October 2016 Volume LX No 10, No. 530
Boyd’s ‘Brides’ and other matters
The Post-Brexit Ball-Game
Islam’s Martyrs to Self-Pity
The Six Pillars of Australia
How Islam Saved the West
Tony Abbott: Keeping Reform Alive
Contents
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Apolitical Brides SIR: I am grateful to Christopher Heathcote for […]October 1, 2016
3 mins
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Brexit expressed something fundamental: Britain was moving away from the liberal-Left social vision that was the basis for Cameron’s strategy after 1997. His resignation was a quiet non-event, but it marked a major change in his nation's political directionOctober 7, 2016
9 mins
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The young would-be terrorist seeks to soothe, repair and avenge his personal grievances by identifying with a larger historical grievance, that of all Muslims. Thus petty personal grievance takes on a reflected glory and self-pity, the near-universal characteristic of adolescence, is ennobledOctober 19, 2016
8 mins
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If we do not tell our young people about our heritage and how we have achieved it, they will not appreciate it. Worse, they may succumb to other theories, fashionable beliefs and new values which will in no way advance their welfare or that of the nationOctober 27, 2016
22 mins
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Europe's ascent largely revolved around control of the Mediterranean basin where Rome had built its domain. By dividing that sea into two antagonistic spheres, Islam broke its unifying power and gave Western competitiveness its chanceOctober 28, 2016
14 mins
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The fair-mindedness of the Australian people will always be a better defence against hate speech than a law administered by ideological partisans—yet our parliament prefers to tolerate over-the-top prosecutions than to upset thin-skinned activistsOctober 21, 2016
12 mins
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Few people nowadays will admit that they dislike democracy. But […]
October 1, 2016
10 mins
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Proponents of same-sex marriage say it’s senseless to vote on the issue because the result is already decided, with polls suggesting up to 64% of the voting-age population support what is commonly presented as 'equality'. If so, why vote on anything ever again?October 24, 2016
10 mins
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It is inevitable that a reviewer would be attracted to […]
October 1, 2016
31 mins
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To combat a threat it is essential to recognise it and this US President simply cannot acknowledge that Islamist terror is a genuine peril, with one source citing him as likening it to the possibility of being killed in a bathroom fall. Is it any wonder the West is losing?October 12, 2016
12 mins
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Espionage story, family story, incredible story -- that's the essence of Victor and Frances Metianen's journey from the cricket-club social scene of suburban Sydney in the 1930s to the dark world of what they believed in their fervent innocence to be Stalin's workers' paradiseJanuary 14, 2017
15 mins
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The great paedophile witch hunt against Conservative politicians and establishment […]
October 1, 2016
10 mins
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Speculations about God (or gods), the visible universe and the […]
October 1, 2016
22 mins
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One doesn’t need to believe in order to understand the principles of early Protestant political ideas on liberty, the role of the civil magistrate and civil society. Yet, without the Christian faith as a foundation, liberalism will not help us live well togetherApril 14, 2017
17 mins
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The perpetrators of Islamist attacks in London, Nice, Orlando and Sydney underline the problem that no matter how small the percentage of radical Muslims, we can hardly tell who they are among the broader population of their co-religionistsOctober 25, 2016
22 mins
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In spring 1919, farmers across Belgium and northern France ploughed […]
October 1, 2016
18 mins
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The spoils of war are the understanding of who is the perpetrator and who is the victim. Thus, victory for the terrorist is role reversal. The terrorist becomes the victim and the victim deserves everything that is coming to him. The terrorist is not bad, he or she is 'radicalised' and, therefore, the real victimOctober 5, 2016
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Only in Australia: The History, Politics, and Economics of Australian […]
October 1, 2016
11 mins
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Belvedere Woman by Ian Callinan Arcadia, 2016, 212 pages, $29.95 […]
October 1, 2016
13 mins
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The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer […]
October 1, 2016
7 mins
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Jane Sutton White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World by […]
October 1, 2016
6 mins
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Plevna: A Biography in Verse: Sir Charles “Plevna” Ryan (1853–1926) […]
October 1, 2016
4 mins
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After the Second World War, the literary and intellectual scene […]
October 1, 2016
37 mins
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When I read that Kenneth Branagh was going to set […]
October 1, 2016
8 mins
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Kurosawa took up themes of betrayal, cowardice, dishonesty and personal responsibility -- unmentionable subjects in Japan for decades after the war. As the director put it, his script portrays "human beings—the kind who cannot survive without lies"November 19, 2016
21 mins
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A Popular Song, 1930s for K.E. White Back then, […]
October 1, 2016
3 mins
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Daddy, please don’t go Daddy, please don’t go I’m […]
October 1, 2016
1 mins
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Sightings: Around, About, Among i. Currawongs—so much this country —that […]
October 1, 2016
5 mins
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Thoughts on the Recent Murders of Police Officers in Dallas […]
October 1, 2016
2 mins
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The Moon via telescope 1. Annular eclipse of the […]
October 1, 2016
3 mins
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Looking for Uncle Max, Northern Queensland, 2012 To the […]
October 1, 2016
1 mins
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A Fish Nobody Knew Fish tail, black and oily […]
October 1, 2016
2 mins
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Sydney to Melbourne If you didn’t have a “sleeper” […]
November 1, 2016
2 mins
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Chat with the Whitest Cat Béyaz, you Mùscovite, bliss […]
October 1, 2016
3 mins
