When Quadrant contributor Augusto Zimmermann posted a Facebook notice about an upcoming conference that will address the rising tide of anti-Christian sentiment he had no reason to anticipate trouble: a civilised gathering, courteous speakers, ideas expounded and explored. What’s not to like? Well Facebook begged to differ. As the notification reproduced above explains, some unnamed […]

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UPDATE: The Australia Council responds to the query below (emphasis added): Our systems update is still underway, and we expect to return to a dynamic interface for awarded grants information as soon as this is complete. We are unable to provide a completion date at this stage, but will continue to update the public via […]

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In his analysis of George Pell’s conviction and sentencing, Quadrant contributor Peter Wales describes the many layers of vestments the then-archbishop was wearing at the time prosecutors assert he molested two 13-year-old choiristers.

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Mark Steyn on the conclusion of the so-called Russiagate investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller: ….notwithstanding Mueller closing up shop, the most disturbing questions remain: Forget the Russian trolls and Macedonian content farmers; this is a story not of foreign subversion of the election, but of domestic subversion of the election, by powerful figures able […]

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Less than 30 people attended the Sleeping Giants/Getup! protest outside the Sydney Convention Centre on March 20. The reputation of social media and its ability to change the world has suffered some recent setbacks. First came the revelation by Andrew Burrell in The Australian that a fearsome protest movement against the News Corp TV channel […]

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At Spiked, Brendan O’Neill addresses the ghoulish relish — a particularly noxious example is reproduced above — with which the Left has taken up the Christchurch massacre as a cudgel to beat, shame and silence those it detests, which is to say all who disagree. The finger-pointing at the media in the aftermath of Friday’s […]

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While the sentencing of George Pell attracted much coverage over the past week, with the Cardinal’s foes decrying any questioning of the jury’s “manifestly ludicrous” decision, the final resolution of another case hanging on allegations of clerical sexual abuse of a child flew largely beneath the radar. Like the accusations that have put a conservative […]

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While not one of the world’s great newspapers, readers might still expect the Byron Shire News to nevertheless maintain some sort of standards. Editor Christian Morrow apparently sets his own, as per the clip from a recent edition reproduced above. For those with less than perfect eyesight, Editor Morrow writes: A cardinal sexually assaulting school […]

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Justice, Victoria-style, as seen from abroad: Cardinal George Pell was exactly where he should have been Wednesday night in Melbourne: in jail. Let Henry David Thoreau explain: “Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison” (Civil Disobedience). Now that the peculiar “suppression order” in Australia […]

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