June 2019 Volume LXIII, Number 6, No. 557
The Estimable Disjunct
Operation ‘Get Pell’
A Storm is Coming on the Chiltern Hills
Commissars at the End of History
Legal and Cultural Clashes over Gender Identity Law
Why the Second Jury Found George Pell Guilty
Contents
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Sir: Frankly, I fail to understand Alan N. Cowan’s objections […]May 30, 2019
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The worst moment in Julia Gillard’s life must have come […]
May 30, 2019
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Prince, Prince-Elective on the modern plan, Fulfilling such a lot […]
May 30, 2019
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In daily life, in professional life, in very nearly every aspect of modern life, one is subjected to ever more bureaucratic procedures of no conceivable value except to make us feel that we are small and under surveillance -- tiny cogs in a large and not terribly bright machineJune 10, 2019
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Paradoxically, all forms of gender identity rely on, and are defined against, biological sex. To be on a spectrum of male to female relies on humans being male or female in the first place. The idea of being non-binary is defined against binary, two opposites, male and female
May 30, 2019
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Why was the second verdict by the jury in the […]
May 30, 2019
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Vivian Waller is the principal lawyer at Waller Legal, a […]
May 30, 2019
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Many of the crimes forming the basis of claims for compensation involve allegations of historical child sexual abuse. In most cases, there is no evidence of the crime itself, let alone of who might be the criminal, yet we are asked to accept such stories and do so without any further questions
May 30, 2019
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With the collapse of socialism as any sort of credible project, identity politics has become the essence, and central priority, of progressive ideology. As someone who was consistently affiliated with the Labor Left over a long political career, I see this as a tragic misdirection
May 30, 2019
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What truth-seeking has the mass media pursued during the great Russiagate hoax? For more than two years, the New York Times, Washington Post and countless other Big Media outlets demonised Donald Trump as Putin's puppet. That there was no evidence mattered not at allJune 26, 2019
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Last Letter to Les Murray Les, I’m writing to you […]
May 30, 2019
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You might think the study of 'Paradise Lost' would be taken for granted. Alas, the almost total disappearance of the monumental work as a subject is a breathtaking measure of both the degradation visited upon the study of English and the ideology of the social engineers who now prevail in our universitiesJune 23, 2019
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Menzies’ vision for educational institutions to produce erudite, cultured and well-rounded graduates, with a humane understanding of their obligations, is a salutary reminder to the academy that the education business is infinitely more than just a commercial enterprise.June 12, 2019
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Among its other effects, the liberalisation of abortion has had a very significant impact upon America’s political outcomes. Had the black population been significantly larger, it is doubtful any Republican candidate would have won the presidency since George H.W. BushJune 14, 2019
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In March 1992, I attended a historic event: the ordination […]
May 31, 2019
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The sign at the base of the western climbing spur asserts, “Under our traditional law climbing is not permitted”, which is a lie writ large. There is still time for access to the Rock to be preserved -- and with it the heritage of all Australians, not just AboriginesJune 11, 2019
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The most shocking example of the intolerance and insanity gripping universities, as detailed in Heather Mac Donald's new book, isn't the behaviour of brattish student protesters but the sycophantic response by college administrators. She writes of the US, but Australians will have no trouble recognising the same symptoms hereJune 7, 2019
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According to Julia Shaw, who lectures in the jurisprudence of brain science and psychology, 'memories' are created and re-created in an infinite chain, with each re-creation subtly or radically altering what the mind retains. It gets worse. The brain then 'remembers' the re-creation, not the originalJune 3, 2019
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This appears to be the first book of its kind, […]
May 31, 2019
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This extraordinary and inventive novel opens with a letter, written […]
May 31, 2019
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I do not think it at all likely that we […]
May 31, 2019
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The difference between the theatre of not-so-long-ago and now is that modern audiences don’t know what has been discarded and what has been added. What seemed youthful experimentation has aged into Alzheimer productions of the classics which have lost all sense and any sensibility.
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John Whitworth’s poems are as smart and full of fun […]
May 31, 2019
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I first discovered Chesterton when I was twelve and I […]
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Like a one-man local Bodleian or Library of Congress, Scots-descended […]
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Utzon's drive to unify architecture with landscape saw him produce what amounts to strong sculpture, the result of which is a unity we call 'a monument'. Thus was he able not merely to reject the overwhelming dullness and banality of global industrial architecture, but to vanquish itAugust 10, 2019
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Much has been written of the Sydney Opera House, its design, feuds and political storms that surrounded its construction, but no account can match that of Jack Zunz. There almost from the very start, it was he who made Utzon's soaring concept into a workable reality and his book sets the record straightJuly 6, 2019
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I was deeply and passionately in love, as only an adolescent who has glimpsed another existence can be. It happened quickly. I knew almost nothing about him, and he barely registered that I existed, but he was the whole wide world wrapped up as a present for meJune 16, 2019
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In 1972, after a long absence, I returned to Australia […]
May 31, 2019
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Summer’s sounds are now long faded, replaced by the less […]
May 31, 2019
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The Girl Who Hugs Dogs The girl who hugs dogs […]
May 31, 2019
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Cilla, writing We are the shortest laureates*. But this afternoon […]
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The 20s and 30s When every Dan was dapper, And […]
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The Hand of God The building-site crane arches high over […]
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Good deed A ladybird lifted From the green pool where […]
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