April 2016 Volume LX No 4, No. 525
Politicising Arthur Boyd and other matters
The Bullseye on Abbott
The National Security Case for the Abbott Government
A Chance to Correct an Error of Historic Magnitude
Missing Communism
There Is No App for Budget Repair
Contents
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SIR: I am grateful to Christopher Heathcote (March 2016) for […]April 1, 2016
10 mins
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The ousted PM's Quadrant essays brought immediate howls from many pundits, especially on the left, who accuse him of white-anting his successor. It seems, if taken at their word, the Coalition's detractors are more mindful of party loyalty than party members themselvesApril 10, 2016
8 mins
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Apart from building the country’s wealth, the principal task of […]
April 1, 2016
19 mins
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Is Brexit, the issue on which the British public will […]
April 1, 2016
12 mins
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When the Berlin Wall came down we told by those who should have known better that the age of ideology was at an end. On the contrary, ideologies proliferated, driven by a quasi-religious compulsion to believe in the all-encompassing causeApril 14, 2016
8 mins
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While the political class obsesses over Tony Abbott, the promised plebiscite on gay marriage and other petty distractions, the budgetary challenge isn't going away. Do we manage it coherently or wait until external forces shock us with the force of a dramatic reckoning?April 17, 2016
13 mins
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That Labor might punish savers is lamentable but not surprising, as it long ago morphed into the party of public servants, welfare beneficiaries and feather-bedded union mates. That Liberals are casting an acquisitive eye on the wealth of those who worked, earned and saved is appallingApril 27, 2016
10 mins
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Some 50 years ago, US biologist Paul Ehrlich's warnings of a teeming planet sparked a panic that has yet to abate. There is indeed reason to be fearful, but not of too many humans. The very real and looming problems have everything to do with declining birth ratesMay 11, 2016
20 mins
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As Sir Humphrey would have grasped in a trice, ASIO is concerned with safeguarding its status and reputation. In this context, the latest volume of the agency's official history should be read with an eye for what isn't said amid the muted revelations that actually made it into printMay 22, 2016
31 mins
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The world's greatest minds built the H-bomb and the bombers that stood ready throughout the Cold War to deliver it. The same cannot be said of the Blimps and braid-encrusted wallahs of modern warfare who were responsible for guarding those weapons on the tarmacMay 29, 2016
10 mins
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Those who vilify George Pell -- a reflex action amongst those who loathe and detest the church -- and think that’s an end to the matter of child sexual abuse are deluded. Their behaviour demonstrates how culture and ideology limit the extent of the debate about the welfare of children that we still need to haveApril 29, 2016
14 mins
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Moral one-upmanship lifts the preacher and lowers the congregation, and while secularisation has reduced sin's potential to incite a pulpiteer's scolding that has not prevented the emergence of new rebukes. Think here of the many PC "isms" said to signify indelible wickednessMay 10, 2016
27 mins
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There is a vast difference between fighting for civil liberties fifty years ago and taking a stand on full inclusion and marriage equality now. Congregations face a paradox here, as embracing the modern liberal agenda is not the same as witnessing Christ to others.May 15, 2016
14 mins
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Acceptance of drug use will remain a threat to the community while the likes of George Soros pour multiple millions into the campaign, and so long as advocates such as Johann Hari and the fictions of his book, 'Chasing the Scream', remain unchallengedMay 14, 2016
33 mins
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The Bright Young Thing, the spurned lover, the amusing house guest, the intrepid traveller, the evangelising Catholic, the celebrated author, the country squire turned Mr Toad -- all aspects of the monstrous personality and graceful writer who has captivates legions of biographersApril 30, 2016
15 mins
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Catch and Kill: The Politics of Power by Joel Deane […]
April 1, 2016
7 mins
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Author David Kilcullen "Blood Year" is scathing of Barack Obama’s deer-in-the-headlights response to the rise of ISIS. The last thing Vladimir Putin had to fear on the eve of his bold intervention in the Syrian civil war, was the reaction of a supine US presidentMay 1, 2016
9 mins
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The Shock of Recognition: The Books and Music That Have […]
April 1, 2016
14 mins
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Woody Allen: A Retrospective by Tom Shone Abrams, 2015, 288 […]
April 1, 2016
13 mins
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My Year with Sammy by Libby Sommer Ginninderra Press, 2015, […]
April 1, 2016
8 mins
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Villa Valmarana ai Nani has been one of the major attractions at Vicenza in the Veneto region of northern Italy since 1757, its enduring appeal owing everything to the remarkable frescoes whose popularity has survived war, the vagaries of fashion and partisan critiqueMay 28, 2016
25 mins
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There is a tall mound of black earth on stage. […]
April 1, 2016
11 mins
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Daylight come and me wan’ go home Day, me say […]
April 1, 2016
9 mins
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Reviewing “live” productions broadcast from theatres in New York and […]
April 1, 2016
8 mins
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Police Superintendent George Hannan, the only passenger on this chartered […]
April 1, 2016
16 mins
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All Blacks in the Same Hotel They hang together […]
April 1, 2016
1 mins
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The Tour de France Passes Through Rochefort A ride through […]
April 1, 2016
2 mins
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Love at First Sight in Edinburgh September rain in […]
April 1, 2016
4 mins
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Scatomancy Divination by excrement, it goes way back, Egyptians […]
April 1, 2016
2 mins
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Gaol-Bird I tracked a bird’s broad arrow-print Around […]
April 1, 2016
3 mins
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Fragments of Garden Island, WA, as it was A […]
April 1, 2016
2 mins
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At Seaforth Station The leaning quince branches wattled the […]
April 1, 2016
1 mins
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The Pleasure It is my pleasure, the pleasure […]
April 1, 2016
1 mins
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Sniff I must be really old when those below […]
April 1, 2016
2 mins
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Choking Fruit of childhood and poverty: green and prickly, […]
April 1, 2016
3 mins
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The Bangkok Bombing “Today, the thoughts of all Australians […]
April 1, 2016
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