India's culture warriors tried but failed to make an issue of Pathaan, the hit Bollywood movie whose hero is a Muslim secret agent with a Pakistani girlfriend. Indian audiences are having none of it, seeming to accept the notion that a true Indian patriot can also be Muslim. Behold, the welcome rise of post-sectarian India

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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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"The secularists are wreckers and they are busy at work. Chaos is the end result. Chaos is the main characteristic of the way of life the secularist wreckers are imposing upon us, not liberation. Not health or peace of mind or communities united beneath and beyond their differences, but a tribal, fretful void, anxious, divided and regularly frightened"

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In August last year, Cardinal Pell addressed a dinner at Campion College, turning his mind to topics ranging from Tim Flannery's nonsense to China, Christianity's decline and much more. And there was this: 'The anti-Christian forces on both sides of politics will only be tamed when they are shown Christians have votes, which they will sometimes use'

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Like carrion birds screeching with delight at death's arrival, those who despised George Pell when alive threw restraint to the wind upon learning he had passed away in Rome. Most have likely never heard the term 'white martyr', but that is what their worst efforts made of the Cardinal -- a soul elevated by the bloodless sacrifice of rising above the torments they inflicted

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After the utter humiliation of the 7-0 decision by the nation's highest court, the Cardinal's persecutors and their media handmaidens savoured a much-needed morale boost when the royal commission's three redacted sections were released. Like so much about this witch hunt's travesties of law and journalism, they were kidding themselves. Today, with Pell dead, the usual suspects are peddling the same old lies

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E-voting machines with no paper records, openly partisan judges, critics jailed and their bank accounts seized -- that's what passes for 'democracy' in Brazil. None of those facts appear to trouble Australia's establishment media outlets, happy as they are regurgitate the received wisdom of favoured leftist sources,. And, inevitably, to make pretzels of logic in crying 'Trump! Trump! Trump!'

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Two proper nouns capture the rotten state of academia, the media generally and Their ABC in particular: Bruce Pascoe. While still filling his dilly bag with profits from Dark Emu and its spinoffs, the richly rewarded fauxboriginal scam artist is now urging Australians to save the planet by eating bandicoots and road kill

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There are no shades of grey in James Cameron's latest film because he wants his audiences to admire and love the oh-so-moral and decent Na’vi. His goal is make us despise ourselves and shoulder a burden of great shame that something so beautiful as the pristine world of the noble savage should ever have been violated

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The modern leftist is simply unrecognisable from his or her earlier self.  There is not the remotest resemblance, and a new ideology has emerged that is as much a travesty of the Left’s former core values as are neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism on the right. Meanwhile, each of the major parties has absorbed the core policies of the other side and their differences have shrunk very close to zero

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