For the moment, state and federal governments seem able to focus only on getting the better of COVID-19, the long-term havoc that will be the pandemic's legacy getting short shrift. With what may well be a full-blown depression looming, the urgency to reform education, energy policies, employment, taxation and much more has never been greater

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It's an Irish term which describes those who admire political violence, especially terrorism, but are too full of guile to state their admiration publicly. An example of the moment: those who floridly decry Donald Trump with terms like 'Nazi' and 'fascist' while saying nary a bad word against the leftist despotisms they instinctively admire

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Like a ghoul from the fever swamps of the Left's aggrieved imagination, unhinged theories about the dismissal of the Whitlam government continue to arise. First it was the CIA that martyred Saint Gough and, more recently, the bizarre notion that it was all the Queen's doing. Truth is, it's just not that complicated

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Sir Martin Charteris, known at school as ‘Inky’, chose the taunting motto: ‘Ecce Charta Mea’ -- in translation, ‘Look – my paper’. The great irony is that in finally obtaining Sir John Kerr's papers she had sought for so long, Professor Jenny Hocking found nothing in Sir Martin's responses but the rubble of her conspiratorial fantasies

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Unless Australia intends to follow the example of the Tokugawa shogunate and seal itself off from the world indefinitely, this readily transmitted virus will return with every easing of restrictions. Worse, as other nations emerge with degrees of herd immunity, those yet to see the infection run its course will remain vulnerable amid the wreckage of their economies

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Why are so many of our education, media and business elites totally unmoored from traditional belief and culture? The loss of civilisational confidence, I would suggest, obviates any need for the jackboot to enforce conformity with the new ethos

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The fact that the long-sought 'Palace Letters' are an empty vessel hasn't stopped the woman who posits the Queen being intimately involved in a conspiracy to martyr St Gough making a big noise about them. This tends to be the way of the Left: when there is nothing there, just shout louder that there is and wait for the partisan and gullible to join the chorus

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Far be it from me to say a positive word about Victoria's Daniel Andrews, but exactly how is he so different from any other political leader? Most are incompetent and all defer to blinkered public health officials because that is easier and safer than taking responsibility for their own decisions. And all keep lockdowns at the ready to appease the wrathful god of COVID-19

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Historian David Starkey has a worthwhile proposal: if immersion in the many grievances of identity politics represents an 'education' those who favour it should foot the bill. After infuriating rounds of correspondence with NSW bureaucrats, it is clear that only defunding can avoid another generation of brainwashed dolts

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Is it only a month ago that Victoria's Dear Leader was skiting about the success of his government's war on COVID-19, insisting the Garden State was 'the envy of the world'? That might still be true, but only if the rest of the world values gross mismanagement, inconsistency and an arrogant refusal to explain

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