April 2018 Volume LXII, Number 4, No. 545
Verbal Curtsies
As Goes Hungary…
Eyesore Justice Now!
Vale Neil McDonald, 1940–2018
The Immoral Ayers Rock Climbing Ban
Western Civilisation’s Merits and Perils
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Like all zealots, those who peddle the notion of group identity as the paramount measure of the individual's worth are determined to make everyone else talk and think as they do. As with communism, for which it is a posthumous surrogate, identity politics is underscored by the authoritarian urgeApril 2, 2018
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Prime Minister Viktor Orban has married the disaffected blue-collar vote to traditional supporters of the mainstream Right. That’s why he’s loved and loathed across Europe—and why his government's survival or rejection at the upcoming election has a significance far beyond his nation's bordersApril 20, 2018
9 mins
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There can be no doubt that a fair and just society, to which we are ever urged by levellers to aspire, needs equality of taste as well as equality of opportunity and, of course, equality in economic outcome. Let us therefore also strive for the universalisation of kitsch and the prohibition of elitist good tasteApril 15, 2018
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Quadrant's longtime film critic passed away in February, much to the dismay of his friends and. Here are some of their tributes to a writer of independent mind, an author whose love and knowledge of cinema was but one aspect of a remarkable talent and mindApril 4, 2018
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Claims that Aborigines never ascend the monolith are false and the 'highly sacred nature' of the route a recent invention. The cultural-heritage significance of the climb to both Anangu and millions of non-Aboriginal visitors should be celebrated and maintained, not discouraged and condemnedApril 18, 2018
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Identity politics, a near-religious environmentalism, the promotion of multicultural 'otherness' and ceaseless encroachment of cultural Marxism represent the four fronts of an ongoing assault. As ANU's shameful rejection of the Ramsay endowment demonstrates, no quarter is givenJune 13, 2018
44 mins
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An education-union shop steward has voiced his resentment that money bequeathed by Paul Ramsay to establish the Centre for Western Civilisation is not being doled out by the ANU's academic board. Here, Tony Abbott explains what the undertaking is aboutMay 24, 2018
11 mins
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Fatally handicapped as PM by the conflicting demands his own mindset, he set a sacred loyalty to the union movement above and against the demands of total war. A puzzling figure of nobility and weakness, he is undeserving of the undiluted reverence accorded by so manyApril 23, 2018
29 mins
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Almost everything about the Turkish Republic is a lie or, at best, a half-truth, starting with its name. As the secular state is progressively dismantled the Islamic revivalism of the current regime is no mere nostalgia for the Ottoman heritage. It is something far more sinisterApril 26, 2018
14 mins
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Almost exactly forty years ago (November 1978), a special issue […]
March 29, 2018
25 mins
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The trial at which Socrates was sentenced to death is […]
March 29, 2018
14 mins
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Spreading the message “The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct” […]
March 29, 2018
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At a February 2000 press conference, the first man to […]
March 29, 2018
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There is mounting pressure on warmist researchers to come up with arguments, if not evidence, that will stand up in court. As climate models continue to get it wrong, often spectacularly so, the carpetbaggers' various lawsuits are in dire jeopardy, but that doesn't mean they won't stop tryingApril 13, 2018
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Many who emerge with a Bachelor of Arts degree rightly earn and confirm the poor reputation that degree now confers. They come out knowing nothing, and many plunge black into the schools, this time as teachers, to pass on nothing. It is a depressing sort of carouselApril 10, 2018
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Why is capitalism so often in the firing line of Christian churches? Perhaps they believe the Bible's enjoinment to share with the poor does not sit easily with the acquisitiveness that drives free enterprise. If so, today's Good Friday holiday is as good a moment as any to read this essay from Quadrant's archives and think againApril 2, 2021
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Dr Paul Bauert, an educated man, on Tuesday compared Nauru unfavourably with Auschwitz, a comment so far beyond sanity and couth that he may well have secured forever the crown of Australia's most odious virtue signaller. Joe Dolce wrote in our April, 2018, edition of Maximilian Kolbe and the real death camp. Someone should send Dr Bauert a copyFebruary 12, 2019
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May Gibbs wrote and illustrated her children’s stories, 'The Adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie' and it has never since been out of print. As a child, its baby-snatching villains terrified me, so Joseph Banks has my gratitude for first observing what a remarkable plant it isApril 8, 2018
13 mins
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In Black + White by Warren Mundine Pantera, 512 pages, […]
April 23, 2018
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The declining classes produce writers, even if they don’t always write on their own background. Look for example to the Old South and the fabulous literature of regret that poured forth as the leisurely lives of those formerly in charge faded and vanished foreverApril 17, 2018
13 mins
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All Australian plays are rubbish, apart from those which are […]
March 30, 2018
13 mins
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I am not sure why I decided to travel on […]
March 30, 2018
12 mins
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Cynicism shares our lunch these days, yet trust survives. It must, for we are human and at that level we still see the shining light of its truth. There’s relief in that, since a tendency to trust others, according to psychologists, is a strong predictor of subjective well-beingApril 21, 2018
14 mins
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The UN’s emphasis on per capita emissions tells us next to nothing about planetary survivability but a great deal about the world body's dishonesty. We’d be well rid of a corrosive organisation that is home to more criminals than Chicago in the 1920s. In per capita terms, of course.April 21, 2018
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Epic Lunar Perigee The skin of Earth itches, twitches, wrinkles […]
March 30, 2018
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Peacocks When the rain came that afternoon, I put on […]
March 30, 2018
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Cushion Moss The sad paragraphs in the paper offer no […]
March 30, 2018
5 mins
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Family Photograph: 1949 I’m with my family in Peak […]
March 30, 2018
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Going for a Burton I hear you sighing through the […]
March 30, 2018
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The Whale Watcher’s Road, Moreton Bay The Humpbacks have a […]
March 30, 2018
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Sense of Out-of-Place Barbecue. Unincorporated community in North Carolina. Bastardstown. […]
March 30, 2018
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Lineage You’ve heard it said, or seen it inferred, we […]
March 30, 2018
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On the Composition of Haiku i The haiku master— […]
March 31, 2018
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