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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Quadrant Online has this week published four of our contributors’ thoughts and regrets on the passing of Sir Roger Scruton. The Spectator has more, much more, from the likes of Daniel Hannan, Timothy Garton Ash, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, William Shawcross and many others. Unfortunately their paeans remain behind a paywall, needed to support publications such […]

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Writing in National Review, Quadrant‘s John O’Sullivan recommends an evening’s at-home entertainment, although not without qualification, and makes this point: … the MPs in all parties who privately opposed Brexit — a shifting majority, larger or smaller depending on circumstance and how far party discipline had broken down — gradually came to think that they […]

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  The kangaroo had no inclination nor the emu that not walking backwards might be an impediment to escape, and that their forward trajectory was quickly enveloping them into a smoky dreaming from which ever forward, there was no return. Skippy and Emu along with Cuddlepot and Snugglepie joyfully sewed pyroclastic fuel into the hopeful, […]

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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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