Unless a macabre fascination with the death throes of two once-decent newspapers is your motivation, it is likely you no longer waste time and money on The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, its even more addled Fairfax stablemate. Every now and then, however, something worth reading slips through the filter of undergrad sensibilities and […]

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Want to banish the darkness with those special, vigil-night candles that burnish an already elevated sense of self-esteem? Simple! Grab an issue — this week’s catalyst for moral preening is, once again, boat people — and all the usual suspects will turn out to denounce the Coalition, accuse Immigration Minister Scott Morrison of Nazi tendencies […]

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The case notes suggest that only a medical miracle-worker can put the condition imperilling Australia’s healthcare system into remission, not to mention getting the legacy of a big-spending, long-gone Prime Minister off the Abbott government’s back.

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In reporting on the downfall and conviction of brothel-creeping ex-union chief, parliamentarian and serial liar Craig Thomson, the ABC reports everything — except for one small detail. Follow the link below and see if you can spot what the national broadcaster neglected to mention. Hint: It is a political party whose name begins with “L”, […]

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Andrew Bolt has posted an enigmatic item at his blog, writing that his employer’s gun-shy lawyers forced him to spike a blog post. The columnist, you might recall, came to grief in the courtroom of Judge Mordecai Bromberg, who ruled that he had stoked the fires of racial animosity by daring to note that some […]

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At Catallaxy Files, poster Samuel J reveals the real reason the planet has not been getting any hotter: …an Australian-led team of researchers has found that an uptick in the breeding of cats in the Pacific region is most likely to be behind the hiatus. The study found that the cats were spewing fur balls […]

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Forbes magazine is effusive in hailing the essay by the CSIRO’s former  chief research scientist in the January-February Quadrant, now on sale: ‘Climate scientists have been profoundly defensive about the known problems. Paltridge elegantly explains that this has to be the case, and describes the likely horrific consequences when the day of reckoning finally arrives. […]

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In addition to Quadrant‘s dinners with Daniel Hannan in Sydney and Canberra, the Centre for Independent Studies is sponsoring two lunches with the visiting member of the European Parliament and author of How We Invented Freedom And Why It Matters. Follow the link for details of the Perth and Melbourne events.

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Call it Quadrant Online’s tortured-with-a-hot-muffler moment. Early this morning, February 6, 2014, we published a letter purportedly written by a serving naval officer in which the ABC was taken to task for its reporting of Operation Sovereign Borders. Quadrant Online declined to name the alleged author until the provenance of the letter could be verified. […]

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When Joe Dolce was banned from Overland for the sin of also appearing in Quadrant, he wrote to the Australia Council for guidance. As dispensers of taxpayer cash, surely the arts wallahs must object? Follow the link to read the astonishing response.

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