conservative in relation to politics. ThereContinue reading “Philosophy & Ideas”

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”