March 2016 Volume LX No 3, No. 525
The Faith of a Polymath and other matters
The Year of Pitchforks and Brands
Relatively Wrong
Ten Questions for Australia’s Future
Letter from London
The Economic Case for the Abbott Government
Contents
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Sir: Just as Paul Monk read Roberto Mangabeira Unger’s The […]March 1, 2016
11 mins
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Americans have seen living standards stagnate, habits of neighbourhood co-operation undermined, job opportunities reduced and their sense of moral equality with the new American educated class decline. The establishment grasps as much, but only Donald Trump stands poised to exploit itMarch 1, 2016
8 mins
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The question might be: Does rap makes people stupid and aggressive, or is it only stupid and aggressive people who listen to rap music? If your agenda requires a particular answer, count on the dark art of statistical manipulation to make it soMarch 20, 2016
8 mins
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As a nation we face complex challenges and opportunities -- prospects to be framed against healthy scepticism and a liking for many features of lives we lead now. But we should never forget, as Giuseppe Lampedusa put it, "everything needs to change, so everything can stay the same”April 15, 2016
33 mins
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Accuse a conservative of sexually abusing children and authorities will bring the full and intrusive power of the state to bear on the alleged perpetrator, no matter how improbable the charge. A leftist bishop, though, well that's a different matter altogetherMarch 28, 2016
12 mins
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If governments and leaders are required always to be ahead in the polls, tough-but-necessary decisions will rarely be taken. As the head of the European Commission recently observed, “We all know what to do -- we just don’t know how to get re-elected after we’ve done it.”February 29, 2016
19 mins
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Slowly, as if awakening from a drug-induced phantasmagoria, some of those erstwhile Abbott-backers are asking themselves what they have done. Their deepest fear is that by changing leaders they have not just changed the country but the party
March 1, 2016
10 mins
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Inflict mass migration's radical changes on a society and we are no longer faithful stewards of the prosperous, free societies for which our ancestors struggled -- a legacy betrayed for the pottage of self-satisfaction in deeming ourselves caring, compassion and tolerant to a faultMarch 25, 2016
12 mins
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Reflecting on the notions of destiny and providence, and as […]
March 1, 2016
6 mins
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Although the “Iraqi money affair” is regarded as a post-Dismissal sideshow it may well be part of a much larger endeavour: the flow of Middle Eastern money to unions and pro-Arab, anti-Israel activists in Australia. The cast of shady characters makes such speculation impossible to avoidMarch 11, 2016
43 mins
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The historian John Hirst died in Melbourne on February 3 […]
March 1, 2016
8 mins
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Politeness might dictate that some topics are best not mentioned for fear of giving offence, but that fails to explain why so many of the left's loudest mouthpieces belong to what the British journalist Nick Cohen calls the 'Kill us, we deserve it' school of cultural self-hatredMarch 29, 2016
15 mins
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How appropriate would it be to voice expressions of doubt while giving Last Rites to someone who had been dealt with cruelly by man or fate? It is precisely in those circumstances that faith, not doubt, comforts those who understand that bad things happen, and to good peopleMarch 31, 2016
12 mins
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The world lost a great thinker last night with the passing of Sir Roger Scruton. Quadrant Online will have more on his achievements and legacy, but a reprise of Steve Kates's 2016 review of 'Fools, Frauds and Firebrands' is an apt initial reminder of the man and mind we could so ill afford to loseJanuary 13, 2020
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Preserving and defending what the West has built requires a sense of purpose and shared public morality. Sadly, of the literary fictions inspired by and following the 9/11 attacks, none goes beyond an agnostic predilection to equivocateMarch 24, 2016
19 mins
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Long before Harry Potter there was William Brown, the enduring creation of Richmal Crompton, who knew what boys are like and, more than that, what boys like to read. Now well into his nineties, her endearingly mischievous hero is still going strongApril 3, 2016
13 mins
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As a modernist who stood firmly against art-by-political-numbers, Arthur Boyd has been immune to conscription by critics who wish to depict him as an advocate for their fashionable sympathies and agendas. Alas, that is no longer the caseApril 9, 2016
45 mins
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As readers of the Fleet Street press know and appreciate, there is nothing quite like an amusing and informative obituary to enhance the morning pleasure of toast and tea. Alas, in Australia the art of capturing the lives of the freshly departed is itself very much on the slabMarch 13, 2016
16 mins
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I discovered my camera was gone halfway across the no-man’s-land […]
March 1, 2016
13 mins
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Almost fifty years since its first publication in 1967, A […]
March 1, 2016
13 mins
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The dramas of human sleep are well portrayed in Shakespeare’s […]
March 1, 2016
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The Interment of the Ashes They waited a year Let […]
March 1, 2016
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Memento Mori at Seventy-Eight So clearly head of table […]
March 1, 2016
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Robert Pershing Wadlow (1918–1940) He looked like a stilt-walker, […]
March 1, 2016
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Window In these evenings the towering lights of the […]
March 1, 2016
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Bali & Other Haiku arthritis grateful to write just […]
March 1, 2016
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Jean la Pucelle I was just thirteen, When the voices […]
March 1, 2016
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Boarding in Town for School The trick was to be […]
March 1, 2016
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Saving Jesus “BrickHouse Security saves Jesus for 8th year in […]
March 1, 2016
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The Last Day Form 5 Photograph Fort Street Boys’ High […]
March 1, 2016
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For your daughter and her granddaughter (Lyn and Ava) […]
March 1, 2016
3 mins
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A Taoist on Montserrat The Massif of Montserrat—Eocene erosions […]
March 1, 2016
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Phasmida the Stick Insect Woman She selects my leafy […]
March 1, 2016
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