‘The Persecution of George Pell by Keith Windschuttle … is as good an analysis as one could hope to find … I must say, that after reading this I was persuaded that not only was the standard of proof not met, but that Pell was an innocent man.’ — Gavin Silbert QC, Victorian Chief Crown […]

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The highly readable vivisection of author Bruce Pascoe’s compendium of errors, misrepresentations and misquoted sources depicting Aborigines as sedentary agriculturalists with ‘skills superior to those of the white colonisers who took their land and despoiled it’ is available from Quadrant Books. With the ABC pointedly ignoring any and all critiques of Dark Emu‘s fantasies as […]

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It’s enough to make you feel the battle has been lost once and for all, that truth no longer counts and garlands rest, courtesy of the managerial satraps of which Edwin Dyga writes at left, on the heads of rogues. The latest frolic in the PC cesspit comes courtesy of the Children’s Book Council of […]

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Andrew Stone’s important new book lays out an economic agenda that is coherent and comprehensive, yet politically achievable over the next three to five years by a federal government with the resolve to implement it. Order your copy here. Addressing immigration, the housing market, higher education reform, federal‑state relations, energy policy, workforce participation, welfare reform, […]

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Fresh from preparing the updated and expanded second edition of Bitter Harvest for the printer, Peter O’Brien mulls the ongoing debacle that is Victoria under Daniel Andrews: I hope it’s not just me who finds it infuriating that people keep talking about Victoria’s ‘second wave’.  The state did not have a second wave, a term […]

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A good friend is a truckie — an ‘owner-operator’, as he prefers to be known — but whatever the job description his occupation confers a privilege denied the rest of Daniel Andrews’ subjects: the right to drive hither and yon around greater Melbourne. One of his stops was near Quadrant’s Melbourne office, in Melbourne’s western […]

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John Hinderaker, co-proprietor of the US Powerline blog, makes some observations about the standard of teaching in US public schools, complete with bootleg audio of a teacher demonstrating why the profession is all too often the last refuge of those not quite smart enough to pronounce ‘Want fries with that?’ Our public schools are run, […]

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It’s not that conservatives are lazy, but it must be admitted that the view of the ABC as a nepotism-riddled nest of Labor and Greens cheerleaders is, while in no way incorrect, short of the mark. There is also the issue of basic competence and professional ethics. Consider, for example, the national broadcaster’s sudden inability […]

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