This new holiday quiz from Australian Conservative will keep you guessing. Read more …

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In a few hours, George W. Bush will walk out of the Oval Office for the last time as president. As he leaves, he carries with him the near-universal opprobrium of the permanent class that inhabits our nation’s capital. Yet perhaps the most important reason for this unpopularity is the one least commented on. More […]

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I saw Tracey at the library yesterday. She was releasing her mum, the one with Alzheimer’s, for an afternoon's blogging.

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The fate of working class Americans who migrated to the Soviet Union in the 1930s is recounted in a new book which also documents the silence and cowardice of the western Left who, though aware of the reality behind the Stalinist façade, never spoke out against the horror.

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The distinctive feature of Australiaphobia is a desire to hurt, inflict pain, and wound Australian society.

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This year we have an important double anniversary of Charles Darwin: the 200th anniversary of his birth, and the 150th anniversary of his classic work, The Origin of the Species. Already plenty of celebrations and commemorative events are under way. But there is a real mix of opinion in regards to Darwin and his thought.

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You know Bernard Black. Everyone knows Bernard. The writer you think of whenever the words “Australia’s Leading Indigenous Writer and a Living National Treasure” pop into your mind.

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… Hardly a coup to boast about. It is a feat of derring-do on about the level of stealing books from libraries on busy days. Read more …

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When the hoax was blowing through the media last week the hot air blew in some strange non-readers.

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Jennifer Marohasy on hoaxing Quadrant and a great idea for revenge.

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