September 2017 Volume LXI, Number 9, No. 539
Why French Lost to English
Gender Diversity in Khaki
The Left’s Most Venerable Tradition
The Fading of Scarlet Letters
Two Incommensurable Americas
The United States as the New Middle Kingdom
Contents
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Sir: In his article on the decline of the French […]August 31, 2017
15 mins
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The rot goes further back than David Morrison's ridiculous tenure atop the ADF. Thirty years ago, Kim Beazley established the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) and outsourced stewardship to the University of New South Wales. It has been a downhill ever sinceSeptember 2, 2017
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The rise of Trump and the shock of Brexit have set the chattering classes to lamenting the rise of 'populism'. What they decline to understand is that these upheavals happen when voters realise governments are not their servants but insufferable masters. Populism is what comes nextSeptember 25, 2017
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The only way to eliminate hypocrisy from the human repertoire is to have no standards at all, since practically no one, except for saints, lives up to the ideals he proclaims. A society without hypocrisy, in which all were saints, would be decidedly uninterestingSeptember 22, 2017
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The 'middle' ground of US policy and perspectives is a mess of graceless, cumbersome, knotty and embarrassing jerry-built legislation claiming to bridge what is an unbridgeable chasm. The conflicting truths of American life as seen by Left and Right cannot be reconciled. There is no meaningful in-betweenOctober 4, 2017
37 mins
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The rise of China in the wake of the slow […]
August 31, 2017
21 mins
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In the televised interviews with Richard Nixon conducted by David […]
August 31, 2017
27 mins
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In The Strange Death of Europe Douglas Murray notes among other dispiriting statistics that 130,000 women in Britain have suffered from female genital mutilation. That barbarity has been illegal for three decades, yet no one has been successfully prosecutedOctober 16, 2017
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The transmutation of Australia into a kaleidoscope of diasporic communities -- most with shallow roots in this land and little connection to each other -- represents a social experiment on a colossal scale. To mention this transformation, however, is to incite cries of 'xenophobe' and 'racist'October 6, 2017
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Mainstream reviews of Donald Trump's recent Warsaw speech laid bare the modern Left’s modus operandi in attempting to criminalise any opinion that gainsays identity politics and political correctness. Conflating “the West” with “the white national right” is nothing less than perverseSeptember 28, 2017
15 mins
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The Council recommends: 1. That a referendum be held to […]
August 31, 2017
23 mins
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In a not-too-distant future, the House of God has moved with the times to embrace the re-cast creeds of fashionable devotions, from nude mimes to the Trinity's expansion with the addition of the Rainbow Serpent. A fantasy, true, but only justOctober 1, 2017
22 mins
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Domestic and family violence is too grave a problem to […]
August 31, 2017
15 mins
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In recent years the State of Israel has become an […]
August 31, 2017
7 mins
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Did Malcolm Fraser confuse his memories of what was said on the telephone and what took place later at Government House? Sir John Kerr said he did and Fraser insisted his version was correct, so who to believe? Certainly not the latter, a most unreliable sourceOctober 21, 2017
21 mins
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The seemingly endless second prime ministerial stint of Liberal Party […]
August 31, 2017
9 mins
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Occasionally one finds, despite familiarity with someone for several years, […]
August 31, 2017
9 mins
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Fault Lines by David Pryce-Jones Criterion Books, 2015, 364 pages, […]
August 31, 2017
8 mins
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The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel Text, 2016, […]
August 31, 2017
8 mins
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Up Came a Squatter: Niel Black of Glenormiston, 1839–1880 by […]
August 31, 2017
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Peter Ryan's character was forged in the horrors and losses of war. Peter was self-reliant, principled, trustworthy, willing to sacrifice everything, and embodied the best Australians of his era. We have changed and there are few like him today, yet we will need his kind againSeptember 9, 2017
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Those who endured this week's Q&A would be hard pressed to nominate a greater peddler of oily sophistries and dubious statistics than Shashi Tharoor, the Indian lawmaker who wants Britain to pay compensation for its colonialism. His book is reviewed in September's QuadrantSeptember 7, 2017
17 mins
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German successes against Denmark, Norway, Belgium and France were a product of the geopolitical situation, thanks to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact which gave Hitler a free hand in the west. Dunkirk was a defeat, that's true. But Churchill's resolve to fight sowed the seed of victorySeptember 10, 2017
10 mins
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Even with the strict wartime censorship it was obvious to […]
August 31, 2017
13 mins
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You had to get out of them occasionally, those Australian […]
August 31, 2017
21 mins
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During a valedictory interview on the ABC, Gillian Triggs said of evidence that she had been a little imprecise when answering Senate inquiries: “To a high degree the allegations are false.” Is that not the most beautiful legalistic evasion you’ve ever heard?September 24, 2017
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Half-Price Hardback As the bookshops die in country towns […]
August 31, 2017
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Little Blue Book We were both eleven or twelve, […]
August 31, 2017
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Numbers Another Christmas, another New Year’s Eve, the world […]
August 31, 2017
2 mins
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Sestina There was her diary unveiling my father’s secret, […]
August 31, 2017
1 mins
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Eye to Lizard Eye We sit I on my rock […]
August 31, 2017
2 mins
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Channel Country Each year big rains leave the Diamantina […]
August 31, 2017
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On a Branch A finely tiger coloured sporran of […]
August 31, 2017
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Our Street Our poor mangy bloody street. If it […]
August 31, 2017
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Melbourne Morning for Chris Nicholson As I sat resting […]
August 31, 2017
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