September 2016 Volume LX No 9, No. 529
Remains of the Dazed
Scuttling Our Navy and Other Matters
I’m Offended, Therefore I’m Right
How Sir Robert Menzies Foresaw Brexit
Why I Voted to Leave the European Union
The Twenty-First-Century Conservative
Contents
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The immediate reaction of those who fought and feared Brexit was entirely predictable: something much worse than the Seven Plagues of Egypt was about to descend. Wrong, as usual, all they succeeded in demonstrating was the habitual arrogance of the elitesSeptember 3, 2016
9 mins
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SIR: Michael Evans (“Look Seaward, Australia”, June 2016) represents a […]September 1, 2016
10 mins
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The willingness to take loud and public offence manifests that peculiar modern imperative to be aggrieved and disport oneself in the mantle of no-risk victimhood. More than that, it affirms that one cares deeply about something in the absence of any other transcendent purpose in lifeSeptember 15, 2016
8 mins
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With the outcome of the June 23 Brexit referendum eliciting […]
September 1, 2016
12 mins
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Since the referendum I have received numerous telephone calls and […]
September 1, 2016
18 mins
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Malcolm Turnbull’s election campaign was the worst ever conducted by a sitting prime minister since Billy McMahon in 1972. His problem was clear: he has no deep belief in anything that differs from the views and positions of his opponents, meaning no abiding political visionSeptember 27, 2016
34 mins
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One Nation’s policies, whatever one thinks of them, constitute a clear set of alternatives to the status quo, while Team Xenophon has emerged as an option for many whose choice might otherwise be expressed as 'none of the above'. Something very new appears to have begunSeptember 20, 2016
14 mins
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Changing leaders, as the Liberal Party has discovered, is an uncontrolled explosion. It changes the fortunes of the party in unbridled and unexpected ways.The collateral cost is high. It does not, however, fix the party’s underlying problems -- indeed, in the short term at least, it exacerbates themSeptember 16, 2016
15 mins
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The president once noted that slavery's legacy was a part of America’s DNA. The genius of his grievance is that it’s inextinguishable, as in no possibility of reconciliation and definitive settlement. 'White privilege' is forever—or, at any rate, as long as a social-justice warrior finds it usefulSeptember 25, 2016
13 mins
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Hillary Clinton’s health had long been an issue, but chiefly amongst those who have long maintained she is unfit in more than a physical sense to take up residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Her latest episode has makes it a mainstream fixationSeptember 13, 2016
11 mins
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Just who asked top judges to inflate the role and authority of rights-related international law? Parliamentarians and those in favour of legislative last-word decision-making need to make clear their unease with this ever-broadening presumption to interpret, expand and imposeSeptember 29, 2016
22 mins
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Under the misdirection of Keynesian theory, any old public expenditure is seen as creating growth, the belief being that a stronger economy is the inevitable result. Nothing could be further from the truth, as we will learn to our regret in years to comeOctober 16, 2016
25 mins
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The notion that the arrival of the First Fleet constituted "an invasion", long popular in academic and activist circles, has now been dignified by the glib endorsement of our current Prime Minister. Evidently it is too much to hope that Mr Turnbull acquaint himself with the factsSeptember 21, 2016
16 mins
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Author John Bloom's account of the Iridium satellite network is more than a ripping read, it is both a commentary on the way we do technology today and a reminder of Friedrich Hayek's observation that presumed experts and planners are the last people you want picking winnersOctober 1, 2016
16 mins
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Gate of Lilacs: A Verse Commentary on Proust by Clive […]
September 1, 2016
5 mins
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Gate of Lilacs: A Verse Commentary on Proust by Clive […]
September 1, 2016
5 mins
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Three new books make a strong case for an independent Britain, probably in close association with Canada, Australia, New Zealand and some other culturally similar and developed Anglosphere countries. A CANZUK union has much to recommend itOctober 23, 2016
12 mins
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Monuments are human landmarks which men have created as symbols […]
September 1, 2016
26 mins
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There was political correctness when I was young. We stood in the cinema when the King’s image appeared, for example, and I have watched the shape and character of PC change over time. I didn’t much like it when I was young, and like it no more todayOctober 29, 2016
33 mins
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Saturday, July 30. Much publicity and crowds of theatregoers and […]
September 1, 2016
13 mins
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The shearers’ song “Click Go the Shears” and the 1890 […]
September 1, 2016
9 mins
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The credibility problem with most of the so-called Golden Age of detective fiction is how the sleuth happens to be sailing down the Nile or travelling on the Orient Express when the murder takes place. In The Thin Man the relationships seem perfectly naturalOctober 30, 2016
13 mins
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I knew I should never make a good businessman when […]
September 1, 2016
11 mins
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Over the next month, Huddie “Leadbelly” Ledbetter’s health deteriorated so […]
September 1, 2016
4 mins
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The capacity to see the bigger picture is a prerequisite amongst those seeking elective office. The paradox lies in the fact that to be elected also requires that you persuade the majority of average people vote for you -- people who may not be capable of seeing the big picture at allOctober 2, 2016
11 mins
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Australian cities do not lack potential congregants. But although the churches have tried just about everything, from hip-hop to meditation, to bring people in, something has changed within the general psyche. Sunday is now much like any other day of the weekOctober 8, 2016
8 mins
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The Solstice Vote In June, the Northern hemisphere lies […]
September 1, 2016
1 mins
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Constitutional (George’s Bay, St Helens, Tasmania) A thrilling elegance […]
September 1, 2016
1 mins
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Two Gays Gay is for me the name Of two […]
September 1, 2016
1 mins
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An Ordinary Melbourne Evening, Earlier That Year A Carlton […]
September 1, 2016
4 mins
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A Good Pier My face is in the sun and […]
September 1, 2016
2 mins
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From “Nine Homages to Ralph Vaughan Williams” 2. “A […]
September 1, 2016
4 mins
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The Festooned Pine At a Shinto shrine, white paper […]
September 1, 2016
2 mins
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The Days of Real Door-to-Door are Done The days […]
September 1, 2016
1 mins
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To the Legislators I, the people, have waited patiently […]
September 1, 2016
1 mins
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The Room under the Eaves Ascend the winding second stair […]
September 1, 2016
3 mins
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Maria (after a painting by Russell Drysdale, 1950) Barmaid […]
September 1, 2016
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Paradise Gardens Silence roars no one hastens, or runs were […]
September 1, 2016
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Uniform Solution Trees are green through window bars Dimitri […]
September 1, 2016
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Near the Edge Above the road is a rusted sheet […]
September 1, 2016
2 mins
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from Another Holy Week Holy Monday When first you […]
September 1, 2016
2 mins
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Veal Calf I have no need to see the brazen […]
September 1, 2016
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