December 2016 Volume LX, Number 10, No. 532
In Defence of Pit Bulls … and Canberra
The America Hidden in Plain Sight
Tales of the Tape
The Break-Up of Australia: Part II
US Letter: The Left Faces Reality
Gender Dysphoria and Surgical Abuse
Contents
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The Pit Bull is Innocent SIR: In my years of […]December 1, 2016
11 mins
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Other Republicans might have won this election by the same or larger margins, but Trump triumphed by winning over a large slice of the electorate that had been neglected -- indeed, often disparaged -- by both parties. Like the dog that caught the car, we watch and wonder what he will do nextDecember 2, 2016
8 mins
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The Marxists of my youth wrestled with the problem of artistic genius, compelled to deny the very concept of genius because its outpourings were those of individuals rather than 'forces', 'classes' and, of course, 'historical inevitability'December 29, 2016
8 mins
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Up until the 1970s, Australian universities instilled an awareness of our early political adventurousness. Today, an intractable and prevailing mentality discerns racism everywhere -- a perspective that is both at odds with history and a mainspring of the Recognition movementDecember 13, 2016
31 mins
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The sense of near-bilious dismay at Trump's victory is everywhere as I write, a scant twenty-four hours after the votes were tallied. At the D.C. bus station this morning, for example, a young woman emblazoned with Hillary buttons burst spontaneously into tears. It was a beautiful thing to seeDecember 2, 2016
18 mins
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What astonishes me is the lack of evidence to support massive medical intervention aimed at "changing" a child's sex when such procedures are simply not necessary. The enthusiasm of ethics committees in hospitals, health regions and universities for such procedures is an ongoing mysteryDecember 15, 2016
46 mins
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An older population is a consequence of capitalism making Western societies richer beyond anything conceivable when our grandparents were young. Capitalism, albeit with hiccups and an occasional convulsion, will go on making us richer and better able to care for the elderlyDecember 16, 2016
18 mins
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Despite the global revolution in urbanisation now under way, many Western strategists and military specialists remain cautious about embracing urban warfare as a central mission. They have good reasons for such caution -- and just as many to overcome that reticenceDecember 24, 2016
30 mins
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Criticise the HRC all you want, but this Coalition government knew about the QUT case for a long time and did nothing. It made no moves to amend 18C. It did not indemnify those QUT students, which it had the power to do. If alleged conservatives can't get this right, what good are they?December 14, 2016
12 mins
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Legal ethics, like etiquette, is usually taught as a series […]
December 1, 2016
16 mins
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Illiberal and hypocritical -- those few words capture the contortions of British judges who have ruled that the voices and votes of Brexit supporters need parliamentary endorsement. Consider the contradiction: those who would bow to Brussels also insist their own lawmakers are paramountJanuary 27, 2017
9 mins
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Rather than indulging his inclination to echo the opinions and prejudices of the Left's progressive choir, the Pontiff would benefit from the example of John Paul II and Benedict XVI in honouring the timelessness of the best Catholic social and political thoughtDecember 26, 2016
26 mins
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The Dismissal by Paul Kelly & Troy Bramston Penguin, 2016, […]
December 1, 2016
11 mins
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Seething at Barry Spurr’s ousting from Sydney University, I declared that parents who sought a proper education for their children should spurn universities. Barry would have none of it. Despite it all, he never lost faith in his persecutors’ potential for redemptionJanuary 19, 2017
11 mins
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Our Fathers Cleared the Bush: Remembering Eyre Peninsula by Jill […]
December 1, 2016
4 mins
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I want to open by standing back to set the […]
December 1, 2016
25 mins
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Denzel Washington. He must have been a fan of mine […]
December 1, 2016
38 mins
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“I prefer stories about squalor.” “About what?” I said, leaning […]
December 1, 2016
11 mins
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Gloria played at the Griffin Theatre from August 26 to […]
December 1, 2016
10 mins
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For those of us who still miss the carefully plotted […]
December 1, 2016
11 mins
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To the bus commuters of the industrial port city of […]
December 1, 2016
14 mins
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The short academic day was over. Paddy and the rest […]
December 1, 2016
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It is the visual that reigns in our culture. Only when we concentrate do we find the silence within that reminds us of the preciousness of our heritage of language. Amidst the cacophony of voices it is good remember that in the beginning was the written word, not the websiteJanuary 2, 2017
8 mins
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Captain Armchair When I was Skipper Armchair and I […]
December 1, 2016
3 mins
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In the mist at Ballan She said that she […]
December 1, 2016
1 mins
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Recollections of Dread and Deliverance Dearest, when you haemorrhaged (I […]
December 1, 2016
1 mins
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Exorcism As I played cricket with a golf Ball […]
December 1, 2016
3 mins
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To Khaled al-Asaad Khaled al-Asaad, aged 81, a renowned Syrian […]
December 1, 2016
2 mins
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Without the Use of Your Hands (In Ireland, the […]
December 1, 2016
2 mins
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Garden Talk He’s forgotten to empty me, says the […]
December 1, 2016
2 mins
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The Horizontal Woman Peacock bright in spinnaker smock she […]
December 1, 2016
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Talkies Peter Chappel lost his Christian name by popular […]
December 1, 2016
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Da Vinci Was a Bastard [Do not] make figures too […]
December 1, 2016
2 mins
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The Young Archies, The Archibald Prize 2016 He is […]
December 1, 2016
3 mins
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Intimation A suburban park, And a gang of crows Has […]
December 1, 2016
1 mins
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Brain Scan for Mr Head The day Keith Douglas’s […]
December 1, 2016
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Ivanhoe Park Someone’s made a rose garden, the swings […]
December 1, 2016
2 mins
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In Praise of Carbohydrates It’s well worth pointing out […]
December 1, 2016
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