The latest fatal helicopter crash in the Northern Territory raises serious questions about the use of low-lead aviation fuel, mandated for environmental reasons, and its part in the premature ageing and failure of engine parts. In this case my interest goes beyond the technical: the pilot was a member of my extended family

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When even a Labor-leaning economic pundit can see that now, with a property downturn evident, is not the time to start tampering with investment-property tax laws, it should be a no-brainer for the Coalition to go on the offensive. Another ‘should be’, alas

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Blaming climate change for the infernos that have left scores dead is not only simplistic, but culpably unhelpful. This is because it distracts attention from what to do right now to ensure the killer bushfires do not happen again next summer

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Apologists and rationalisers, who constitute almost all of the political and media class, prefer to keep the focus on ISIS as the model of ‘bad Islam’, rather than the broader creed of 1.8 billion from which the seeds of mayhem are scattered. Don’t they ever wonder at the difficulty of naming a Muslim-majority society which boasts internal harmony and doesn’t trouble its neighbours?

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Stunned, reeling, humiliated and rejected, the Liberal Party’s leading lights have been quick to attribute Saturday’s defeat to their Canberra colleagues’ dumping of Malcolm Turnbull. Quadrant Online readers are invited to endorse or dispute that view in our comments thread

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In science especially, uncertainties, conflicting evidence and verification of results need greater attention, while the pseudo-scientific claims of authority and consensus must be recognised and dismissed as irrelevant. Fortunately, the tools are almost at hand to achieve this

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Australian governments pour billions of dollars into what educrats and tame ministers insist is quality teaching, yet our schools’ global ranking keeps slipping. Take a look at what kids are being taught and the fact-free green/left indoctrination explains an awful lot

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When PM Scott Morrison invited Islamic leaders to discuss terror’s homegrown advocates the response was an immediate and arrogant refusal to take part. As those huffy imams decline to help shape a solution, coercive measures are both morally impeccable and logically unassailable

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It beggars belief that while the national curriculum includes literally hundreds of references to indigenous culture, history and spirituality there are no more than a handful of references to Christianity and its contributions to the way we live

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Unless one is coming at you with a knife it can be hard to tell an extremist from a moderate, so here’s a handy guide: Muslim extremists will kill you while moderates deal in excuses and rationalisations for their more ardent brethren. Ultimately, though, both take their cues from the Koran

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