May 2015 Volume LIX, Number 5, No. 516
Hasluck, Salty Language and Quadrant’s Misogyny
Kant vs. Hobbes on the Ukraine Front
The Burka’s Veiled Insult
Losing Faith in Democracy
Must We Blame Sociology?
BoreCons and the Doctrine of Dullness
Contents
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SIR: Philip Ayres has written a perceptive review of Geoffrey […]May 1, 2015
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Churchill would have recognised in an instant what Russia's mischief in Ukraine portends, most particularly its brazen disregard for national borders and neighbours' sovereignty. His appraisal of the nasty and brutish is lost on those who fail to notice that quoting the law leaves outlaws unimpressedMay 1, 2015
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The cloth that obliterates the face sends a message of separation and rejection, so it is no surprise that Australians of non-Muslim backgrounds are appalled. By blacking-out and demeaning womanhood, an implanted culture bares its contempt for a tolerant and easy-going hostMay 16, 2015
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There was a time, now fading from memory, when laws were made by legislatures. Today, look not to elected representatives for the setting of laws, but to the judges whose keen eye for identifying formerly unrecognised "rights" would appear to be boundlessMay 25, 2015
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Sociology is an honourable discipline founded over a century ago […]
May 1, 2015
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While ideological conservatives hunger for the bold reforms of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, voters in these troubled times respond not to radical rhetoric but reassurance. Tony Abbott has taken note, as next week's budget will demonstrateMay 8, 2015
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Admiration for Ayn Rand’s autonomous heroes, support for multiculturalism, belief […]
May 1, 2015
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The peacemakers, as has so often been the case, have made war of every imaginable kind more likely -- and that includes military intervention in Iran. If Obama dreams of a legacy, a war his policy of appeasement promoted may well be itMay 29, 2015
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The law will always be a static instrument, but the economy it seeks to govern is dynamic: as rock beats scissors, so does law trump business needs. If the Abbott government wants to be remembered for advancing national prosperity it must dismember our regulatory behemothMay 5, 2015
21 mins
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Despite warnings by moral conservatives, advances in genetics and reproductive technology have created the conditions for a consumer-driven mass eugenics industry. Like it or not, science is about to pose a slather of moral, ethical and societal dilemmasMay 11, 2015
50 mins
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The radical-progressive journal Retrieval, which had church links and was […]
May 1, 2015
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The First Principles Review of the Defence Department has made a number of valid and, indeed, surprising observations and recommendations. What it doesn't do is provide a workable blueprint for implementing those much-needed reformsMay 27, 2015
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The Left impulse has been aggressively hostile, seeking to undermine existing authorities without replacing them. The art it endorses must shock, values have to be deconstructed, meanings exposed as rationalisations for entrenched wealth and privilegeMay 9, 2015
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During those happy days when I was as likely to […]
May 1, 2015
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Horace is said to have advised fellow authors never to […]
May 1, 2015
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Discovering and rediscovering Jean Anouilh, I’m suddenly returned to the […]
May 1, 2015
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Since even before British settlers began to arrive in numbers […]
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In the 1970s a BBC historical mini-series such as Wolf […]
May 1, 2015
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30th March 1827 To His Excellency Lieutenant-General Ralph Darling, Governor […]
May 1, 2015
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Ever inclined to find fault with those who did not recognise him for the genius he took himself to be, Anders Breivik's life was a catalogue of fantasies and failure. His one achievement, if that is the right word, has been to strengthen the multiculturalists. On one side angels, on the other devilsMay 21, 2015
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This Tattooed Land by Derek Parker Publisher’s Apprentice, 2014, 130 […]
May 1, 2015
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Anzac’s Long Shadow: The Cost of Our National Obsession by […]
May 1, 2015
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Ludwig Wittgenstein: Ein biographisches Album edited by Michael Nedo C.H. […]
May 1, 2015
12 mins
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The Children Act by Ian McEwan Jonathan Cape, 2014, 213 […]
May 30, 2015
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To end up as a Christian is to swim against the Australian tide. Most of my contemporaries have, with varying degrees of relief, jettisoned religion. I respect their reasons for doing so. But my experience may, possibly, suggest a way backMay 31, 2015
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So If You Know My Inmost And since you’ve […]
May 1, 2015
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The Dawning of Sadness I see now that this […]
May 1, 2015
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A Satisfying Answer Out of nothing popped something rushing […]
May 1, 2015
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Reflection He leads a pied stallion across a paddock […]
May 1, 2015
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Waiting for the Woodman A mudpack of pigs on devastated […]
May 1, 2015
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Among the Leaves The first to come peers without malice […]
May 1, 2015
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The Swede More like a deformed animal than a vegetable, […]
May 1, 2015
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At the Sheridan Food Pub in Shannon Airport The dark-eyed […]
May 1, 2015
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Service Records Complexion: dark, colour of eyes: grey, Oath […]
May 1, 2015
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