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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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As forester Vic Jurskis notes  (at left) in his dismantling of the ABC’s latest attempt to portray the Black Summer fires as the result of global warming rather than chronic mismanagement of the bush, the national broadcaster isn’t worth much when facts and history are crucial. But every so often, blind pig-style, it turns up […]

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In comments, Quadrant subscriber Ianl sums up the sad state of Victoria: Vic Parliament is closed. Andrews will again be given extended emergency powers by the Upper House dribblers, ensuring the Parliament remains closed. I have read that the State Governor’s dismissal power is now removed by Act of (closed) Parliament so all Andrews needs […]

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              Just in case Victoria’s Police Academy has lost its copy, here are Sir Robert Peel’s principles of policing: 1/ To prevent crime and disorder, as an alternative to their repression by military force and severity of legal punishment. 2/ To recognise always that the power of the police to fulfill their functions and duties […]

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Videographer and blogger Topher Field live-streamed Melbourne’s anti-lockdown protest. Ninety minutes of footage can be viewed here: https://www.facebook.com/TopherField/videos/598737031502075

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On the twentieth anniversary of the mass slaughter that launched the most recent Afghan war, Roger Kimball writes: We spent 20 years and trillions of dollars in Afghanistan—for what? To try to coax it into the 21st century and assume the enlightened, “woke” perspective that has laid waste to the institutions of American culture, from […]

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The ex called from New York this morning, not quite sure why she wanted to hear my voice other than the certain knowledge that I, too, would be thinking of what happened 20 years ago. She felt that remembering what we shared and saw that day and later was, well, our private memorial to all […]

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Water finds its own level and it seems ratbag conspiracy theorists operate according to the same principle. The proof came in the recent 4Corners‘ two-part “expose” of Rupert Murdoch’s alleged control of all that is wicked and crawls  beneath the sun, the only champions of the good being those heroic talking heads at the ABC […]

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