March 2017 Volume LXI, Number 3, No. 534
Aborigines, Menzies, Seidler and more
Nationalist Illusions
Turnbull, Too Clever by Half
Progress. Ah, Progress!
The Global Economy’s New Geography
18C’s Betrayal of Menzies Liberalism
Contents
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Time to Say No SIR: The review of Keith Windschuttle’s […]February 28, 2017
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This month 128 years ago the ship Afghan arrived in Australian waters with 268 Chinese passengers and prompted a legal fracas, an episode recently cited by NSW Chief Justice Tom Bathurst as proof that Australia is "grounded in xenophobia." To put it politely, Bathurst doesn't have a clueApril 19, 2017
8 mins
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Abbott was ousted because he was low in the polls, an insufficient rationale to persuade those Liberals with grave doubts about his successor's ambition, ego and, indeed, his political competence. The gathering clouds of a conservative civil war should come as no surpriseMarch 1, 2017
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With the idea of 'progress', all that became necessary was that what was produced should be the forerunner of something else. Everyone could claim he was John the Baptist, without having to specify who or what the Christ wasMarch 24, 2017
8 mins
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More important than the physical geography of trade is the human geography of institutions. The US and UK share a language, a financial infrastructure, a business culture, a legal heritage, and a way of thinking. In quitting Europe, Brexit backers voted to rejoin the larger worldMarch 31, 2017
16 mins
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Australia by the 1990s had emerged as one of the most diverse, tolerant and cohesive multicultural nations in the world. Sir Robert Menzies would have objected to 18C not on the grounds of its laudable objective to combat racism but on its inevitable effect of curtailing free speechMarch 20, 2017
19 mins
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The Liberal Party is in a strange predicament: it is led by a man who does not share many of its basic values, who lacks charisma and leadership qualities, and is disliked by much of the party which did not elect him to the leadership. This seems a quite possibly fatal conditionMarch 3, 2017
12 mins
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A fault-line runs through the Liberal Party, crippling its ability to govern and paralysing the capacity to articulate what it believes in. If the Coalition wishes to save itself, as Australia’s best interests require, it must serve as midwife to its own rebirthMarch 5, 2017
9 mins
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The totalitarianism of PC rectitude reveals itself any time a member of an ascribed tribe defers to conscience and thereby labels themselves an 'identity traitor'. The antidote is a colour-blind alliance predicated on enlightened patriotism and Western civilisationMarch 22, 2017
13 mins
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To cite but one example, churches are encouraged to hang paintings from Aboriginal mythology which parishioners cannot decipher. Perhaps that innocence is for the better, as many might find the promotion of animist mythology in a place of Christian worship not merely odd but unsettlingApril 2, 2017
13 mins
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Sometimes a mundane event can carry an important symbolic moral […]
February 28, 2017
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For President Jacob Zuma and his ruling African National Congress […]
February 28, 2017
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There is a vast gulf in Arab societies between an elevated self-esteem based on an alleged superiority in religion and civilisation and, on the other hand, the constant denial of this superiority by the grim reality of curtailed liberties, intellectual atrophy and institutionalised corruptionMarch 29, 2017
23 mins
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In the 1950s ASIO found itself with four agents in the Australian-China Society in Brisbane, none of whom were aware of the others -- a far greater coup than its triumph in obtaining one surveillance subject's entry forms for the 100- and 220-yard races at the young communists’ sports carnivalApril 11, 2017
21 mins
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With its precision and focus on the true, the beautiful and the good, the classical culture of reasoning is at the core of our tradition and—as Tocqueville notes—a “useful” corrective to democracy’s tendency for haste and superficiality. That is something worth restoringApril 9, 2017
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Melbourne's former broadsheet, once a splendid newspaper, now delivers interminable, paint-by-number epistles about racism, refugees, multiculturalism, climate change, victmised Aborigines, male chauvinism and, of course. the loathsomeness of conservatives. Trees die for this. How sadMarch 9, 2017
11 mins
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A Reply to Brian Galligan This article was originally written […]
February 28, 2017
41 mins
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Way Beyond Satire by Rowan Dean Wilkinson Publishing, 2016, 160 […]
February 28, 2017
9 mins
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Patrick White and God by Michael Giffin Cambridge Scholars, 2017, […]
February 28, 2017
15 mins
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Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet by Lyndal Roper The Bodley […]
February 28, 2017
17 mins
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Win, Lose or Draw by Peter Corris Allen & Unwin, […]
February 28, 2017
6 mins
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The most recent Best Australian Poems is made up largely of poems that people 'who do not generally read poetry' will most likely never read or understand. A grand and deserving slate of our most worthy poets has been forgotten, overlooked, unfairly dismissedMarch 18, 2017
13 mins
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Shellships by Ashlley Morgan-Shae AMS Publishing, 2014, 99 pages, $10 […]
February 28, 2017
6 mins
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Murder at Myall Creek: The Trial That Defined a Nation […]
February 28, 2017
4 mins
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It would take only small changes to update Goebbels' vision for an upright, uptight BDS audience. The star on the money-lender's chest would not be the familiar yellow one, but a blue Star of David ripped from a flag the thugs have yet to burn. Replace 'Jew' with 'Israeli' and await thunderous applauseMarch 25, 2017
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Dr Isabel Dalhousie is a philosopher, a graduate of Cambridge […]
February 28, 2017
14 mins
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“Marlon Brando is the best actor of my generation—when he […]
February 28, 2017
9 mins
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In winter in Hamburg—the busiest port in Europe—when gangways are […]
February 28, 2017
17 mins
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Stuart Devlin’s Sculpture Modern coins the sizes of shine […]
February 28, 2017
1 mins
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Lonesome (I stole line 10 from John Betjeman) There’s a […]
February 28, 2017
5 mins
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Emergency Ward In this mad-house Suddenly erupting about me […]
February 28, 2017
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Murmuration: Starlings on the St John River Flashmob. Wingbeats. […]
February 28, 2017
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Touched on the Raw (George’s Bay, St Helens) “That’s […]
February 28, 2017
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Americans are so polite All that “Mr President”, the […]
February 28, 2017
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Dearly Departed So much of it, my childhood, departed […]
February 28, 2017
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Tonight’s Scotch Consider the lilies of the field, how they […]
February 28, 2017
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Deer Day or night they reappear from nowhere, the […]
February 28, 2017
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Siren for Wendy Richardson Wendy remembers the miners of […]
February 28, 2017
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