September 2018 Volume LXII, Number 9, No. 549
Indigenous Censorship, Ramsay Centre and more
Captain Cook and the Great Game
Genocide-Lite: The Massacre of Meaning
Hypocrisy by the Sackful
The Church in a Post-Christian Age
Art and Civilisational Collapse
Contents
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Sir: In August I visited the Melbourne Museum to see a […]August 30, 2018
7 mins
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Margaret Cameron-Ash's 'Lying for the Admiralty' demonstrates how Cook discovered Bass Strait and drew deliberately misleading maps, presenting Van Diemen’s Land as a peninsula and disguising his discovery of Sydney Harbour. His goal and that of the Admiralty was to mislead the FrenchJanuary 27, 2020
8 mins
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Vehemence is the tribute egotism pays to guilt: 'I ought to feel the wrongs of the world deeply because that is how good people feel them: therefore, if I express myself strongly enough, I will be seen as good.' The stronger the words, even when grossly misused, the more radiant the projected virtue
September 21, 2018
8 mins
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Women in European cities have been attacked, slashed and had acid thrown in their faces for wearing 'immodest' dress in areas where Islamic misogyny prevails. Yet what garners the most reactive ink? Boris Johnson and his column decrying the burka
September 20, 2018
8 mins
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When God is reduced to The Cosmic Therapist and we combat the culture wars' defeat of Christian conservatives with a middle-class moralism that prescribes being happy with oneself and nice to others, as Rod Dreher's The Benedict Option argues, we are bringing knives to a gunfight
September 12, 2018
18 mins
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I am haunted by a strange feeling these days. I […]
August 30, 2018
13 mins
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In rejecting the Ramsay Centre, ANU insisted it teach about Western civilisation, with all the leftist orthodoxy that implies. Ramsay wants students to think freely under the influence of history's most profound minds. That's the impasse in a nutshell: academic autocracy vs unfettered inquiry
September 3, 2018
18 mins
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Madeleine Albright saw hope of future employment dashed when Donald Trump took the White House and that setback seems to have inspired a deranged bitterness: her girl lost, therefore the winner is a 'proto-fascist'. That ridiculous notion informs an even more ridiculous bookSeptember 17, 2018
8 mins
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If you are an accountant, engineer, doctor, pilot, even an AFL footballer, check what your society, association or federation has to say on your behalf about, for example, Aboriginal constitutional recognition. You may well find they are promoting a Left agenda with which you radically disagree
September 26, 2018
19 mins
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The furious, unhinged and ongoing reaction to Hillary Clinton's 2016 defeat reveals the extent to which leftist poison has penetrated not just Washington but the whole Western political class. Trump's task is to lance the abscess while there are healthy parts remainingOctober 14, 2018
15 mins
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Double standards are far more consistent than hemlines in an industry which recently saw Teen Vogue, published by the decidedly capitalist Condé Nast, honour the anniversary of Karl Marx’s birth with a gushing article describing how he exposed the evils of, yes, capitalism
September 30, 2018
19 mins
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Health bureaucrats and activists, backed by nanny-state politicians, are prosecuting a 'war on obesity'. That the statistics -- the untampered statistics, that is -- do not support their claims matters not. Once again, we're seeing a bid by self-anointed to dictate how the rest of us must eat, drink and live
September 19, 2018
8 mins
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National energy policy is failing to satisfy what has been […]
August 30, 2018
9 mins
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Ziggy Switkowski estimated nuclear power could deliver a third of Australia’s electricity, with a resulting 18 per cent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions. Instead, green ideology's absurdities prevail, not least South Australia's need for highly polluting diesel generators to keep the lights on
September 11, 2018
15 mins
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I have yet to find any respected social scientist who […]
August 30, 2018
25 mins
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Violence by women against men receives little attention, yet nearly four decades of research reveals they are also targets of physical abuse. Why the silence? Because the activists' ultimate goal is to tar all men, not just the relatively few perpetrators, as a collective and universally guilty group
September 24, 2018
34 mins
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Michael Collins Persse was one of the greatest schoolmasters of […]
August 30, 2018
14 mins
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You’ve never heard of Odin in relationship to Arthur because from the Roman conquest on, Odin was a forbidden name in Britain, proscribed by the Caesars and then by Christianity. But the more one looks, the deeper one digs, the more obvious the connection becomesJanuary 12, 2019
43 mins
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The Bootle Boy: An Untidy Life in News by Les […]
August 30, 2018
12 mins
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The Vanished Land: Disappearing Dynasties of Victoria’s Western District by […]
August 30, 2018
8 mins
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So Far, So Good by Ross Fitzgerald & Antony Funnell […]
August 30, 2018
8 mins
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There is indeed life after politics, as Margaret Thatcher's transport minister demonstrates with his series Great British Railway Journeys. As even a Guardian writer concedes, Portillo is 'a weirdly compelling host' whose passion for trains and history cannot help but take viewers along for the rideSeptember 15, 2018
18 mins
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Ethel Turner wrote Seven Little Australians in a house just […]
August 30, 2018
11 mins
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Born at Thirsk, educated at Carlton Miniott village school in […]
August 30, 2018
12 mins
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I live, I still live, and I think many of […]
August 30, 2018
19 mins
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An elderly gent ambled towards me on the walking track. […]
August 30, 2018
11 mins
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My optometrist then told me I had the same problem as Hillary Clinton, whose corrective prism was so clumsily installed it was nothing less than a scandal. I was now seeing the world as did modern America’s worst presidential candidate. Great. Just great.
October 6, 2018
8 mins
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Tropical Storm The palm trees urge on the wind, frantic […]
August 30, 2018
2 mins
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Bingham’s Ghost Bingham, alias Lord Lucan vanished for forty years […]
August 30, 2018
1 mins
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Sixteen Is a Very Difficult Age, You Know Well yes […]
August 30, 2018
1 mins
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Dry Rot Making conversation while waiting on the tee I […]
August 30, 2018
3 mins
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Distinguished Transported Daniel Connor. Seven years for sheep stealing. […]
August 30, 2018
1 mins
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Five haiku above the snow what’s left of our world […]
August 30, 2018
1 mins
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I Would if I Could The boring sleeps! Each day, […]
August 30, 2018
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Saguaro The Saguaro tree springs from a sea floor turned […]
August 30, 2018
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