It is more than a cliche to say that it is better for the guilty to go free than for an innocent person to be convicted. The failure of a prosecution, particularly a difficult prosecution, is not, therefore, necessarily a criticism of those represented the Crown. That is not, however, the way elements of the press saw the sensational acquittal of the original Doctor Death

Wounded twice, first at Gallipoli and later on the Western Front, the man who is perhaps our most overlooked Prime Minister confided the thought he had been spared for a reason. That purpose, as Paul Hasluck noted upon his death in 1967, was to serve Australia. In that cause, at home and abroad, he admirably succeeded

Modern elites are tyrants of tolerance, saying: 'You must heed what I say, then either praise my virtue or shut up. If you try to say you disagree and why, you deserve to be, and you will be, hounded out of all decent society.' Thus do they pay lip-service, but only lip-service, to freedom of religion

The Break-Up of Australia: The Real Agenda Behind Aboriginal Recognition […]

Some 13 years ago, the soon-to-be High Court judge addressed a Quadrant dinner -- an appearance his detractors now profess to find appalling. "The duty of a court is not to make law or debate the merits of particular laws," he said that night, "but to do justice according to law." Here is that same speech

From his mother's pro-Nazi employer, who paid for a first-rate education, to escaping the odium visited upon Sir John Kerr after the Whitlam dismissal, the future governor-general's life and career was blessed by fate and happenstance at almost every turn