Readers who enjoy a good Christmas song might have followed the recent kerfuffle about Baby, It’s Cold Outside, which set angry feminists (is there any other sort?) to complaining that it is an endorsement of date rape and the drugging of innocent women. They complained and, as is the way of the world these days, […]

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Tony Thomas, fresh from eye surgery, writes: I was waiting around at Sunbury Day Hospital, north of Melbourne, last week for an eye-cataract job. I reached for a Reader’s Digest half-buried among the Hello and Take 5 pile of magazines. The Digest’s cover lines included “Politicians’ Outrageous Perks: This privileged class is living the high […]

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Life has been quite trying of late at Quadrant, where the relaunch of our website has been more than a little taxing. Much the same could be said, of course, of all fields of human endeavour and, indeed, of existence itself. So, by way of a weekend something to soothe those vexations and bevel life’s […]

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In November’s Quadrant, Gerard Henderson touched on the case of Archbishop Philip Wilson, who today (Dec. 6) saw overturned his conviction for failing to report a pedophile priest some four decades earlier: Now move forward to Tuesday, July 3, 2018, following the conviction in the Newcastle Local Court of Archbishop Philip Wilson of Adelaide, who […]

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If you don’t yet subscribe to Quadrant — and you should, as there would be no website without the magazine that spawned it — make haste to the newsagent’s and pick up our December issue. Tony Abbott’s essay has been lifted from behind the paywall and is now available to all. Other of the month’s […]

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According to the punditocracy, the Liberals are doing very badly because, as Kelly O’Dwyer puts it, her party is chocka with “homophobic, anti-women, climate-change deniers“.  The obvious solution is to recruit and preselect more people like, well, Kelly O’Dwyer, even though a Turnbullian perspective hasn’t been doing her chances of re-election much good. According to […]

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A press release from the Australian Water Association: Melbourne’s water businesses have come together to encourage Indigenous Australians to participate in the water industry. Melbourne Water, South East Water, City West Water and Yarra Valley Water have collectively recruited Terori Hareko-Samios as Senior Project Manager – First Nation Values of Water. Hareko-Samios will help the […]

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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% of […]

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According to interstate sources, life is good elsewhere in Australia on this Saturday in November. But not here in Victoria, where Quadrant Online is based and the state’s citizens will learn tonight the identity of their next government. The polls all say it will be a cakewalk for Labor Premier Daniel Andrews, which is a […]

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In The Australian, Bettina Arndt writes of being approached and interviewed for the SBS documentary Is Australia Sexist? … the independent Perth-based film company Joined Up Films, which did much of the filmmaking, intended to make a more balanced program about sexism. Indeed, they encouraged me to take part because the survey results showed quite […]

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