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Their daze, Abbott’s knights

  • 14th April 2014
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In bemoaning Tony Abbott’s decision to restore Imperial honours, a stunned and baffled commentariat overlooked two things. First, the move was needed to rectify a long-standing anomaly. Second, and more important, very few Australians share the outrage that engulfed left-canted newsrooms and think tanks. David Flint explains….  

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A Sunday roasting…

  • 13th April 2014
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The existence of God is a possibility that has seen chins wagged and brows furrowed for quite some centuries, with the latest wave of assaults on theism attracting a crew of particularly sneering and acerbic sloganeers. If the much-feted and showcased ABC guest Richard Dawkins springs immediately to mind, hold that mental image while reading […]

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Fair is foul at Fairfax

  • 11th April 2014
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You don’t get much for $2.30 these days — half a cup of designer coffee, three cigarettes from a heavily taxed packet and, if you live in Melbourne, a single copy of any Monday-to-Friday edition of The Age. Of the three, The Age represents by far the worst value for money. After all, when you’ve […]

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Labor’s erstwhile followers

  • 9th April 2014
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In commenting on John Izzard’s essay, The March of the Sillytonians, reader IainC observes: “…Labor became infested with hard core fascists during the Cold War, but this fascist rump has largely left the ALP to form and vote for the Greens. Hence the steady drop in the ALP primary vote, leaving socially conservative working class […]

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Two down, lots more to go

  • 3rd April 2014
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Congenital liar Craig Thomson, who believed the job of representing hospital lavatory-cleaners and floor-moppers came with the fringe benefit of hot and cold running girls, has been sentenced to spend a little time in digs far less salubrious than the Sultan’s Suite at the Touch ‘n’ Glow carnal consultancy. Former ALP President and union corruptocrat […]

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Flt 370: A speculative scenario

  • 3rd April 2014
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While no confirmed trace of the vanished Malaysian jetliner has been found, there is no shortage of explanatory theories as to its fate. A fire, stampeding passengers and explosive decompression all mesh with the known facts. If that is indeed what happened, as writer John Duncan suspects, all aboard were dead long before impact

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Of titles and headlines…

  • 2nd April 2014
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With all the talk of late about the return of knights and dames to Australia, almost none of it noting that this was done in New Zealand a few years back to a wider extent and with the end of the world nowhere to be seen, Quadrant contributor James Allan reflects on titles — not […]

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Offensive? Well, That Depends…

  • 27th March 2014
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Funny, isn’t it, what offends those whose antennae are so exquisitely tuned to identifying insult, slight and that universal catch-all, “inappropriate” views? Take quintessential Fairfax columnist Michael Shmith, for example, whose thoughts on the return of knighthoods grace the opinion page of The Age. Didn’t see his missive? Not to worry, Fairfax newspapers are written […]

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A gagged ‘Conversation’

  • 20th March 2014
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“… if The Conversation will not allow me to answer this or any of numerous other unpleasant and often libellous personal attacks, other than in comments under the head postings, the matter will have to be dealt with in different and more impartial forum.” Pilloried from the taxpayer-funded pulpit, Lord Monckton put pen to paper […]

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The long, long march

  • 19th March 2014
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Some of us go to Bunnings of a weekend, potter in the garden or take in sporting spectacles. But how do good leftists prefer to spend the two days of the week officially set aside for not working? Why, they hit the streets with placards and passion, as ‘political theorist’, academic, shaper of young minds […]

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