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Over the past two weeks, since the release of the Durham Report (in full here) scuttling any and all claims that Donald Trump owed his 2016 election to Russian mischief, one minor question has intrigued Australian taxpayers who underwrote Sarah Ferguson’s globe-girdling jaunt in pursuit of what she breathlessly billed as “the story of the […]

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This book is a new vision of the most divisive political issue in Australia today Aboriginal politics are now dominated by demands for reconciliation, self-determination, and acknowledgment of culture. But these concepts – defined and promoted by an urban elite of educated Aboriginal activists – hide the bigger truth that most people of Aboriginal descent […]

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Australian voters are not being told the truth about the proposal for constitutional recognition of indigenous people. The goal of Aboriginal political activists today is to gain ‘sovereignty’ and create a black state, equivalent to the existing states. Its territory, com­prising all land defined as native title, will soon amount to more than 60 per […]

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Janet Albrechtsen’s latest coverage of the Sofronoff hearings in Canberra poses any number of questions about Director of Public Prosecutions Shane Drumgold’s seemingly monomaniacal drive to charge Bruce Lehrmann with the alleged Parliament House rape of Brittany Higgins. And there is this as well: The Australian understands that text messages between Higgins and her partner, […]

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Peter O’Brien’s newly published case for rejecting the Voice will be launched at 6.00pm this Thursday, May 11, at Il Gambero restaurant, 166 Lygon Street in Carlton, where Tony Thomas will officially launch the book.  Tickets ($6) can be ordered here, with last-minute walk-ins also welcome. More than a chance to meet the author, the evening […]

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Back in 2014, as the Victorian Liberals limped and stumbled towards their November defeat at the polls, James Allan wrote at Quadrant Online about the problems that cursed them then and still: … the party was given the chance by the pre-selection battle for the seat of Hawthorn to bring in new blood — the […]

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Online magaine Reduxx, which bills itself as “Pro-Woman. Pro-Child Safeguarding. Anti-Bullsh*t” recently followed up on a story first aired by the Daily Mail, that of an American-born man who has been leading the goal-scorers’ table in the NSW League One Women’s 1st Grade soccer competition. The Mail reported that “thousands” of complaints had been received […]

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A joke, until now muttered only half-seriously by some few of those Australian journalists who might be described as on the right, holds that, in the event of Rupert Murdoch’s death, The Australian will be indistinguishable from the Silly Morning Herald within the month. Judging by the latest News Corp developments in the US, Rupert […]

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It has been no secret this past week that Australia was about to lose Barry Humphries, who passed away in Sydney’s St Vincent’s hospital on Saturday. Thirteen years ago, upon the publication of Handling Edna: The Unauthorised Biography, reviewer Mark McGinness observed in Quadrant … no one has Humphries’s ear for dialogue or his eye […]

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