Big Sister ♥ Jane
There is every chance Quadrant readers were cautioned by parents to select their friends with care because the world would judge them by the company they keep: associate with bigots or nitwits and people will think you are cut from the same cloth.
It’s sound, simple advice whose benefits extend well beyond childhood — advice eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant might be well advised to consider. She is, after all, a civil servant who thrives on the public teat to the tune of almost $445,000 a year, plus taxpayer-funded jaunts to the World Economic Forum for confabs with fellow members of the global elite who know, and know absolutely, what the little people of our planet should be allowed to say, read, watch, drive, emit and eat.
Some might think that turning up at Davos, let alone buying into its agenda, indicates a very definite worldview, but as the alpine gabfest draws participants from both sides of Australian politics it would be difficult to claim eKaren is…
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Sep 02 2024
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The Society of Jesus mourns the death of Father Gerald (“Gerry”) O’Collins SJ AC. Fr O’Collins died in Melbourne on Thursday 22 August at the age of 93. He had been a Jesuit for 74 years and a priest for 61 years.
Aug 31 2024
3 mins
How could it not be the Jews? That was the immediate surmise of, let us be frank, noxiously aggressive bigots and anti-Semites. Tayah’s restaurant was in Caulfield, the heart of Jewish Melbourne, there was a synagogue nearby.
Aug 30 2024
4 mins