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In the Senate, a very queer notion of free speech
Sep 20 2024
2 mins
Researchers posit an irrefutable link between suspensions and incarceration. A harder look reveals this simply isn't true
Sep 19 2024
14 mins
Used as cudgels in divorce actions, domestic violence orders all too often reward perjurers and ruin innocent lives
Sep 19 2024
36 mins
Christmas Books: John Stone
My recommended list comprises four books on politics and two on the “global warming” debate.
The Howard Era (Quadrant Books), 25 essays on the record of the Howard Government, will remain the definitive work. (Disclosure: Four essays are mine).
Complementing it is Lazarus Rising (Harper Collins), Howard’s own personal and political autobiography.
Two books address the internal dysfunction of the Labor Party. Simon Benson’s Betrayal: The Underbelly of Australian Labor (Pantera Press) is a gripping account of the devastation within NSW Labor, written just before Kevin Rudd’s political assassination by the same forces.
More recently, Power Crisis: The Self-Destruction of a State Labor Party (Boomerang Books) provides a more widely-ranging and powerful lament by one of Labor’s most thoughtful former Ministers, the Hon Rodney Cavalier.
In Climate: The Counter Consensus (Stacey International) Professor Bob Carter provides a highly readable and utterly convincing survey of the nonsense on this topic with which both sides of politics continue to assail us, while The Climategate Emails (available from the Lavoisier Society) is an exemplary study of the scientific fraud resorted to by principal advocates of that nonsense.
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
