December 2014 Volume LVIII, No. 512
Gough’s Betrayal
John Howard, History Warrior
Present in Spirit
Sanity and the National Curriculum
Conniving in Constitutional Illiteracy
The Persecution of Barry Spurr
Contents
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Whitlam and the Vietnamese SIR: In his failure to rescue—indeed […]December 1, 2014
3 mins
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Gough Whitlam's idolators and hagiographers would have us believe he swept away the fusty somnolence of the Menzies years, bringing Australia to life with the kiss of his enlightened concern. A better Prime Minister and superior writer, John Howard demonstrates in his latest book that truth is another of the left's casualtiesDecember 1, 2014
8 mins
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Ours was a lively celebration of Christopher Pearson, a gathering of friends who dined on memories of a man who will always be missed, but whose mind and well-turned words live on in a newly published collection of his essays
December 1, 2014
8 mins
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All too often couched in New Age jargon and psychobabble, the prevailing orthodoxy insists even the teaching of mathematics and science must be viewed through a politically correct prism focused on indigenous, Asian and sustainability perspectives. It is no way to open minds -- or secure a nation's futureDecember 4, 2014
26 mins
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While textbook pages are devoted to Karl Marx, to socialism and the struggle of the working man, nineteenth-century liberalism is almost totally neglected. How is it possible to omit so much, remembering always that this excision is but one of many in the systematic stripping of the pastDecember 12, 2014
15 mins
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There would be no University of Sydney without men like the hacked and hounded professor, and there would be no Australia without the Western civilisation he defends. Both the University of Sydney and Australia could get along just fine without Socialist Alternative and its idea of Friday afternoon sportDecember 10, 2014
12 mins
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One in three children believe Winston Churchill to have been the first man on the moon, according to a recent survey that emnphasised the appalling ignorance of what was once known as common and essential knowledge. Quiz them, however, about the drug-addled antics of the latest gossip-page staple and it's top marks all aroundDecember 27, 2014
25 mins
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On an evening in April 1956 Soviet leaders Nikita Khrushchev […]
December 1, 2014
48 mins
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Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism by Larry […]
December 1, 2014
11 mins
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Talk of "culture" prompted Herman Goering to reach for his gun. Not to make common cause with one of the Third Reich's nastier specimens, but when I hear terms like "context", that all-purpose excuse and rationaliser, I'm glad there isn't a loaded Luger close at handDecember 6, 2014
12 mins
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Ever blameless, forever beset by sexism and now, courtesy of the TURC interim report, unlikely ever to stand in the dock, the Moaner from Altona chronicles her years in The Lodge in a book that -- surprise! surprise! -- has been swallowed at a gulp by Anne Summers. Expect My Story to be even more avidly consumed by the remainder binDecember 21, 2014
23 mins
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World Order: Reflections on the Character of Nations and the […]
December 1, 2014
14 mins
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Capitalism is the key to overcoming poverty and, as a by-product, to controlling population growth. As history confirms, it is not just the best route to rising and sustainable prosperity, it is the only oneDecember 31, 2014
23 mins
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That the Constitution should be changed, tilting the law in parenting cases towards giving more weight to Aboriginal culture defies belief. And yet, at present, there is a consensus of the main political parties to do just thatDecember 29, 2014
13 mins
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After the Second World War, Aboriginal men across Australia seized […]
December 1, 2014
11 mins
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Writers describing a place in which some event of importance […]
November 1, 2014
10 mins
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Traveling incognito and with help from 'six stalwart Meccans', Sir Richard Francis Burton eventually reached the Black Stone -- a meteorite, he thought -- when some Bedouin turned on him for being too pushy. They had no daggers and resembled 'living mummies', leading Burton to recall he 'could have managed single-handed half a dozen of them'August 7, 2024
14 mins
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Now considered canonical, there was a time when Dubliners risked […]
December 1, 2014
6 mins
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This is the text of the first Axel Clark Memorial […]
December 1, 2014
27 mins
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Novelist, playwright, story writer, poet. So fine a writer may […]
December 1, 2014
6 mins
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In 1980 Peter Hall, Director of Britain’s National Theatre, received […]
December 1, 2014
11 mins
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Over the years I have become increasingly aware of the […]
December 1, 2014
7 mins
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Come November my wife and I make our way down […]
December 1, 2014
10 mins
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It was a sunny day in August 1917. From where […]
December 1, 2014
12 mins
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Ten African Cardinals by Sally Ninham Connor Court, 2013, 367 […]
December 1, 2014
7 mins
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Dick Hamer: The Liberal Liberal by Tim Colebatch Scribe, 2014, […]
December 1, 2014
9 mins
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In Melbourne alone, three parliamentary seats are held by Labor courtesy of Muslim votes. This is change on a tectonic scale, and that makes the official refusal to acknowledge the inclination to violence of Islam's more ardent strains very worrying indeedDecember 23, 2014
10 mins
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Cafes and shops are closing in the little country town. […]
December 1, 2014
1 mins
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On hearing of the re-emergence of epilepsy in our family […]
December 1, 2014
5 mins
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Iron Family On the early eastern growth corridor between […]
December 1, 2014
1 mins
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Cancer A tenant has moved in and doesn’t pay the […]
December 1, 2014
2 mins
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Turkey My mother’s father, held in place by work […]
December 1, 2014
2 mins
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State of Grace For Vicki Walker’s U3A Poetry Class […]
December 1, 2014
2 mins
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seriously if you want to be taken seriously don’t […]
December 1, 2014
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Dissociation The wind came up as we were talking […]
November 29, 2014
2 mins
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Last Minute Gift Ideas for the Cheating Ex- a bullet […]
December 1, 2014
4 mins
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On Looking at Ghirlandaio’s Portrait of an Old Man and […]
December 1, 2014
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