June 2018 Volume LXII, Number 6, No. 547
Abolish Them
The Second Coming of Karl Marx
The Lethal Urge of the Anointed
Glory, Jest and Riddle
The Australian Forever
Enlightenment Virtues, Cook and Our Origins
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Sir: Stuart Lindsay’s article on the Family Court (May 2018) […]May 31, 2018
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One thing young people are very unlikely to learn—not from our education system anyway—is that no simple concept can ever hope to explain all of human history, or even most of it. Denied this insight, the notion that history has been determined by class struggles is an easy sellMay 31, 2018
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Theologians will tell you any sin is easier to commit the second time, even murder. If one can justify a first murder, doesn’t that justification point to the necessity of a second murder? Soon, as did IRA killer Dolours Price, you might find yourself abducting and executing a terrified mother of tenJune 23, 2018
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When I review my life, I realise how little I have had to complain about-- which, of course, has never stopped me. A man who, like me, has been free to make his own stupid decisions, yet has suffered little hardship as a result, is a fortunate one indeed.July 6, 2018
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'All happy families are alike,' Tolstoy observed, but 'each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way'. And especially unhappy just at the moment are the Murdochs, described in a spate of recent reports as deploying lawyers in a bitter dispute over the future of the family trust. For those who value The Australian, this is importantJuly 26, 2024
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With our colonial foundations grievously misrepresented, it is vital to note the honourable intentions of men like Cook, Banks, Phillip and Macquarie contributed to a distinct Australian culture—positive, rational, egalitarian and practical. No wonder the Left detests the nation that grew from those seedsApril 29, 2020
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For many groups, such as Copts and Jews, empires ruled by the Ottomans, Habsburgs and Britain were frequently more benign than the ethnically based nation-states that succeeded them. The plight of the East African Indians once British rule ended constitutes a clear exampleJune 27, 2018
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The devastating first assault on Darwin included 188 aircraft: thirty-six fighters, eighty-one high-level bombers and seventy-one dive-bombers. The Japanese forces then settled down to a pattern and the bombers kept coming, from Exmouth to Townsville, over the next two yearsJuly 7, 2018
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Historian K.S. Inglis’s widespread and systematic prejudice towards churches is manifest in his book 'Sacred Places', which omits mention of war memorials in places of worship and the minimises the role of church leaders in the birth and evolution of Anzac traditionsJuly 8, 2018
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Gender has nothing to with biology, don't you know -- and should you beg to differ, if you cling to the view of there being only two sexes, brace for the sanctions various legislatures around the world are keen to impose on those who persist in thinking unacceptable thoughtsJuly 23, 2018
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The proselytisation of postmodernist theory, according to Jordan Peterson, is less an emancipatory project than intellectual charlatanry and the relinquishment of individual responsibility. If a truth is validated by its teller's enemies, the Canadian academic is right on the moneyJune 20, 2018
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The Commonwealth legislative system which came into effect in 2012 ostensibly to control the live export of our animals operates as a sham, and the Department which has administered and continues to administer the system has long known as muchJune 7, 2018
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My local council is infested with bullying eco-lefties and instinctive regulators of others' lives, actions and opinions. As we all pay to have our rubbish collected, I yearn for the day when these aldermanic scolds look in the mirror and recognise it is their civic duty to consign themselves to the tipJune 26, 2018
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Australia has a history curriculum that covers students from Years […]
May 31, 2018
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For more than a century the NSW Department of Education employed inspectors to assess teachers and to ensure the proper conduct of schools. With the abolition of the inspectorial system we lost the most vital and effective means of identifying teachers for promotion to school leadershipJuly 12, 2018
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When the topic is race, the media concentrates on fripperies, such as Hollywood gripes that black actors aren't being nominated for enough. Meanwhile, the racist murders of white South Africans by black thugs is deemed too sensitive to note, let alone protestJune 5, 2018
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Perhaps the best single defence against suicide ideation in the ranks is for the ADF to uphold the natural grace of the military profession—a grace that underlies an ethos of service and steadfastness of spirit—and which embeds these virtues in a community of comradesJune 22, 2018
36 mins
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The nature of spying requires its operatives to commit the […]
May 31, 2018
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Back in the halcyon days of the early 1990s, the […]
May 31, 2018
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Denny Day: The Life and Times of Australia’s Greatest Lawman: […]
May 31, 2018
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The Unit Guide: The Australian Army, 1939–1945 by Graham R. […]
May 31, 2018
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The in-depth, long-play serials of episodic television bring us back to those now practically obsolete, brick-like Victorian novels—the kind you could get lost in for weeks. True, there are minor quibbles about the series' rendering of history, but overall it is an enthralling delightJune 10, 2018
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In the culture wars our conservative governments are batting for, and paying, the other side. Though it always ends in their own masochistic humiliation, they never consider a cultural policy which would remove the Left's stranglehold, patronage and dominion over the taxpayers' arts dollarJune 17, 2018
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Letters and talk should always be free and reckless among […]
May 31, 2018
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This year is the twentieth anniversary of the death of […]
May 31, 2018
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The road got steadily worse as Andrew approached the end […]
May 31, 2018
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As all will know who dip into The Guardian to keep tabs on the latest lefty passions stirring the hearts of ninnies, the writers and editors are to rational thought what grease traps are to kitchen sinks. No wonder they didn't see the downside in my neat scheme to put John Kerry in the White HouseJuly 2, 2018
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Swallows Returning Manoeuvre and zip make a trio of […]
May 31, 2018
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A West Coast of Tasmania Atmosphere Hot summer Saturday […]
May 31, 2018
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The Compost Heap The compost heap lay steaming like […]
May 31, 2018
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On My Sixty-Second Birthday To think I’m sixty-two and still […]
May 31, 2018
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Tampering with a Titleist I’ll take some sandpaper to […]
May 31, 2018
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The Kite Surfers’ Chorus, Cronulla, 2018 The soprano you […]
May 31, 2018
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Wandoo Hollows i Beginning to call the wood ducks […]
May 31, 2018
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The Company Couple after a painting by Aelbert Cuyp […]
May 31, 2018
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Between the Islands of the Pacific Because by now […]
May 31, 2018
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Style Notes #3 They wore seersucker in the Raj, […]
May 31, 2018
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