Simon Holmes à Court claims his 'voices of' candidates represent the sensible centre, which is exactly the same turf on which the Liberals here in South Australia also claim to stand. Really? A 'conservative' party that endorses euthanasia and the latest of late-term abortions is 'moderate'? I don't think so. I believe, though, I have found a genuine, principled alternative

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The news came this morning that Geoffrey Luck, contributor and dear friend of Quadrant, had passed away in the night. Republished from 2014 is his account as a novice aviator of a Gypsy Moth's encounter with powerlines, an incident that very nearly the robbed the world of a lauded ABC journalist and, later, a frequent critic of his former employer. Geoff, you are missed already

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Two Diggers are belatedly awarded the US Silver Star, one of them posthumously, for heroism in Vietnam. The initial reporter did a straight-arrow job of covering the awards and cannot be faulted, but the story was then sucked into the national broadcaster's institutional maw, where it was chewed up and spat out across the country as a venomous reframing of the simple facts. Heads should roll, but at the ABC they never do

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If wind farms compete they will go out of business. It’s as simple as that, meaning the market must be rigged. One way would be to ensure that a single supplier monopolises output in a defined market. Another would see suppliers collude. A third, the most likely, would see government set a floor price or continue providing subsidies to rent-seeking carpetbaggers

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The key questions raised by Robert Kennedy's scathing appraisal of Anthony Fauci's career, motives and associates is how close is the collective hand of public health and political cadres to flicking the 450-volt switch on their compliance control boards? Just what level of mass obedience have they already achieved? And, most worrying of all, just how much further are they prepared to go?

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Complain about a nakedly biased report -- in this instance the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse -- and the ABC's complaints unit will invest considerable effort in explaining why black is white, up is down and why a foreign correspondent's editorialising is actually straight-bat reporting

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The national broadcaster has what amounts to a statute of limitations which is virtually impossible to overcome. To put it simply, if no one complains within six weeks of publication, the error, misrepresentation or whatever becomes etched in stone, forever to remain and immune to all further complaints. No doubt Bruce Pascoe heartily approves

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When did it become OK – I must have missed it – for children to be put at risk in order to protect the lives of the old and sickly? That’s where we are right now; pathetically and immorally eager to do the bidding of health bureaucrats in order to 'keep safe'. Where is that 'abundance of caution' we've heard so much about, or doesn't that apply to children?

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For several years in the Seventies, Robin Marsden was Quadrant's only full-time employee, shouldering every month the Herculean labours of one on whom everything depends. 'I have been blessed,' she would later write, 'to have worked as an editor with some of our finest writers.' And they, it must be said, were privileged to have worked with her

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Until he stood down for an investigation of his alleged abuse of a staffer with whom he was sharing a bed, Alan Tudge was that rarity among recent education ministers: someone up for the fight to see real history taught, not the national curriculum's compendium of Leftist memes, victimology and identity politics. Should his career be scuttled, the last hope for needed reform is a slim one indeed

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