The great thing about science is that it’s self-correcting. The good drives out the bad -- or so I used to think

Adelaide has a new super-university formed from a merger of the old prestigious Adelaide University with the University of South Australia, a glorified former College of Advanced Education.

When the future President quizzed lawyer and mentor Roy Cohn, the advice was 'you play the man, not the ball'

The deracinated romantics who set the terms of much of the debate are enthralled with diversity, deeming it a virtue to declare oneself a citizen of the world. The influx of the supposed dispossessed is the cleansing of the colonial soul, the revenge of the oppressed

We should take a leaf out of Douglas Adams’ Guide and send our overpaid, overstaffed public sector on a one-way trip to outer space.

We have only speculative knowledge regarding much of the life of the poet, civil servant, courtier and fourteenth-century man in the street, Geoffrey Chaucer.

Western therapeutic approaches to terrorism fail because they deny extremists agency and treat zealots as victims

Labor retained office supremely confident about its political management but with an alarmingly thin policy platform, especially about defence

Bowen’s EV Policy is Driving Us Off a Cliff

Unless definitions are narrow, rigid and clear, any attempt to limit freedom of expression because some opinions are deemed intolerable inevitably leads to the suppression of free and frank discussion. Unfortunately, our world is not made for narrow, rigid and clear definitions

It’s a struggle to understand why the Albanese government has cut English standards for migrants, but the consequences are clear

A short, tragic life marked by bad choices at every turn ends in prison. Where does the coroner turn for advice? To race-hustling academics

Margaret Olley's love affair was always with Europe. On this fact turns the extraordinarily silly question of whether she was really an Australian painter

A working group of alarmists and skeptics could never produce a coherent report. Opinions are too bifurcated, polarised, split asunder

In conversation with Samuel Andreyev: 'If you’re going to build an ark, you need some unicorns aboard -- and that’s what artists are'

The Reef's doomsayers need to explain acropora, which their own kind of science says shouldn't be there. But it is and it's thriving

Economics might well be the dismal science, but Jacob Soll's history of the free market is anything but dull reading

Migration without cultural cohesion makes relativism the default morality even as it hollows out the societies new arrivals leave behind

I feel a terrible sense of despair when I watch or read about our inhumanity towards one another. If history is any guide it will only get worse

Lepanto was not the victory of Christianity over Islam, nor is its significance to be considered primarily in religious terms or as a clash of civilisations

In nearly every aspect of our national life, the special advantages being given to those with even a smidgen of Maori genetic inheritance are now firmly enshrined

The UK is branding protest as terrorism and transforming police from servants of the people to political enforcers

Repudiating the claim that Tibet is part of 'greater China', the Dalai Lama clings to hope of autonomy for his occupied homeland

Ugly scenes this week at Lord's are yet another reminder that cricket and its code of gentlemanly behaviour are honoured often in the breach. So it has always been, as Roger Underwood reminded Quadrant readers in 2011. Today, as the Long Room's chinless Poms sustain their apoplexy with choruses of 'Cheat!' and 'Shame!', it's worth revisiting England's original crimes against sportsmanship, 'the spirit of the game' and, ultimately, one of their own, Harold Larwood

Four Corners examined the unprecedented rise in cancers, some of which are up by 500%. Guess what wasn't mentioned: Covid vaccines

Being orphaned, a term in juvenile detention, even a stint in boarding school -- all now qualify for 'Stolen Generation' payouts

As a writer with much on his mind, he frequently excerpted his own earlier works, always with the good sense to recognise his best lines

What the government and its tame judges are doing is extremely serious, not least because it is a model for those who would do likewise here

Robert Manne and Richard Flanagan are not bold seekers of truth. They are posturing priests of a secular orthodoxy that tolerates no dissent

If you take at face value any claim promoted by Gaza's Hamas-controlled media machine you are as gullible as the reporters retailing it are shameless