The ABC today reports that a fleet of the biggest water-bombing aircraft money can lease is on the way to Australia, albeit subject to a delay occasioned by what the national broadcaster describes in a semi-literate and hyperbolic headline as “international disasters”. These turn out to be winter snow in Canada, tornadoes in the American […]

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Quadrant Online has this week published four of our contributors’ thoughts and regrets on the passing of Sir Roger Scruton. The Spectator has more, much more, from the likes of Daniel Hannan, Timothy Garton Ash, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, William Shawcross and many others. Unfortunately their paeans remain behind a paywall, needed to support publications such […]

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Writing in National Review, Quadrant‘s John O’Sullivan recommends an evening’s at-home entertainment, although not without qualification, and makes this point: … the MPs in all parties who privately opposed Brexit — a shifting majority, larger or smaller depending on circumstance and how far party discipline had broken down — gradually came to think that they […]

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  The kangaroo had no inclination nor the emu that not walking backwards might be an impediment to escape, and that their forward trajectory was quickly enveloping them into a smoky dreaming from which ever forward, there was no return. Skippy and Emu along with Cuddlepot and Snugglepie joyfully sewed pyroclastic fuel into the hopeful, […]

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The ever-modest James Delingpole, who has a nice word for Quadrant and climate scam roundsman Tony Thomas, on the tenth anniversary of Climategate: … What Climategate revealed, however, is that the climate change “experts” we’re supposed to trust just aren’t trustworthy. They lie, they cheat, they’re motivated more by grant-troughing and dodgy political activism than […]

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Mark Steyn on Washington’s ongoing impeachment burlesque: In a functioning system, the head of the government sets foreign policy and the diplomats enact it. So naturally there’s not a chance of that in Washington. When Taylor and Kent whine that there seemed to be a “shadow foreign policy”, the shadow is theirs; they spent a […]

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In his marking of Climategate’s tenth anniversary, Tony Thomas notes how in 2015 “Prime Minister Tony Abbott set in train an audit of Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology’s temperature adjustments that increased Australia’s apparent warming, but one of the first moves of his successor, Malcolm Turnbull, was to scuttle that audit.” Add another noxious legacy to […]

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The temptation when the Left gets very silly is to smile, perhaps shake the head and then put the latest idiocy, whatever it might be, out of mind. It does sensible people no good to dwell on the lunatic follies of others, and there are so many stunts and campaigns, protests and causes there is […]

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Much to what one imagines is the immense surprise of Australia’s finest legal minds — self-proclaimed or so regarded — the High Court has accepted Cardinal George Pell’s application for leave to appeal. Apart from presenting the Cardinal with his last, best hope of overturning an absurd conviction, it is also a moment to marvel […]

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