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Used as cudgels in divorce actions, domestic violence orders all too often reward perjurers and ruin innocent lives
Sep 19 2024
36 mins
The vice-presidential candidate, like many former critics, came to accept Trump was ahead of the curve on economic nationalism
Sep 18 2024
17 mins
The punditocracy won't admit that, when it comes to Trump's sharp tongue, he's a novice compared to, say, Paul Keating
Sep 18 2024
4 mins
Christmas Books: Gregory Melleuish
What can a conservative and a defender of Western civilisation read these days?
I’ve worked my way through Robert Tilley’s excellent Benedict XVI and the Search for Truth published by St Paul’s Publications back in 2007. We need to understand and appreciate Benedict who is one of the leading intellectuals of our age.
I’m about to embark on Ian Morris Why the West Rules — For Now (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010). The relationship between West and East matters and we need to have a better understanding of the relationship between the two.
Having just been to Canada I am also about to read a book by a young Canadian conservative, Chris Champion, The Strange Demise of British Canada (McGill-Queens University Press, 2010). I think that Australian conservatives can learn a lot by looking at Canada, and also at the success of Stephen Harper. Which leads to my final read for summer which is John Howard’s Lazarus Rising (HarperCollins 2010). All books that will help to stimulate the conservative imagination.
Madam: Archbishop Fisher (July-August 2024) does not resist the attacks on his church by the political, social or scientific atheists and those who insist on not being told what to do.
Aug 29 2024
6 mins
To claim Aborigines have the world's oldest continuous culture is to misunderstand the meaning of culture, which continuously changes over time and location. For a culture not to change over time would be a reproach and certainly not a cause for celebration, for it would indicate that there had been no capacity to adapt. Clearly this has not been the case
Aug 20 2024
23 mins
A friend and longtime supporter of Quadrant, Clive James sent us a poem in 2010, which we published in our December issue. Like the Taronga Park Aquarium he recalls in its 'mocked-up sandstone cave' it's not to be forgotten
Aug 16 2024
2 mins
