March 2020 Volume LXIV, Number 3, No. 564
The Crown Prosecutor’s Retraction
When the Left Lies, Conservatives Plead Guilty
Wading in the Shallows of Wickedness
Closet Fliers
Status Seekers and the Quiet Australian
The Burden of Proof and the Pell Case
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Cardinal George Pell’s appeal against his conviction of historical sexual […]February 27, 2020
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Fake scandals generated by the Left are a near-daily headline staple, and so are the immediate renunciations of their own by those who should know better, certainly from bitter experience, in the hope of 'moving on'. In reality they will only be allowed to move on to the next faux scandal concocted by guerrilla journalists and internet mobsMarch 4, 2020
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If at a time of national emergency political leaders are observed eating a meal, they stand accused of callous indifference, even if we continue to eat meals ourselves. Going on a family holiday is deemed even worse. But I don’t feel all that sorry for them. He who lives by courting the mob dies by courting the mobMarch 14, 2020
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Leftists, in my experience, are not the kind to be inconvenienced by principles, so we can expect them to stand ready with imaginative justifications for denying others the same exemptions they grant themselves. To observe one of the most current examples, visit the departure lounge at your local airportMarch 20, 2020
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Australia was a society forged by emancipists and free settlers for whom opportunity and achievement, not rank and status, were the key criteria. Today, one way or another, 'who they are' not 'what they do' is key to the status seekers' psyche. Not surprisingly, a national neuroticism has explodedApril 3, 2020
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The conviction of the guilty is just; it is the […]
February 27, 2020
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Sir: Andrew Stone (January-February 2020) paints a bleak picture […]
February 27, 2020
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Growing up as the only child of a bereaved mother was surely the root of his eagerness to please — of the reluctance to be boring that weighed on him like a moral obligation. He wanted to live the life his parents were denied, to speak every language and read every book, to make phrases that were light on their feet but laden with universal truthMarch 12, 2020
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For most of his writing life Clive James was a […]
February 27, 2020
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It was Paris, May 1968, when Roger Scruton saw into […]
February 27, 2020
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We know what works and what doesn’t in boosting student outcomes. This attention to evidence, however, has been sidelined by a desire within the system to pursue experimental fads in classroom content and methods. The result: all too often curriculum development is an exercise in virtue signallingMarch 2, 2020
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Had Sinn Fein fielded candidates in every constituency at the recent election it would almost certainly have formed a single-party government. The Army of the Irish Republic would be answering to the IRA Chief of Staff and Ireland's police taking orders from the IRA man running the Department of Justice. Yes, it is that badMarch 5, 2020
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The pundits' immediate assertion upon the killing Iran's Qasem Soleimani was that Donald Trump had brought the world to the brink of war. They were wrong, as usual, which suggests it is their anti-Trump narrative, rather than its target and his policies, most in need of reviewMarch 10, 2020
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Christopher Hitchens, in his small book Letters to a Young […]
February 27, 2020
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We’re now legally compelled to believe differences of sex and gender don’t exist. Apparently, sexual identity is really gender identity, wholly fluid because socially constructed, while sex and gender are functionally independent; further, both are independent of evolutionary biology and can be changed. This is madnessMarch 23, 2020
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'It seems impossible for many Muslims to admit that 'Charlie Hebdo' was not guilty of any crime in publishing caricatures of Mohammed,' writes the artist Riss in his survivor's memoir of the 2015 attack. Rightly, he is especially critical of the 'collabos' who politely turn their gaze from the destruction of free speech and traditional freedoms by Islamic fascismMarch 17, 2020
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We must avoid pushing the West’s potential friends and admirers in China, who in essence think like we do, into the embrace of the nationalist-communist hardliners. That could have tragic consequences all round. Let’s not repeat history out of ignorance or spite!March 6, 2020
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Exciting progress in the nuclear industry—in safety improvements, waste disposal, cost reduction, small modular reactors—is passing us by in Australia. Technology doesn’t stop just because a government doesn’t like it. At the very least, the Luddite prohibition that has denied us the torch of progress for twenty years should be repealedAugust 21, 2020
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Revising history is not a new phenomenon; it is as […]
February 27, 2020
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In 'Superpower' Ross Garnaut stakes his reputation on renewable energy becoming sufficiently cheap and reliable to drive a heavy-industry renaissance. Is it credible? As credible as his claim that renewables and their subsidies bear no blame for the soaring electricity prices that have done so much to cruel the very industries he seeks to rebuildMarch 11, 2020
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Expert religious liberty litigator Luke Goodrich provides a compelling account […]
February 27, 2020
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Ignore the naysayers. The inspiring story of how Michelle Payne won the Melbourne Cup on 100-1 shot Prince of Penzance is likely destined, in the tradition of 'Phar Lap', to become an Australian classicMarch 7, 2020
14 mins
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On January 25, 2019, the Swedish sixteen-year-old Greta Thunberg warned […]
February 28, 2020
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John Newton rearranged himself on the railroad tracks. He was […]
February 28, 2020
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I am the rest between two notes That harmonise … […]
February 28, 2020
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After the Aztecs ran out of still-beating hearts, it came to be accepted that weather isn’t within humanity’s command. Lately, though, we’ve revived that ancient mindset, with all and any talk of emissions reduction inevitably invoking the need for endless and only marginally less painful 'sacrifices'March 30, 2020
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Firework Night in the Hospital Down at the end of […]
February 28, 2020
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Make Life an Art Head muddled, heart fatigued. A test […]
February 28, 2020
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Dead Mother Dead mother is a doll, with a doll’s […]
February 28, 2020
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Snow at Night Abrupt awake, my quilt and pillow cold […]
February 28, 2020
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Butterfly Sleeps Perched on the Temple Bell “butterfly sleeps perched […]
February 28, 2020
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Dove in a Squall Had one imagined them chiseled from […]
February 28, 2020
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The Loss After Sandro Penna The last thoughts—sunk in the […]
February 28, 2020
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Climber Since a steep winter walk crocked my left knee […]
February 28, 2020
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Raising a toast To Vanity I drink and cheap hotels […]
February 28, 2020
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Threesome in the beginning it was a way of filling […]
February 28, 2020
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