Jewish Jerusalem is a shining symbol of our Judeo-Christian civilisation’s origin. Out of it has flowed individual freedom, a culture of tolerance and decency, science, technology, capitalism and prosperity. Nothing matches it — except in the inverse, the refusal to recognise the city as Israel’s rightful capital

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If the Liberal Party is to save itself, much less the nation, it must not shirk the challenge of pushing back against the progressive zeitgeist. Ignoring the values of the rank-and-file who join the branches, man the polling booths, and who donate and raise money is a certain recipe for casting the party into the abyss

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‘Islam is dressed up as a religion but is in reality a totalitarian ideology. It wants to dominate and is unwilling to integrate and assimilate. There is not a single country where Islam is dominant that is truly free … We will never apologize for being free men, we will never bow for the combined forces of Mecca and the Left.’

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Temperance preachers of old were known to parade shambling drunks as living examples of Demon Rum’s perils. The abysmal failure of the Garden State’s alleged conservatives makes them a similar case study. Drink deeply from the Labor cup, be agreeable in an ABC-friendly sort of way, and voters won’t be able to tell the difference

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As the Liberal Party sinks into its morass of feckless principle and Turnbullian intrigue I have come to accept that you will soon occupy The Lodge. Fair enough, that’s democracy. But I implore you not to change your stated policy on franking credits. How can I plan to cope with your intended injustice if you keep changing it?

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No doubt it is toxic masculinity which blinds men — horrible, icky, beastly, bullying men especially — to the inspirational qualities of fashionable female footwear and, on a less upbeat note, their place in folk tales, defections and a 2012 Canberra race riot. Julie Bishop knows better

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The latest fatal helicopter crash in the Northern Territory raises serious questions about the use of low-lead aviation fuel, mandated for environmental reasons, and its part in the premature ageing and failure of engine parts. In this case my interest goes beyond the technical: the pilot was a member of my extended family

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When even a Labor-leaning economic pundit can see that now, with a property downturn evident, is not the time to start tampering with investment-property tax laws, it should be a no-brainer for the Coalition to go on the offensive. Another ‘should be’, alas

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Apologists and rationalisers, who constitute almost all of the political and media class, prefer to keep the focus on ISIS as the model of ‘bad Islam’, rather than the broader creed of 1.8 billion from which the seeds of mayhem are scattered. Don’t they ever wonder at the difficulty of naming a Muslim-majority society which boasts internal harmony and doesn’t trouble its neighbours?

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Stunned, reeling, humiliated and rejected, the Liberal Party’s leading lights have been quick to attribute Saturday’s defeat to their Canberra colleagues’ dumping of Malcolm Turnbull. Quadrant Online readers are invited to endorse or dispute that view in our comments thread

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