Peter O’Brien writes: The SMH has announced that the ABC has no plans to abandon its long awaited two-part Dark Emu documentary. First announced in 2019, with plans to air in 2020, it disappeared off the radar until this latest announcement.  Recently, I asked ABC MD, David Anderson, if the project had been dropped due […]

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It’s an irony that the late Bruno Ganz, a fine actor whose riveting turn as Adolf Hitler in Downfall made that film, will be remembered not for the body of his work but for the thousands of YouTube parodies inspired by one of the movie’s final scenes. Quite a few are funny, others no better […]

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Friend of Quadrant Christopher Carr has had his COVID jabs and wonders why, having done officialdom’s bidding, he is no better off. He writes: So yet again in this ongoing COVID saga the goal posts have moved. We now read that Scott Morrison hopes Australians will be able to travel overseas by Christmas next year, […]

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A reporter does what good reporter isn’t supposed to do, not only tell the truth on air but explain how those who deviate from the official line come to grief.

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Dark Emu debunkers, professors Sutton and Walshe, talk to 2GB’s Ben Fordham about Bruce Pascoe and the need to get his shameful book out of Australia’s schools — a disgrace Quadrant’s Tony Thomas covered months ago. The Fordham interview can be heard via this link.

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Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor and constitutional law specialist Adrienne Stone (above), of Melbourne University, has penned a paper on the progress through the courts of Peter Ridd’s case against James Cook University, now heading to the High Court after the initial ruling in his favour was overturned on appeal: The case of Ridd v James […]

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In the piece to the left on our homepage, Augusto Zimmermann mentions in passing how the theory COVID-19 escaped from that Wuhan lab is gaining credibility and currency. This will come as no surprise to many with the wit to have made an educated assumption at the time: mystery virus emerges almost within walking distance […]

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The mother of US blogger Sarah Hoyt really should have had a stern word with her daughter about salty language and an unladylike tongue, but excuses in this instance can be made. She’s writing of the COVID public health debacle, its costs and victims, those who profited and those who have been relentlessly screwed since […]

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Every year around this time the Archibald Prize and its preliminaries remind the tax-paying public of the gulf between state-sponsored ‘art’ and the real thing. This year’s lesson is particularly sharp. Mark Powell on the Archibald’s banishment of beauty Above, a detail of Johannes Leak’s portrait of Jacinta Price, which can be viewed in its […]

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