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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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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In a recent edition of The Monthly, Russell Marks looks at Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu and concedes that Pascoe ‘regularly exaggerates and embellishes’. Here is his example: But throughout Dark Emu, Pascoe regularly exaggerates and embellishes. One example: he quotes Thomas Mitchell’s description of large, circular, chimneyed huts Mitchell observed near Mount Arapiles, in western Victoria, […]

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On Tuesday morning, Aboriginal Affairs minister Ken Wyatt could tap the wisdom of three people in regard to the ‘Voice” thing. They were Josephine Cashman, who recently complained to the Australian Federal Police that the Dark Emu author is a fraud, and her two fellow panellists, professors Marcia Langton and Tom Calma. By Tuesday night, […]

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Readers of the Weekend Australian will have enjoyed Geoffrey Blainey’s feature essay on Captain Cook and his voyages — a theme also addressed by Quadrant‘s Keith Windschuttle, at left, in a column we first published in 2018 and reprise today for the Australia Day holiday. Blainey’s article has inspired a series of spirited debates in […]

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One of the most interesting things about the Dark Emu affair is the fact that a story of genuine public interest — a book of fractured scholarship lionised by the ABC and whose gross misrepresentations are being foisted on schoolchildren — has incited so little curiosity on the part of the mainstream press. You can […]

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Who says the ABC doesn’t do comedy anymore? Here’s an experiment, the result of which ABC viewers will know in advance: Switch the telly to the national broadcaster and count the seconds until the words “climate change” are uttered. If five minutes pass without mention being made, check your remote controller, as it won’t be […]

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After months battling bushfires, Jamberoo RFS Brigade deputy captain Lindsay “Mongo” Delamont puts a cold beer to good use as he settles into his hammock and Quadrant author Peter O’Brien’s exposé of Dark Emu‘s faux history. The highly readable vivisection of author Bruce Pascoe’s compendium of errors, misrepresentations and misquoted sources depicting Aborigines as sedentary […]

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Dave Pellowe, whose blog is always worth a visit, has put up an interesting post on peer review, scientific fraud and papers whose findings defy replication.  A sample: …People who consider “peer-reviewed science” alone or give it disproportionate weight when considering public policy are unhelpfully naive about the dynamic nature of science. They pour scorn […]

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The ABC today reports that a fleet of the biggest water-bombing aircraft money can lease is on the way to Australia, albeit subject to a delay occasioned by what the national broadcaster describes in a semi-literate and hyperbolic headline as “international disasters”. These turn out to be winter snow in Canada, tornadoes in the American […]

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