June 2017 Volume LXI, Number 6, No. 537
Fascism in the Academy
Tony Abbott on Leadership
Forgers, Impostors and the News Business
The Blessings of Brexit
A Looming Disaster in Energy Security
Debt Overload: The Path to Redemption
Contents
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Fascism in the Academy Sir: Philippa Martyr’s experience as a […]May 31, 2017
6 mins
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What we need is a political leader who recognises that three issues -- energy policy, debt accumulation and multiculturalist immigration -- present profound problems that threaten our way of life. There is only one serious contender who is up to the task: Tony AbbottJune 7, 2017
8 mins
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Many people, when they know a subject really well, find newspaper accounts of it misleading or inaccurate, even as to the most elementary facts. And yet the strange thing is that it does not discourage them from continuing to read newspapers and even believe themJune 21, 2017
8 mins
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Brexit made it possible and respectable for all Tory traditions to support leaving Europe. That liberated people to abandon the fixed positions and conventional wisdom of the previous forty years. Over over the next few months, following the replacement of Cameron by May, the Tories gradually reassembled themselves
May 31, 2017
9 mins
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Renewables will provide, optimistically, 10 to 20 per cent of global energy by 2035. There is no prospect of seriously reducing fossil fuel emissions without an accompanying fall in global standards of living directly implied by large reductions in per capita energy useJune 9, 2017
20 mins
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If we are ever to break the ruinous cycle of spending, deficits and more spending, it is incumbent on conservatives to put their focus on the goal of reducing taxes and regulations. After that, fortified by the strength of our conviction, we can watch free-market capitalism do the restJuly 2, 2017
15 mins
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Left-progressives despise the country they inherited and despise anyone like me who doesn’t despise it too. That’s their problem, I suppose, though it is worth observing that self-hatred can be the first step to self-destruction, with societies as well as individualsJune 26, 2017
10 mins
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Red nappies, green nappies -- that's how the progressive Left grooms its social justice warrior babies, a process that begins, as one kiddie-book author asserts, 'fresh out of the womb'. Join us now at storytime and learn that 'A' is for 'Activist', 'L' for LGBTQ and 'T' stands for for 'Trans'June 3, 2017
8 mins
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The fluid-gendered-progressive world order has no use for ancient or modern myths of marriage, family, religion or the idea of 'a man and a woman'. Consider the word 'heterosexual', which the academy has recast as 'heteronormative', as if we are sufferers of some category of paraphiliaJune 29, 2017
12 mins
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Jean-Claude Juncker, the President of the European Commission, a French-speaker […]
May 31, 2017
10 mins
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There was good reason in days gone by that the Horn of Africa's tip was known as 'Aromata Promontorium', the Spice Cape. These days the same headland is marked on maps as Cape Guardafui, which usefully translates as the warning 'take heed'September 3, 2017
19 mins
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It is only worth repeating because, now more than ever, […]
May 31, 2017
12 mins
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Only when groups such as Hizb ut-Tahrir tremble to make themselves known in public for fear of a confident citizenry showering them with virulent and open contempt will Australia finally have grasped that it need pay no more heed to opinion-page scolds and social engineersJune 4, 2017
29 mins
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It is common for the activists for 'equality' to externalise problems: it is always someone else, others, who are the problem, and a campaign to change attitudes, through force of law if necessary, is the loud and standard answer. Clearly, they have not read their KierkegaardJuly 20, 2017
18 mins
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The authorised version of what happened in Canberra on November 11, 1975, was crafted and tirelessly promoted by Labor sympathisers in academia and the press. It is the inspirational story of Gough Whitlam, a great man wronged, and his defiant eloquence. Trouble is, it's just not trueJuly 7, 2017
27 mins
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Révolution by Emmanuel Macron French and European Publications Inc, 2016, […]May 31, 2017
8 mins
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There were minor errors in Chester Wilmot's 'Tobruk' and they remain in the re-issued edition, but that is a small quibble. What matters most is that a magisterial book by a great and intrepid journalist is once again accorded the attention it so richly deservesJuly 16, 2017
6 mins
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Lucid, revealing, brief and to the point, Robert Murray's "Labor and Santamaria" is a book for lovers of Australian political history to savour and, as the author intends, to once again contemplate the man who, almost two decades after his death, remains the object of both adoration and bileJuly 31, 2017
6 mins
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That’s Debatable: 60 Years in Print by Tony Thomas Connor […]
May 31, 2017
6 mins
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Jane & D’Arcy: Jane Austen & D’Arcy Wentworth, Volume I: […]
May 31, 2017
9 mins
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Old people, or at least older people, people like me, […]
May 31, 2017
11 mins
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When the thirty-four-year-old Henry Kendall arrived in Gosford in late […]
May 31, 2017
35 mins
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Icons and ballads are not in the mainstream of European […]
May 31, 2017
11 mins
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In their account of England’s story, the Tudors held Henry […]
May 31, 2017
17 mins
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When the British film crew arrived in Vienna, they found […]
May 31, 2017
32 mins
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It has been over ten years since I first wrote […]
May 31, 2017
11 mins
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Alfred Hitchcock was in town to promote his latest thriller, […]
May 31, 2017
11 mins
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A cardboard packet on the kitchen table had an illustration […]
May 31, 2017
15 mins
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Mikel was born on Christmas Day. To the villagers of […]
May 31, 2017
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Raised in one of Australia’s safest Labor seats and having dutifully voted Labor in every election from 1984 to 1991, my abandonment of the Left proved to be a gradual, multi-step process. For this I must thank my then-fellow leftists who started the ball rolling, as is so frequently the case in these mattersJune 17, 2017
9 mins
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Button and Bolts Mother’s button jar is nine inches high […]
May 31, 2017
5 mins
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Because, like the weather Because, like the weather it […]
May 31, 2017
3 mins
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14/2 I almost managed it this year almost forgot […]
May 31, 2017
1 mins
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Ballet at the Sydney Opera House: Thinking about Slessor […]
May 31, 2017
1 mins
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The Written Word The spoken word can sometimes be forgotten, […]
May 31, 2017
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Banished Banished to his desert island For a thousand thousand […]
May 31, 2017
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Gold No knees-up, post staph. Will this grey thread see […]
May 31, 2017
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