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We are encouraged to rely more and more on government officials to do for us what we could equally well do for ourselves—and, maybe more importantly, not to do what might help us solve our own problems.
Sep 08 2024
10 mins
If we imagine a metric called the Pinocchio Scale, which measures the number of lies told by a politician as a percentage of his or her overall public statements, our current prime minister (for want of a better description), Airbus Albo, has moved well into uncharted territory.
Sep 06 2024
5 mins
Mob Tix: Inclusion or Racism?
When Rosa Parks boarded a Montgomery City Lines bus and staged the protest that would immortalise her, she did so with the courage and defiance of one whose convictions are authentic. The prejudicial segregation of a racial group from another, or the act of apartheid, should be an abhorrent concept to any civilised person, particularly the educated Australian. How distressing, then—how regressive, how divisive, and how racist—that, for an untold period, various Australian arts organisations and institutions have been racially segregating their patrons at the box office.
On September 12, it emerged in The Australian that the Sydney Opera House, the Australian Ballet, the National Gallery of Australia, the Sydney and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras and the Sydney Fringe Festival were all administering race-based ticketing schemes that afford sizeable discounts to Aboriginal Australian patrons. I could not believe this news when I first encountered it; in all my seasons of concert…
If we imagine a metric called the Pinocchio Scale, which measures the number of lies told by a politician as a percentage of his or her overall public statements, our current prime minister (for want of a better description), Airbus Albo, has moved well into uncharted territory.
Sep 06 2024
5 mins
The Editor of Quadrant Music, Alexander Voltz, has won the symphonic section of the prestigious George Enescu International Competition in Bucharest.
Sep 03 2024
1 mins
The Justice’s legal analysis is superficially plausible but, nevertheless, the judgment is woefully woke. This is because the law, even if it were argued that the Court correctly applied the law, is incompatible with the biological fact that there are two sexes.
Sep 01 2024
14 mins
