September 2019 Volume LXIII, Number 9, No. 559
Lucky to Have the Opera House
Pick a side: Bureaucratic Imperialism or Democratic Nationalism
The Regrettable Emphasis on ‘Remorse’
The Nun’s Story
The Legal Crisis Behind the Hong Kong Protests
A New Chinese 1989 is Nowhere in Sight
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Sir: Events at the time of the assessment, in the […]August 29, 2019
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The cultural revolutionaries in our universities, media and institutions deplore love of country as the gateway to evils such as racism, war and imperialism almost as if they would deplore romantic love as likely to lead to jealousy, divorce and murder. What they prefer -- and here the EU is the classic example -- is that member states be governed imperiallySeptember 12, 2019
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Suppose that after the war a Nazi criminal had said that he was sorry, that he now realised slaughtering immense numbers of people was very wrong and he would never do it again. Would such a monster's tears of regret, faux or genuine, earn him the gift of clemency? Unlikely, you say, but such is the guiding attitude at work daily in our courtsSeptember 28, 2019
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How many older women, seduced by feminist anti-maleness in the Greer–Friedan years, ditched their husbands and are now sour and lonely? How many girls schooled in 'sexual politics' will find relations with men more contractual than loving? Has it occurred to the radical Sister Joans of this world that the secular leftism they promote is the sworn foe of the faith they profess?September 21, 2019
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Even if the extradition bill is scrapped, the underlying grievances against Beijing will not be assuaged and Hong Kong may well become a city enduring a state of permanent unrest. The Hong Kong people are suffering in a super-sized way from the current frustration of many democracies -- growing mistrust and disbelief in their own governmentsAugust 31, 2019
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Rebellious Hong Kong bears the flame of 1989's democracy movement so brutally suppressed. But to imagine those massive protests might spread to the mainland, as some in the West are speculating, is to ignore that the Party's control and censorship are now so much stronger than was the case three decades ago. To their credit and peril, Hong Kongers stand aloneSeptember 5, 2019
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Hugh White's fantastic scenario for the wholesale restructuring of our armed forces is unhinged from reality. Rather, what we should be doing is making plain to Beijing and our neighbours that while we welcome China’s increased prosperity and are keen to trade under liberal rules, we will under no circumstances be kowtowing to BeijingSeptember 13, 2019
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My family was 'ethnically cleansed' and, soon after that, we became refugees fleeing the Soviets, a journey that ended 46 years ago in Australia. Believe me, I know a thing or two about migration, not least that one must never consider importing alien populations without addressing their integrationSeptember 23, 2019
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Eric Kaufmann's 'Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration, and the Future of White Majorities' is an important book despite its deficiencies. As a profoundly revisionist examination of the morality of white ethnic behaviour it broaches a taboo that for far too long has constrained rationality, fairness and uninhibited debateSeptember 24, 2019
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Given the push in Australia for gender-free sporting activities and boys' greater levels of aerobic fitness, strength, speed, agility and consequent prowess in most sports at most ages, girls should be asked what they think about taking the field against natal males. They aren't. Instead they're being toldOctober 3, 2019
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'My dear Miss Appleby,' said Holmes with a smile, 'I am already halfway to solving the case. Return to these quarters at eleven and I assure you the fiend will be unmasked who tweeted in your name a defence of free speech, much to the detriment of your reputation and standing as a celebrated liberal journalist.'September 10, 2019
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Dark Mofo thrives on controversy. In 2016 art students protested when their school was surrounded by poster artworks saying “Your work is shit” and last year, as the ABC reported, one event 'included mock crucifixions set to music, culminating in a frenzied squabble by blood-soaked participants writhing in the entrails from a freshly slaughtered bull'September 8, 2019
14 mins
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In the last two weeks of July, two former Chief […]
August 29, 2019
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Wind turbines and birds do not mix, and the impact on raptor species is particularly concerning. Wedge-tailed eagles, for example, take up to six years to reach breeding age and generally produce only one chick a year. When even Bob Brown can grasp the threat, why are we building more of them?September 16, 2019
23 mins
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Mr Dan Tehan “presents as a friend to classroom teachers”, as one newspaper described him. Evidently, the government’s benign policy towards the profession is not proving effective. Instead of friendship, some tough love is needed in the interests of the intellectual and academic quality of the teachers themselves and of the students they are supposedly equipped to educateSeptember 17, 2019
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The campus newspaper at the formerly respected university once condemned sushi as a “culturally appropriative sustenance system". You almost expect such silliness from students, but when college administrators cried 'racism' and sided with shoplifting sophomores against a local bakery they demonstrated that the ruinous madness of identity politics had reached the stageSeptember 15, 2019
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The growing phenomenon of the persecution of physicians who refuse […]
August 29, 2019
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If it is right to kill a human in the foetal stage for any reason whatsoever, then why would it not be right to kill an adult human for any reason whatsoever if there is no objective point of transition from the moral status of one to the moral status of the other?September 26, 2019
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Noel Hush, who died on March 20 at the age […]
August 29, 2019
12 mins
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Etiquette with Angels is a new book by Andrew Bullen […]
August 29, 2019
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Immersion in literature added something special to author Michael McGirr’s stock of knowledge, wisdom and experience. They helped save him from narcissism, materialism, heartlessness, faddish beliefs, lazy faith or despairing unfaith. The title of his reader's memoir, 'Books That Saved My Life', could not be more apt
August 29, 2019
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When a literary savant denounces Brexit as 'no friend to creative cosmopolitan literature or to attentive and responsive literary scholarship' things have taken a distinctly Orwellian, not to mention addled, turnSeptember 3, 2019
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We were homeward bound one night on the deep, Swinging […]
August 29, 2019
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The smell of the Falcon’s interior irritated the hairs up […]
August 30, 2019
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A chat with opinion editor and gastrophile James Morrow prompted us first to seek a particular recipe, then a tastier alternative, and then -- by Lord knows how many inexplicable online deviations -- to seek recipes favoured by horror-movie actors. That's how Boris Karloff's remarkable guacamole came to light and, I hope, to the tables of Quadrant readersSeptember 29, 2019
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For George Herbert “Thou who hast giv’n so much […]
August 30, 2019
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A Red Rhododendron i.m. Ivan Hrvatin She has signed […]
August 30, 2019
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Freshwater Mussels Black half-shells edge out of the grey noisome […]
August 30, 2019
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Bellaggio, Lago Maggiore Sitting on a plastic chair outside a […]
August 30, 2019
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At the Gathering of the Stargazers, Cobar, NSW Once again […]
August 30, 2019
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Tinnitus The hum of a powerful engine idling among the […]
August 30, 2019
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Amber Puppy What can an amber puppy mean in a […]
August 30, 2019
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Helios of Rhodes for Peter Schipperheyn Its sculptor, Charles […]
August 30, 2019
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The Martyred Mother i.m. Hashimoto Tecla and her children, Kyoto, […]
August 30, 2019
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Tae the glowrin’ ghoulies intent on filching the private letters […]
August 30, 2019
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The First Sea Was a Sound The first sea was […]
August 30, 2019
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