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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
Letters to the Editor
Our God-Given Rights
SIR: Peter Barclay (November 2011) highlights accurately the attacks on individual freedom by the Left which are well under way throughout all Western democracies. These attacks under the guise of “equality in everything” and “capitalism is bad”, if allowed to continue, will finally bring to heel all free people.
Christianity, which is the basis of our laws in particular, is a target for the elitist Left. It knows that to control the masses, Christianity needs to be relegated to the dustbin. Witness attacks in the USA by left-wing activists with support from left-wing media on Christianity in that country. For example, on the Golf Channel the reference to God in the pledge of allegiance was deliberately removed. American society was founded on the principle that the people have inalienable rights bestowed upon them by God. It is this tenet which is under attack.
Leftists know they have to remove God from the equation in order to finally control the…
Madam: Archbishop Fisher (July-August 2024) does not resist the attacks on his church by the political, social or scientific atheists and those who insist on not being told what to do.
Aug 29 2024
6 mins
To claim Aborigines have the world's oldest continuous culture is to misunderstand the meaning of culture, which continuously changes over time and location. For a culture not to change over time would be a reproach and certainly not a cause for celebration, for it would indicate that there had been no capacity to adapt. Clearly this has not been the case
Aug 20 2024
23 mins
A friend and longtime supporter of Quadrant, Clive James sent us a poem in 2010, which we published in our December issue. Like the Taronga Park Aquarium he recalls in its 'mocked-up sandstone cave' it's not to be forgotten
Aug 16 2024
2 mins
