After what he had been through, the horror of war and the enduring grief of family tragedies, Dad could have played the victim, but I don't believe such a thought ever crossed his mind. It took me years to grasp the truth that I was blessed with one of the best. The pity is that there aren't more fathers like him

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Tourists admire Bernini's masterwork in St Peter's for its awesome grandeur. Seen through the lens of Sir Kenneth Clark's insight, as Mervyn Bendle lays out in this latest installment, the master's work is a deliberate and defiant celebration of those elements of the Roman Church to which the Protestants of the north took such violent exception

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That a person should be handcuffed in her home and charged with an offence for merely signalling support for a peaceful protest is a serious enough violation of the freedom Australians once enjoyed and have gone to war to defend. But it gets worse. As you read this, Victoria Police are knocking down the doors of Premier Daniel Andrews' critics

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It's not just in 'Dark Emu' that the fauxboriginal, now celebrating his just-announced appointment as Professor of Indigenous Agriculture at Melbourne University, plays fast and loose with the facts. His earlier book, 'Convincing Ground', demonstrates his talent for making stuff up is anything but newly acquired

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In Victoria it doesn't pay to question Dan Andrews lockdown laws. He has a police force at his disposal, as this unfortunate woman found out

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In the optimistic belief that Victoria's Premier heads a 'responsible government', a group of Victorian physicians pleads for sanity: 'In short, the medical, psychological and social costs of the lockdown are disproportionately enormous compared to the limited good being done ... the current government policy is ill focused, heavy-handed, and unjustifiable'

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I recently heard a lecture online by John Woodhouse, former principal of Moore Theological College. Among many telling observations, one particularly struck me: If, indisputably, peerless Western civilisation was built on Christianity and yet Christianity is untrue, then it must be concluded that Western civilisation is built on a lie

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The reborn world of Michelangelo and Leonardo darkened when Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of Wittenberg Castle's church and what had flickered for a moment vanished and was gone. In its place, as Sir Kenneth Clark relates in Mervyn Bendle's latest guide to 'Civilisation', it was destruction and the darkness that haunted the souls of Hamlet, Dürer and others

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If you're Bruce Pascoe, the key to riches and acclaim is simple: get conservatives and genuine historians to condemn your book's bogus scholarship and, in a mad stampede, the useful idiots of the Left will fall over themselves to endorse its lies. The New York Times' Damien Cave is the latest to salute the flag of falsehood

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Australia's political class blindly swallowed WHO's alarmist and totally inaccurate prediction of 3.4 per cent mortality, in their panic offloading the responsibility to lead to panels of unelected 'experts' who imposed all the restrictions that continue to violate personal freedoms, have destroyed millions of jobs and will continue to ruin countless businesses

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