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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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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When Quadrant subscriber Stephen read Tony Thomas’ article on the myth of the Stolen Generations he was reminded of his days as NSW child welfare officer. He writes: I’m 70 but my memories of working as an Examiner (a junior clerk) in the State Wards Branch of the NSW Child Welfare Department in 70/71 remain […]

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The High Court this morning (Oct 13) rejected Professor Peter Ridd’s appeal, outlining its reasoning in the summary reproduced below (emphasis added): Today, the High Court unanimously dismissed an appeal from a judgment of the Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia. The appeal concerned the scope of the intellectual freedom protected by a […]

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Some weeks back, Essential Reading noted that, if officialdom’s assurances about post-jab side effects being ‘one-in-a-million’ are correct, then journalists must be a specifically vulnerable subset in an otherwise little troubled general population. With total numbers of  Australian journos coming to no more than, say, 10,000, two that we know of have been hospitalised with […]

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The common reaction amongst most Australians at mention of the word ‘Victoria’ must surely be an immediate gratitude that they don’t have to live in Premier Daniel Andrews’ basketcase state. That impression may well be bolstered by IBAC hearings which began today into Labor’s rorting, not least the Red Shirts scandal of 2015-16 which VicPol […]

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Victoria formally adopted vaccine apartheid yesterday as the law in Danland, complete with a long, long list occupations obliged to be vaccinated at pain of being sent to purdah. No jab/no job, that sort of thing. Interestingly, the exemptions highlighted above appears to acknowledge what many have long known: public servants aren’t workers. (h/t Mater […]

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At Melbourne’s Royal Childrens Hospital Gender Centre, which is doing a roaring business these days, treatment for children who believe themselves born into the wrong bodies starts with puberty blockers and proceeds to hormones, as the website explains: 1/ Puberty suppression: Puberty blockers – prescribed by a paediatrician or paediatric endocrinologist. Puberty blockers suppress the […]

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As the dust settles after Gladys Berejiklian’s resignation and what is reported to be the imminent elevation of Dominic Perrottet to the post of NSW premier, Australia’s newsroom hacks thought they heard the faint tinkle of sanctus bells and made like Pavlov’s dogs, slobbering hints and imputations about the danger of having a leader who […]

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