The Fairfax press today features the ghost-written profile of a young Muslim woman we are urged to see as a victim of Australia's endemic intolerance and bigotry. Shocking stuff! How could anyone feel anything but a empathy for a woman who idolised an Islamist mass murderer?

LaTrobe University's Research Centre in Sex, Health & Society has been in the headlines for the Safe Schools program it developed. Deputy Director Gary Dowsett also keeps himself busy with what might strike some as rather arcane research topics and large grant applications

Telegenic Muslim women never lack for invitations to go before the ABC's cameras and put a happy face on their religion, not least when one or other bloody outrage demands a very special brand of cultural contextualizing. Q&A newcomer Raihan Ismail can look forward to many more close-ups

The publisher of a website for Australian Muslims has made some encouraging noises about the need to see his creed's local leadership reformed. Alas, many of his readers aren't so sanguine about the possibility -- or, indeed, the need --for change, as their now-deleted comments demonstrate

When two devout Muslims opened fire on a picnic train outside Broken Hill in 1915, officialdom took just a few days to reach the conclusion that the attack had been inspired by Islamic fanaticism. Today, defenders of public safety are somewhat more tardy in recognising the obvious

On the morning after a decent, albeit supine, Prime Minister was dispatched to the backbench, where is a conservative to turn? If principle is worth defending, a Liberal Party that lavishes its leadership on treachery's most astute practitioner is, quite clearly, beyond the pale

That an unobtrusive reptile can switch genders is interesting enough, although hardly the sort of news you might expect to lead national bulletins. But we're talking warmism here, the sacred cause in whose name no item of settled scientific trivia is ever allowed to go to waste

Here it comes, yet another installment in the endless gush of approved ways in which to react to the latest eruption of Islamic mass murder. Don't make a fuss, just sob and simper,  and do remember to wallow in self-pity. It's so much easier to do that than actually, you know, fight back

A Melbourne crowd watching the Moomba Festival's firework display was engulfed by a race riot on Saturday night -- an eruption of gang violence outnumbered police could do little to stop. Do authorities really need to be reminded that public safety, not revenue-raising, is their primary duty?

The Ray Martin-Shaun Brown examination of the way Q&A goes about its business is a curious document, not for its entirely predictable conclusion that all is more or less OK with the show, but for something mentioned only in passing and, somewhat mysteriously, never placed in context

It was said of Trotsky that, had he never existed, Stalin would have had to invent him, useful as he was for focusing discontent on an elusive, handy enemy. Today, faced with the implacable evil of Islamist assaults, we invent a talking head to diminish our society's will to respond

As always happens when fulminate of Islam explodes on our streets, there has been a great reluctance among profession media sorts to note that the Parramatta shooting has even slightest link to the Muslim faith. It's everyone else's fault, apparently, especially Tony Abbott's

The Abbott government is once again on the back foot, obliged to deny that a former High Court justice is no better than judicial hit man with orders to destroy Labor, its union allies and Bill Shorten. It's slanderous nonsense, of course, but nonsense borne of the Liberals' tin-eared incompetence

If the ABC is on air it is violating its Charter -- as Q&A's latest brazen outrage sinks in, that should be the first and guiding principle of every government MP. If they are worried their critiques might embarrass Malcolm Turnbull, they should remind themselves that he owes them loyalty in return

Defying the homophobes, Victoria's Premier has vowed every student will be exposed to Safe Schools. Since politicians can forget promises, let us help him "live by his own rules" and demand that Muslim students also get their obligatory immersion in the gay lifestyle. After all, that's only fair

Monocultures are prone to infirmity and disease, which perhaps explains The Guardian's laughable attempt to characterise a journalist who believes in free speech as a witless promoter of anti-semitism. When everyone thinks the same, one fool's braying is lost in the racket of the herd

The Guardian Australia, latest media "investment" of Greens mega-donor and internet tycoon Graeme Wood, has accumulated yet more millions of dollars worth of red ink. But don't dismiss that or similar ventures as a rich man's folly. The real gains don't show up on a balance sheet

The old joke is that ABC stands for "all but conservatives". Well here's the chance to change that by applying to fill one of the vacancies on the broadcaster's Advisory Council. There are no guarantees, of course, but a smattering of Quadrant readers might just make for interesting meetings

Is it worth noting that, yet again, the ABC has violated any and all notions of fairness, balance and professional decorum, courtesy of Tony Jones and the Q&A crew? Probably not. It is not as if our PM's new Communications Minister is the sort to give his master's promoters a dose of salts

60 Minutes veteran Ray Martin is investigating how Q&A goes about its business. While we can guess that his appraisal will be sanguine, with perhaps a few small suggestions thrown in, what the ABC won't reveal is how much he is being paid. Good work if you can get it