October 2017 Volume LXI, Number 10, No. 540
A Proper Defence Academy
The Vandals Take the Handles
Mistaken Identities
Loupiness
Strauss, Bruckner and the Dying of the Light
Chinese Political Rivalry and Xi’s Great Dilemma
Contents
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SIR: Your article “Gender Diversity in Khaki” (September 2017) confirms the […]September 29, 2017
14 mins
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With Lord Mayor Clover Moore's "Aboriginal advisory panel" poised to dictate what should be inscribed beneath Captain Cook's statue in Hyde Park, there are no prizes for guessing the politically correct insult to history certain soon to be cast in bronze. History, as re-written by a reggae singerOctober 3, 2017
8 mins
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It is held to be morally wrong to assert that someone who is a man biologically but a woman by choice and surgery is not genuinely female. Likewise with national identity, but here the problems of transforming, say, Germans into 'Europeans' gets somewhat stickierOctober 24, 2017
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It was long the French ambition to be rid of dangerous and predatory wolves, but more recently the creatures have enjoyed a better press. Somehow it seeped into public consciousness that, contrary to all evidence and experience, wolves are darling creatures to be welcomed and indulgedOctober 15, 2017
8 mins
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I am currently wrapping up a two-week visit to the […]
September 29, 2017
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China’s regional expansion is coming at a growing security cost […]
September 29, 2017
27 mins
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Chun Chung-nam had tried to kill himself by biting off […]
September 29, 2017
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At a time when diminishing numbers of students elect to study serious history and those who do are often taught by ideologues, no genuine recognition of the Russian Revolution's colossal tragedy is allowed to enter the minds of the Western democracies's populationsOctober 12, 2017
25 mins
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Keith Windschuttle: The Debate So Far It should be now […]
September 29, 2017
29 mins
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Recently we were told the general beastliness of intolerant heterosexuals would prompt 3000 additional suicides -- a ridiculous figure presented with no known relationship to truth or reasonable expectation. Yet such is standard operating procedure on the Left, with the ABC as always to the foreOctober 7, 2017
12 mins
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Created in academia’s Left bubble, a Deakin University study of Muslims in the West makes 18 references to “Islamophobia”. Phobias are unreal fears; fear of Muslim terror is perfectly rational, given thirty Islamic attacks killed 157 people in the last week of June aloneOctober 26, 2017
14 mins
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On Liberty and Its Enemies by Kenneth Minogue, edited by […]
September 29, 2017
18 mins
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It is commonly believed that Marxism effectively died with the […]
September 29, 2017
24 mins
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Large, well-funded public institutions persuade ordinary people they are victims of social injustice, grooming their prospective clients. These people then become vexatious complainants, join the grievance queues and apply to those same bodies for financial compensation, a closed systemNovember 6, 2017
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With any and every cut in spending guaranteed to perish in the red chamber, the deficit keeps growing and the trajectory of our national indebtedness grows evermore frightening. It wouldn't be an easy reform, but the veto over money bills could be -- indeed, should be -- brought to an endNovember 16, 2017
21 mins
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At a time when public opinion seems sympathetic to indigenous aspirations, the energy of advocates would be better used addressing fundamental issues: Are Aborigines to have the same opportunities? Are they to be subject to the same laws? Is Australia to have one society or two?October 29, 2017
19 mins
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Hidden in Plain View: The Aboriginal People of Coastal Sydney […]
September 29, 2017
7 mins
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On Murray’s Run by Joe Dolce Ginninderra Press, 2017, 210 […]
September 29, 2017
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The Crystal Ballroom by Libby Sommer Ginninderra Press, 2017, 158 […]
September 29, 2017
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Not only have Islamic revivalists declared war on the West, our ruling elites have joined them. This is the arena in which the Battle of Ideas will be won or lost, and not through the version of appeasement given voice in British MP Liam Byrne's deceptively 'objective' bookOctober 30, 2017
13 mins
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Two effeminate young men in dresses prance onto the stage. […]
September 29, 2017
13 mins
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Anthony Powell is little read these days. Ask for his […]
September 29, 2017
21 mins
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The good king will have a character symbiotic with his […]
September 29, 2017
17 mins
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Cormac McCarthy is best known for No Country for Old […]
September 29, 2017
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The two incidents were separated by over sixty years and […]
September 29, 2017
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When the Big Three couldn’t compete with nimble imports flooding the US, the automakers' first instinct was to grope for the taxpayer teat and suckle long and hard. Oh, how the mighty do fall, in this case from building one B-24 bomber every hour to the shamelessness of mendicant also-ransOctober 23, 2017
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Maidenly (Solveig’s Song, Peer Gynt) (Sulur is the mountain […]
September 30, 2017
3 mins
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Scintillae Sky of verdigris. Ocean of slate. Threadbare clouds shapeshift, […]
September 30, 2017
1 mins
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The Lotus Looters The children of the garden are […]
September 30, 2017
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Christmas Eve among the Bristlecone Pines You traverse the […]
September 30, 2017
2 mins
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Belief’s Possibilities Your father insists he talks to you […]
September 30, 2017
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Van Diemen’s Land Road Strange moment on the road […]
September 30, 2017
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Two sides to my head I invited two lots of […]
September 30, 2017
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Poetry Is Like Looking Poetry is like looking for a […]
September 30, 2017
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Brick Time rots one, but they don’t break rank— […]
September 30, 2017
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Little Chris in the Garden This is the boy in […]
September 30, 2017
3 mins
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By the Herengracht Canal Seats are threadbare velvet. A […]
September 30, 2017
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Musician-Wren My mother, who today is just a coat hung […]
September 30, 2017
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Casualty My father arrived safely home From the carnage of […]
September 30, 2017
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