How mad is life in Australia's national asylum? Well, here is NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard from just the other day: 'The booster is ... pushing back against the evil of this virus, the evil air can wreck upon us.' Meanwhile, in the sane world of benign air, the readily spread but mild Omicron strain is removing any excuse for restricting freedoms

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Settle down to enjoy an SBS travel show and who pops up as a featured player? Why, the founder of modern Communism, who is hailed for producing with Frederick Engels 'the closest, most important friendship in world history'. That reverence for one of world's greatest villains is untempered, of course, by any mention of the millions starved, imprisoned and slaughtered

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Bruce Pascoe swears blind his ancestors -- well, someone's ancestors -- invented bread 120,000 years ago, but that hardly constitutes a full and decent meal. But now, in a practical example of that reconciliation business we keep hearing about, ancient meets new in the fauxborigine's latest book which advocates 'harvesting' roadkill. It's a notion to fire the imagination, Tony Thomas's at any rate

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America's founders had it right when they drew up the Bill of Rights and added the first ten amendments to their Constitution, all having to do with to do with shielding the individual from the State. COVID has shown that, while they didn’t try hard enough, the fruit of their efforts still surpass the protections extant in Australia and what used to be known as the Free World

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'Tis the season to be ... quoting spurious scriptural interpretations in support of open-borders immigration policies. Baby Jesus was a refugee, don't you know? A simple slogan for simple minds, it cannot withstand the slightest scrutiny. Yet year after year, that is what we are loudly and insistently told

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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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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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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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Although they may shudder to hear it from from Quadrant, we should offer three hearty cheers for the organisers and schedulers of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival. For once, when the anti-Zionist cancel mob came howling to have an Israeli film scratched from the programme, the organisers told them what to do with their complaints

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