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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In 2008, Quadrant‘s Michael Connor assailed the institutional corruption that has turned arts funding into a feedlot for friends and the politically like-minded, which is to say fellow members of the grant-suckled left: “Government interference in the arts, even with good intentions, has created self-censorship, conformity and banality. Though government provides the money, the Left […]

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Q Society of Australia Inc presents First International Symposium on Liberty and Islam in Australia Melbourne 8 to 10 March, 2014 Australians are looking for information, perspectives and better policies. This symposium offers insights and answers. Presentations, workshops and social events in Melbourne’s CBD with: Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, Dr Mordechai Kedar, Dr Ashraf Ramelah, […]

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What do RAN types get up to in their idle hours? Well, when not fishing illegal aliens out of the Indian Ocean, it seems they amuse themselves by torturing those still aboard with red-hot engine mufflers and vicious beatings. Or so the ABC and Fairfax would have us believe. Is it that inhabitants of those […]

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