At the Coles near Quadrant‘s Melbourne office, the counting of heads allowed into the supermarket at any one time has stopped. At night, when shopper numbers are low, the rat’s maze of serpentine access lanes laid out with red tape is now routinely ignored. At a Western suburbs florist, the proprietor was telling customers a […]

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First-time visitors to Southern California are often struck by the similarities with Australia — the brown-grassed hills of summer, big blue skies, the suburban landscapes of stand-alone homes and, of course, the invasive eucalypts, which are everywhere and, just like here, prime fuel for the wildfires that rake the Golden State with ever more frequent […]

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At Spiked, Norman Lewis raises what is undoubtedly the most pertinent question, so far unaddressed: when the lockdowns end and the Wuhan virus manifests itself once more in a population still lacking herd immunity, what then? As the Covid-19 crisis has progressed, one thing stands out above all else: experts, not politicians, are leading the […]

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Working as she does at the ABC, the High Court’s 7-0 decision freeing Cardinal George Pell from conviction and prison must have come as a huge shock to Louise Milligan. What chance, do you reckon, any fellow inmate of Ultimo or Southbank ever expressed even the mildest reservation about the cardinal’s guilt within her earshot? […]

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In the Herald Sun this week, Jeff Kennett demanded the resignations of the two Court of Appeal judges — Chief Justice Anne Ferguson and Chris Maxwell (above) — who went with the vibe, not the law, in rejecting Cardinal George Pell’s appeal and consigning an innocent man to 405 days behind bars. The column is […]

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In The Australian, this from Janet Albrechtsen …Pell’s legal team had one hand tied behind its back from the start. This was compounded by the flawed judicial method adopted by Chief Justice Anne Ferguson and Court of Appeal president Chris Maxwell. Without the benefit of seeing and listening to the complainant give evidence at trial, […]

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Transfixed by the ABC’s coverage of the High Court’s ruling in the matter of Cardinal George Pell, Quadrant contributor Tony Thomas, a genuine journalist, was appalled by the mockery the ABC’s operatives made of dutiful, thorough, professional reporting. A hopeless optimist, he dashed off the observation below and sent it to the the national broadcaster’s […]

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It isn’t the Ballarat Courier or a printout from the ABC’s own archives Ms Ferguson is studying. UPDATE: The ABC has now taken down Sarah Ferguson’s third installment of Revelation, scratching it from iView and all other platforms. Why was it broadcast in the first place? — rf ____________ When a star reporter and her […]

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Even more pleased with herself than usual With the High Court poised to unveil its decision on Cardinal George Pell’s appeal, it was always a short-odds bet an unprincipled, devious, dishonest and agenda-driven ABC would provide a coda to its years of orchestrated character assassination. Last night, in her usual breathless style, reporter Sarah Ferguson […]

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