The risk today in Australia is that rising community unease about terrorist attacks will turn into anger. That risk heightens when public spokespeople dissimulate. Honesty is important -- not the platitudes of niceness about Islam being a peaceful religion

I want to open by standing back to set the […]

There are two European paintings of the first rank in […]

The discontents of our time lie squarely in the domain […]

Much of the intelligentsia has turned against the West's high-cultural tradition that has sought the true, the beautiful and the good. Rather, it has set to assailing our customs, traditions and institutions, with issues -- refugees are the latest -- taken up as cudgels to assault the civic order

The Left impulse has been aggressively hostile, seeking to undermine existing authorities without replacing them. The art it endorses must shock, values have to be deconstructed, meanings exposed as rationalisations for entrenched wealth and privilege