To place an order click here ________________________ Audio: Keith Windschuttle discusses his book with the ABC’s Andrew West ________________________ The Persecution of George Pell chronicles how the highest levels of the police, judiciary and politicians in Australia, plus victim lobby groups, compensation lawyers, and journalists, used bogus accusations of child sexual abuse to persecute, convict […]

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Ever since Quadrant published Peter O’Brien’s expose of Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu,  the question has been how luvviedom would respond. Initially it was the Left’s tried and tested ‘death by silence’ routine, with Bitter Harvest simply ignored and its skewering of a professional liar’s bid to cast himself as a reputable historian dismissed as unworthy […]

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A mystified Peter O’Brien wonders: I don’t know the total of people admitted to hospital in NSW as part of this Delta outbreak (roughly 3200 cases), but as at July 25, in NSW we have 141 people in hospital of which 43 are in ICU. That seems an extraordinarily high number if judged by the […]

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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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The quote of the day — a day on which lockdowns ordained by public health ‘experts’ show no sign of fading — comes from Thomas Sowell: There always has to be a crisis–some terrible reason why their superior wisdom and virtue must be imposed on the unthinking masses. It doesn’t matter what the crisis is. […]

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It won’t be reported with any degree of sane analysis (‘Killer virus stalks the nation’ etc etc etc), but a small news item out of locked-down Sydney should be enough to give pause to those capable of rational thought — a rare quality, admittedly, in our political class of late. It seems an aged-care worker […]

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Peter O’Brien writes: On Sky News last night (July 14), Chris Kenny, a columnist I admire more than most, made an impassioned plea for the proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament.  He claimed that, since it would only be an advisory body, its advice would not be binding on the government of the day and, therefore, […]

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Readers who enjoyed Mark McGinness’ recent celebration of Marcel Proust might also appreciate an aside by commenter Alice Thermopolis: Gian Balsamo’s 2017 book, Proust and his Banker: In Search of Time Squandered, reveals some fascinating facts about his financial affairs. He was not only obsessed with gains and losses in the lotteries of life and […]

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Peter O’Brien writes: The SMH has announced that the ABC has no plans to abandon its long awaited two-part Dark Emu documentary. First announced in 2019, with plans to air in 2020, it disappeared off the radar until this latest announcement.  Recently, I asked ABC MD, David Anderson, if the project had been dropped due […]

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