How have we come to a situation where, as some polls suggest, most Australians are so concerned about dangerous climate change that they will put aside the very tools and technologies that have sustained clean air, clean water, nutritious food and long life? More importantly, is the perceived danger real and will the reduction of […]

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This political caricature of the Australian experience is the curriculum we can expect Macintyre to deliver to the Rudd government. It is no wonder that schoolchildren who have tasted earlier offerings from the same left-wing menu regard Australian history as dreary and uninspiring.

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There are two main questions to ask about any paid maternity leave scheme: Who pays for it?, and, How long should it extend for?

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Of the making of public insanities there is no end, it seems. Each passing day brings more examples of idiocy from our intellectualoids, elites and activist groups.

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In the past week, the Australian media have given copious quantities of space and time to commentators seeking to blame the American sub-prime loans crisis on the market economy.

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Academics in the field of terrorism studies at two Australian universities have responded to a critique of their work by Dr Mervyn Bendle in Quadrant’s September edition by trying to close down debate and punish its author. They have approached Bendle’s employers at James Cook University in Townsville to recommend he be investigated for academic misconduct and suitability for academic employment.
Within a week of the publication of Bendle’s article, the left-wing academics he criticised approached the JCU Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sandra Harding, to take action against him and suggested his head of department, Professor Richard Lansdown, re-think Bendle’s fitness as a university-employed scholar. At the same they also demanded the September edition of Quadrant be recalled and pulped, and that Quadrant Online remove the article in question from the internet.
These actions represent disturbing developments not only for academic freedom but also national security.

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Anthony Burke to Sandra Harding Paul Pickering to Richard Lansdown Bowden, Lovell and Burke to editor of Quadrant Kenneth Minogue to editor of Quadrant Anthony Burke to Mervyn Bendle Michael Davis response to Mervyn Bendle Mervyn Bendle responds to Michael Davis

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The term ‘fundamentalism’ is today taken as a term of derision.

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A mighty prophet has just left us. One of the great figures of the past century has passed away.

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One of the most common arguments for the legalisation of abortion is the issue of the so-called hard cases.

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