One doesn’t turn to the Sydney Morning Herald and its Peter Hartcher for insight but every now and then, blind-pig style, between them they turn up an acorn. With the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, a Hartcher column that went to press in June, 2017, verged on the astute. Here’s a little sample of his thoughts, […]

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The voters of Warringah have spoken: they’re all for renewables and, not being hypocrites, will undoubtedly wish to be seen leading the way to that clean, green future we keep hearing about. Hence the petition which seeks to dot the Manly foreshore and other locations with arrays of wind turbines. You can sign it here, […]

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Christopher Carr, Quadrant contributor, shares some thoughts on Saturday’s result: Whilst getting the broad outcome of the Federal election right in my May piece for Quadrant Online,  “The Comfort of History“, I was sadly wrong in my prediction Tony Abbott would retain Warringah, although I did point to some ominous signs: The richly funded GetUp […]

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There are many misconceptions about the Left, whose louder advocates can strike those not of their tribe as being possessed by a hectoring absolutism. Don’t agree with what they say? You’re worse than wrong, you’re evil! That’s apt to be the take-home impression of any conservative who has survived a Northcote barbecue or Newtown soiree, […]

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Just for the record:

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The video of anti-Abbott cultists (above) clapping themselves into a furious ecstasy was shot early in the week. Today the ABC reports: A man has been charged after a Liberal Party volunteer was stabbed with a corkscrew in former prime minister Tony Abbott’s seat of Warringah on Friday night. A number of volunteers were putting […]

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Eleven years ago, back in 2008, the blog Creeping Sharia was launched on the WordPress platform, the same publishing system used by Quadrant Online. On Sunday, May 12, an item was published that went entirely unreported by the Australian press and received only fleeting attention from mainstream US media: FBI agents had raided and made […]

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From the office of NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian: The family of renowned NSW poet Les Murray AO has accepted the NSW Government’s offer of a State Memorial Service. Mr Murray, considered one of Australia’s greatest poets, passed away peacefully in northern NSW, as area which was the inspiration for much of his work. Known for […]

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At The Tablet, a site well worth bookmarking, Adam Kirsch reviews Richard Evans’ Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History, a biography of the Marxist historian which also attracts the attention of Quadrant‘s William D. Rubinstein in our May edition. Kirsch writes: … Unlike the repentant ex-communists he despised, Hobsbawm never gave up the barbaric doctrine […]

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From Mark Latham’s maiden speech to the NSW Legislative Council. …they preach diversity but practice a suffocating cultural conformity, wanting everyone to be just like them. They argue for inclusion but as soon as a Christian, a conservative, a libertarian, a nationalist, a working class larrikin, an outsider from the vast suburbs and regions of […]

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