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We are encouraged to rely more and more on government officials to do for us what we could equally well do for ourselves—and, maybe more importantly, not to do what might help us solve our own problems.
Sep 08 2024
10 mins
If we imagine a metric called the Pinocchio Scale, which measures the number of lies told by a politician as a percentage of his or her overall public statements, our current prime minister (for want of a better description), Airbus Albo, has moved well into uncharted territory.
Sep 06 2024
5 mins
Andrews gets a Gong. Now Botulism Wants One Too
So let me get this right. In awarding Daniel Andrews the Companion of the Order of Australia, this is what the Federal Labor government considers “eminent service to the people and parliament of Victoria, to public health, to policy and regulatory reform, and to infrastructure development”:
Hotel Quarantine: Daniel Andrew’s COVID policy directly led to the death of 700 Victorians and plunged Victoria into long, ruinous lockdowns. A policy that no one in his Labor government could remember anything about during a public inquiry.
Big Build: A government program so inept that it is costing Victorians $27 billion dollars to build a 10-km road; and has saddled Victoria with shocking debt of $156.2 billion and rising. Money that it is now taken out of hospital funding, schools funding and social services like mental health support and counselling.
Reduction of private enterprise: Victoria was the only state in Australia to see the total number of registered businesses reduce last year…
Madam: Archbishop Fisher (July-August 2024) does not resist the attacks on his church by the political, social or scientific atheists and those who insist on not being told what to do.
Aug 29 2024
6 mins
To claim Aborigines have the world's oldest continuous culture is to misunderstand the meaning of culture, which continuously changes over time and location. For a culture not to change over time would be a reproach and certainly not a cause for celebration, for it would indicate that there had been no capacity to adapt. Clearly this has not been the case
Aug 20 2024
23 mins
A friend and longtime supporter of Quadrant, Clive James sent us a poem in 2010, which we published in our December issue. Like the Taronga Park Aquarium he recalls in its 'mocked-up sandstone cave' it's not to be forgotten
Aug 16 2024
2 mins
