May 2019 Volume LXIII, Number 5, No. 556
Legal Process and the Phony Rape Crisis on Campus
An Outbreak of Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria
The Unusual Coyness of Tim Minchin
Borrowed Testimony
Mrs May’s Pantomime Horse Canters Back to Brussels
The Blue Skies of Sporting Memory
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The Left is nothing if not predictable: harass, denounce, slander and isolate anyone who dares to disagree -- all of which and more has been visited upon Bettina Arndt since her Order of Australia was announced. Today we re-publish an essay whose dismantling of the campus rape myth has helped drive Bettina's critics to their ongoing spasms of venomous hysteriaFebruary 1, 2020
13 mins
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Transsexuality, multiple interpretations of gender, racial politics, self-identity fantasies, pronoun dictatorship, and the immediate cry of “transphobia” in reaction to different conversations about dysphoria are weapons in the progressives’ war against everything. As in all wars, the casualties will be horrificMay 28, 2019
14 mins
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Sir: I recently read a review of Tim Minchin’s sold-out […]April 29, 2019
6 mins
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“Billy” was a 10-year-old student at St. Jerome School in […]
April 29, 2019
13 mins
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Theresa May rejected no-deal in her speech to the nation on the grounds that MPs had already rejected it. But MPs had already rejected all the other proposed solutions, including those she is now proposing with Corbyn, and yet she pushes ahead with them. Not surprisingly, the Prime Minister is distrusted by everyoneMay 9, 2019
9 mins
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I remember the days of the Gentlemen versus Players at Lord’s, the former being amateurs, at least nominally, and the latter professionals of lower social standing. They were all, as far as my blinkered eyes could see, gentlemen. Then along came Kerry Packer …May 26, 2019
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The construction boom which has led to a wealth of coins, arrow-heads, ritual amulets and weapons being unearthed -- and subsequently destroyed -- was largely prompted by the need to provide housing for the asylum seekers now pushing the crime-rate back towards, well, towards berserker levels.May 12, 2019
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Almost three months have passed since Brenton Tarrant entered the first of two Christchurch mosques and opened fire, leaving 51 dead. Inevitably and immediately he was branded a racist right-winger, as if that tag is sufficient to describe an admirer of totalitarian China bent on offering the blood of innocents to the greater glory of GaiaJune 8, 2019
20 mins
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The Australian Labor Party intends taking to the federal election […]
April 29, 2019
16 mins
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Peter Coleman died on March 31. He was Quadrant’s Editor […]
April 29, 2019
40 mins
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Based on his experience of trying to do so, novelist and literary scholar Michael Wilding recently remarked, 'I don’t believe you can actually teach creative writing.' Yet such utterly wrongheaded courses proliferate, much to the detriment of students left befuddled and bamboozledMay 7, 2019
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Demographic transformation was one powerful reason why the plain people of Britain voted for Leave, and also why the EU has tortured them for doing so. To this list of indignities add the inane venom of author Fintan O’Toole's monumentally absurd 'Heroic Failure'May 25, 2019
17 mins
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The Dreyfus Affair began with an inept investigation by French […]
April 29, 2019
15 mins
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Trust in politicians and in democracy is at an all-time […]
April 29, 2019
15 mins
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May 15 marked Naqba Day, as the Arab world knows the date on which Israel became a nation, so the calumnies were coming thick and fast. Being anti-Israel, you may have heard, does not imply anti-Semitism. With all the old blood libels repackaged as commentary, don't believe it for a secondMay 18, 2019
22 mins
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'Indigenous people are so wonderful. It’s such a privilege to be able to help them,' the remote-area nurse tells me over a beer. I express a little scepticism and she grasps, hesitantly at first, that she is in the company of someone who also knows about remote communities. Then the grim truths begin to pour outMay 29, 2019
15 mins
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Notice something about the modern Left's three articles of faith: open borders, climate paranoia and imported cheap stuff. All in one way or another impact deleteriously on some citizens more than others. All pay homage to globalisation and, as part of that, to the interests of those who used to be called foreigners. We need to take stockMay 30, 2019
15 mins
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I had hoped Attorney-General Christian Porter might finally see fit to put his weight behind my efforts to bring into the open the long-concealed Cook Report into ASIO's deep penetration during the Cold War. The reply from his freshly washed hands might better have been signed 'Pontius Pilate on the Molonglo'May 22, 2019
12 mins
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When he died in 2012 at the age of ninety-five, […]
April 29, 2019
14 mins
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Sydney was a lively place in the nineteenth century, as author Catie Gilchrist's lays out in 'Murder, Misadventure, and Miserable Ends'. Her catalogue of vile murders, macabre suicides and tragic misadventures, drawn and reprised from coronial records, paints a fascinating pictureJune 1, 2019
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The American author Nancy Brown was the keynote speaker at […]
April 29, 2019
12 mins
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I prefer to think of myself as being […]
April 29, 2019
16 mins
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The most memorable novels owe much to their opening sentences, and the three centuries since Daniel Defoe and his publisher pioneered the form with 'Robinson Crusoe' have produced more than a few memorable onesMay 31, 2019
24 mins
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Not since the altar-smashing Protestant reformers in the sixteenth century, or indeed the secularisers of the French Revolution, has there been destruction of ecclesiastical fittings and objets d’art on such a scale as we are witnessing today in Australia.May 5, 2019
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Vincent had been patronising Pip’s restaurant for nearly twenty years. […]
April 29, 2019
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I’m not a spiritual person, but surely the persecuted cartoonist has cursed the lot of Tim Soutphommasane from his cloud in the Great Hereafter. Not only did all those sweet gigs for Labor mates vanish on Saturday night, the former AHRC offence-hunter's side-splittingly ill-advised remarks demonstrate why that is a wonderful thingMay 20, 2019
8 mins
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Grandson The faint where are you voice comes to us […]
April 29, 2019
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Falling Asleep with a Clean Pillowcase The pillow case is […]
April 29, 2019
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Autumn in Acton Season of fructose gladness, its sugars mixed […]
April 29, 2019
1 mins
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Bob A Distinguished Member of the Humane Society, by Edwin […]
April 29, 2019
2 mins
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The Museum of Socialist Art, Sofia If it were […]
April 29, 2019
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Sydney to Melbourne If you didn’t have a “sleeper” […]
November 1, 2016
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Defending Australia Building sandcastles, we fair gloried in their ephemeral […]
April 29, 2019
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Message with no address For Louise Gluck Like a letter […]
April 29, 2019
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Colleague Dividing, conquering, you won The Roman History Chair from […]
April 29, 2019
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Don’t talk Don’t talk of gender or of sex. […]
April 29, 2019
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Dog Years I flick between channels and find a doco […]
April 29, 2019
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Mother and Child The burping done, he let his body […]
April 29, 2019
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Speaking of Language Throbs of fading silence searching for […]
April 29, 2019
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