November 2017 Volume LXI, Number 11, No. 541
The Braying Mob
Tony Abbott’s Cast of Mind
Cannibalism, Denim and Triviality
Nuptial Compliance
Conservatism, Populism, Conviction
Spain at the Brink
Contents
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Sir: It’s Sunday morning at St Mary’s and the Archdeacon […]October 30, 2017
7 mins
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Legal and political philosopher Damien Freeman's new book, 'Abbott’s Right: The Conservative Tradition from Menzies to Abbott' is a refreshingly clear and enduringly memorable account of what it takes to be a genuinely conservative political figure in this countryNovember 4, 2017
8 mins
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The best-informed are not necessarily the wisest. Very often, indeed, they have proved the most foolish. There is a certain kind of stupidity associated with erudition that gives itself airs, which takes itself seriously and is condescending to mere common senseDecember 2, 2017
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To the Offender. It has been reported to the Commissioner that you recently failed to respond to a Matrimonial Invitation validly issued by two persons under the Legalisation of Same-Sex Unions (Amended Marriages Act) and in so doing have committed an Offensive and Hurtful Discriminatory Action'November 9, 2017
6 mins
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If a so-called populist party is drawing votes from the mainstream, then the mainstream party that deals seriously with its upstart rival's issue will eventually win voters even if it has to argue with them. It’s a lesson John Howard never forgot -- a lesson lately ignored and forgottenNovember 23, 2017
32 mins
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In 1932, four years before the outbreak of the Spanish […]
October 30, 2017
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There is not a Bible, Jewish or Christian, containing such incendiary commentary as populates page after page of 'The Noble Qur’an', which for four years has preached to the faithful in Canberra Airport's prayer room. The ideology it promotes is violent jihad. It is a book to start a warNovember 2, 2017
21 mins
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The risk today in Australia is that rising community unease about terrorist attacks will turn into anger. That risk heightens when public spokespeople dissimulate. Honesty is important -- not the platitudes of niceness about Islam being a peaceful religionNovember 14, 2017
12 mins
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Crony capitalists favour cheap labour, left-wing politicians see future voters, and moist-eyed globalists imagine a happy-clappy melting pot. Carpet-baggers and utopians will never grasp the truth, which is this: mature economies don't need imported labour for run-of-the-mill tasks.November 24, 2017
18 mins
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The Turnbull government has ordered a comprehensive review of the […]
October 30, 2017
29 mins
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Does the Family Court of Australia have a role in […]
October 30, 2017
46 mins
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Our approach to suicide, as urged by "experts" and what passes for the common wisdom, sees it as an illness or the result of an illness and urges “treatment”. Thus do we turn to health professionals when what most need are friends, family, elders, warmth and common sense.November 29, 2017
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Our once boundless goodwill towards Aboriginal fellow Australians is becoming exhausted. Despite the countless billions spent in their behalf, each failed program spawns yet another, with recent developments the last straw. It’s time to say, 'Enough! It’s over'November 11, 2017
49 mins
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Chester Wilmot was rejected by the AIF and could have sat out the war in a homefront newsroom. Fortunately, the ABC made him its chief Middle East reporter, which turned out to be an inspired choice. All these years later, the work of a courageous and intrepid journalist still sings on the pageDecember 9, 2017
12 mins
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Her campaign was an unholy mess, fraught with tangled lines of authority, petty jealousies, distorted priorities, and no sense of greater purpose. Worse, no one was in charge who could figure out how to make the campaign bigger than a flawed candidate's sense of entitlement and inevitabilityNovember 18, 2017
12 mins
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After by Nikki Gemmell Fourth Estate, 2017, 304 pages, $29.99 […]
October 30, 2017
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Elisabeth Wentworth 100 Australian Poems You Need to Know […]
October 30, 2017
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The Show: Another Side of Santamaria’s Movement by Mark Aarons […]
October 30, 2017
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The ABC's Sami Shah, author of 'The Islamic Republic of Australia' is a funny bloke -- quick with the rib-ticklers, but just plain peculiar about the creed he renounced. Apostate though he is, there lingers an ingrained prejudice against Jews, Christians, conservatives and demonstrable factDecember 10, 2017
10 mins
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When Louis Auchincloss died on January 26, 2010, the event […]
October 30, 2017
10 mins
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She was very particular about that L, which stood for […]
October 30, 2017
13 mins
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In Australia, stupidity rises, totalitarianism descends. Between them, the judges […]
October 30, 2017
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There is a plot device that often turns up in […]
October 30, 2017
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13/9/16 My fiddling towards abandon I have agreed to give […]
October 30, 2017
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From Quadrant's November edition and appropriate to the date, Hugh Canham's short storyDecember 26, 2017
18 mins
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When certain types insist something will go disastrously wrong, it invariably turns out just fine, so it is important when preparing for imminent doom to first acquaint yourself with its latest prophet's record of divination. Thai restaurants are far more reliable guides to the futureNovember 27, 2017
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Frederick Arnall Son of a fugitive alderman from Cornwall […]
October 30, 2017
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Toothsome Chaucer wrote of the gap-toothed wife of Bath, […]
October 30, 2017
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Death of the Library A library washed ashore on the […]
October 30, 2017
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pity the never been poor bathed in brightness and […]
October 30, 2017
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Dancing with the Stargazers, Cronulla The name Cronulla is derived […]
October 30, 2017
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AN ELEGY FOR JUNKET Oh vestal virgin of desserts. […]
October 30, 2017
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Light and Shadow When nights are full of moon […]
October 30, 2017
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The Succour Trees In Gethsemane olives were the only […]
October 30, 2017
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Testament Three signatures accept it, this document you’ve long […]
October 30, 2017
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Style Notes: 1 Bowties are v. big in the […]
October 30, 2017
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Inventory (For Chay) My days spool out behind me, […]
October 30, 2017
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Loud as You Like Council inspector said it: Talk […]
October 30, 2017
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