Quadrant readers knew the one-time head of Melbourne University Press, who passed away in 2015 at the age of 92, for his columns, mellifluous prose and erudite wit. Many light-fingered former Melbourne University students and staff harbour less cheerful memories. With MUP once again in the headlines, here a reminder of a steward who not only eschewed trash but also turned a profit

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What I do not understand is Venezuelans voting for the very policies which subsequently devastated their country. What I understand even less are the polls indicating Australian voters are buying Bill Shorten's Chavez-lite policies and class-war rhetoric

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Perish the thought of how those who delight in being annually miffed about Australia Day might have fared under the French, Dutch or the conquistadors' whips. Instead, and for the better, we were graced with British justice and institutions, from suffrage to cricket

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"What we shouldn’t be doing … is enshrining a general right to freedom of religion. Because a general right, unlike specific practical protections, will end up not being what the parliament intends it to be. But it will end up being what judges say it is"

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Until she spoke out against the plague of Jew hatred that has infected the British Labor Party of Jeremy Corbyn, Channel 4 game show hostess Rachel Riley was known chiefly for high heels and short skirts. Now, as detailed in a recent address, she is a designated target of the Left

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The heroes of our nationhood were not resistance leaders or freedom fighters, but politicians and statesmen, most now forgotten or only half-remembered. Their creation is an achievement worth celebrating

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Floundering, blind and deaf are our doctors and nurses. Each is concerned with finding and consolidating their own niche, finding somewhere safe where they will not be trampled upon, and resisting any moves by anyone who tries to direct their attention to the presence of the health system's elephantine deficiencies

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Sir Hughie Edwards arrived to assume the governership of Western Australia as the nation's most decorated war hero, his socialite wife a presumed adornment to his term. As Perth soon discovered, the Queen's representative was an alcoholic, his spouse no better and a Jew-hater to boot. To say their term didn't go well would be an understatement

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Examine each of the beliefs of progressives. Translated into policy and action, none will improve the lot of the developed and civilised Western world. Most will end in suffering and tears. Progressives truly are the high priests of denialism

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Blocks and finger-painting, that's what kindergarten was about, but no longer. Today, even before your children have reached primary school, there's a good chance they have been immersed in the Left's catechism of injustice and persecution against Aborigines

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