The clear assumption by many politicians, public servants, and journalists, is that Australia is inevitably going down the path of “no faith”.

The cover blurb of Dennis Altman’s book, 'God Save the Queen: The Strange Persistence of Monarchies', begins, 'An avowed republican investigates the unexpected durability and potential benefits of constitutional monarchies'. Given the grudging conclusion he reaches, sort of, the pity is that the title isn't 'the strange persistence of republicans'

The Nazis honestly made no bones about it: a race war. Stalin’s opportunistic response of abandoning decades of communist philosophy for a Great Patriotic War was a desperate gamble, which paid off. As Napoleon, the previous dictator to fail in Russia, put it: 'The moral is to the physical as three to one'

There appears to be some delusional belief amongst the Australian […]

Too many historians completely dismiss the first months of World War II as a period which saw the Allied powers sit on their hands, doing little while passively awaiting Germany to make the first move. Nothing could be further from the truth

The general response to the recent book The Road to […]

The myth of a Great Betrayal by Britain during the […]