May 2017 Volume LXI, Number 5, No. 536
Star Chambers, Red Star
A Disaster of the Active Kind
‘Kim Filbi’ and the Names on the Wall
Equality, Resentment, Violence
Mark Steyn, Cole Porter and Free Speech
Childhood Gender Dysphoria and the Law
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Academic Collegiality Sir: I was fascinated to read Gregory Melleuish’s […]April 30, 2017
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Did you know that our "genocidal history" is even worse than that of Nazi Germany? Come as a surprise, does it? If that it happens to be the case there is a safe assumption to be made: you haven't been studying at one of our Australian university where mendacity meets mediocrityMay 1, 2017
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Albania’s democracy is a little, well, unorthodox, but its results are undoubted. There is a fiesta of political debate and argument in the streets and newspapers. If any doubts persist, a visit to one of the museums of the nation's communism past dispels them very quicklyMay 9, 2017
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I have heard it said that snobbery is only a minor fault, but the truth is that it breeds a resentment that causes people to seek revenge even at great personal cost to themselves. Resentment soon turns to paranoia, with every act, every opinion or taste other than one’s own taken as a slightMay 21, 2017
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The Danish cartoon controversy prompted a spectacular failure of will and principle in the West, the commentator tells Quadrant. 'First they come for the cartoonists, ultimately they move on to everybody else. The provocations ... get lamer and lamer. We are losing our world.'May 11, 2017
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Judges seem untroubled by the contradiction inherent in a diagnosis that has become rather fashionable of late, 'gender dysphoria'. On the one hand the condition is described as a psychiatric illness, yet the purported remedies of hormones and surgery are entirely physicalMay 10, 2017
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Socially conservative means achieve economically dry ends, and vice versa. By adhering to the principles of small-government conservatism, a shared commitment to common social and economic policy means and ends can forge a renewed unity of purpose in the Centre-RightMay 25, 2017
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The English Complex in America: Would the Venerable Bede please […]
April 30, 2017
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Nationalism belongs to the times when humans lived in an associative way and in a familiar and cherished environment, and it has brought mankind to where we are today, god and bad. The future our descendants will have to live in -or survive in- will demand much more from us ... and from themMay 30, 2017
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As Donald Trump jets about the Middle East distributing olive branches it is timely to recall the Oslo Accords and the folly of cutting deals with remorseless killers. Enabling the PLO to build a terrorist kleptocracy in the West Bank has achieved nothing, other than stressing the need for a new approachMay 23, 2017
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The moles who operated in ASIO are living in quiet retirement, but the agency's official historians aren't allowed to tell us their names. As long as ASIO insists on protecting its 'reputation' from the truth it will anger and disconcert those whose trust it most needsJune 11, 2017
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On the evening of April 8, 1971, some 24 Labor opposition parliamentarians enjoyed a politically seasoned meal in the Soviet embassy. Some 21 months later, when those guests were the government, Attorney-General Lionel Murphy told ASIO to drop its interception of the Soviet embassy’s phonesMay 27, 2017
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It suits the purposes of republicans and others to promote the Kelly clan as freedom fighters. What tosh! They had much more in common with modern Melbourne's ethnic gangsters, who loot, terrorise and fence their stolen goods through a network of more experienced criminalsJune 18, 2017
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I was in the staff club with the late Geoffrey […]
April 30, 2017
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In another of his trademark touches, the PM has prompted a revolt by Catholic schools and those who should be his party's supporters. If Kazakhstan and Brazil can dramatically improve educational performance by rejecting the approach he has specifically endorsed, what can he be thinking?June 20, 2017
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Medical scientists worldwide are continuing to do amazing things, and […]
April 30, 2017
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In the 1950s Sir John Betjeman wrote some verses called […]
April 30, 2017
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The Culture of Freedom by Kevin Donnelly Institute of Public […]
April 30, 2017
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Auto-Industrialism: DIY Capitalism and the Rise of the Auto-Industrial Society […]
April 30, 2017
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Rescued from Time by Barbara Fisher Ginninderra Press, 2016, 108 […]
April 30, 2017
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Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism by Camille Paglia […]
April 30, 2017
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Boodgery: First Contact in the Mid-Murray, 1820 to 1860 by […]
April 30, 2017
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In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, translated by […]
April 30, 2017
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The proposition that the preposition on is merely a locator […]
April 30, 2017
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“Can’t bat, can’t bowl, can’t throw.” “Doesn’t blink, but.” “Put […]
April 30, 2017
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One of the most reliable forms of film preservation is […]
April 30, 2017
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“Mother, I want a dog,” says Julián. “We already have […]
April 30, 2017
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"If another person says, 'How’s your day been?' she’ll scream. On the way to her treehouse she notices Matthew as he steps out of the alfresco shower, partially covered by a towel like one of those male strippers in Magic Mike. She makes a mental note to keep her eyes open in the yoga class when he makes 'adjustments' to their poses"August 10, 2024
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It was a source of amused frustration for the late cartoonist Bill Leak that no matter what he did to satirise Triggs in The Australian, the AHRC president would inevitably respond by doing something even more absurd that made Bill’s art seem timid and understated by comparisonMay 18, 2017
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“Save the Last Dance for Me” Ballybunion. Summer nights. We […]
April 30, 2017
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Nine Haiku graveside vacancies in the air for rain for […]
April 30, 2017
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What’s in a Name? (Courting poem for G) Disturbed, […]
April 30, 2017
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Possomnia Short, rattling, guttural, territorial vibrato, incongruous with that furry […]
April 30, 2017
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EPITAPH for Tim O’Brien (1995–2016) Seabirds at sundown skim […]
April 30, 2017
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Fest I cannot miss the dead Possum by the hedgerow. […]
April 30, 2017
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Confession of a Volunteer Children of the Wind scud to […]
April 30, 2017
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Badajoz Tuesday Market On flat land between a power […]
April 30, 2017
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North Take me somewhere north of Watford where the hearts […]
April 30, 2017
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Humpbacks Heading Seaward into Deeper Water A squall drives in […]
April 30, 2017
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Dear Reader Yesterday I picked up the book I’d given […]
April 30, 2017
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