Australia
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The paradox of hope and fear, allegiance and alienation, which tore through the Sixties has never been resolved and the tension remains, fundamentally shaping contemporary politics and culture, as we see around us every day
July 20, 2024
27 mins
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Sometimes we need an outsider to awaken a recognition of how blessed we are to call Australia home. More than 60 years ago, a young David Attenborough, still decades away from the catastrophist eco loon he would become, chronicled the lives of three Borroloola hermits. For me, it is a profoundly moving, indeed sublime, 30 minutes
June 1, 2024
7 mins
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It has sometimes been inferred that Albert Jacka’s politics were left-leaning. Whilst he never formally associated himself with a political party, nothing could be further from the truth. As with so many aspects of his later life, including his relationship with John Wren, myth raced far away ahead of fact
April 25, 2024
21 mins
The latest
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Anzac Day now stands alone on the calendar as a symbolic bastion of national identity, an identity the Left wants expunged not only to create further room for its ever-growing collection of ersatz days of pride and mourning, but also to create a cultural tabula rasa that can be re-engineered according to ideology and fashion
April 24, 2024
19 mins
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Australia's leading literary hoaxer continues to insist he is a bona fide Aborigine, hence entitled to all the indigenous-only grants, prizes, speaking gigs and perks he has pocketed during a lucrative career peddling shameless lies. He's at it again in his new book, this time flinging abuse at SBS and bulldust at everyone else
April 24, 2024
19 mins
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Many have been slow to recognise the war being waged by 'progressives' who control much of our bureaucracy, media and corporations. Their corrosive influence has elevated postmodernist absurdities about race, gender and animism over history, science and freedom of speech and movement
March 28, 2024
13 mins
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The first draft of post-war migrants from Britain and Europe adapted easily to Australian life. Then came the waves from Asia, for the most part also happy to integrate. Multiculturalism, we were assured by politicians and policymakers, was our future. This hope ended with the arrival of immigrants from Middle Eastern and Africa
February 21, 2024
8 mins
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Freedom of speech, thought, movement, religion and association are the pillars of any free society. They cannot be allowed to exist in name alone, but must be protected and strengthened, never suppressed or curtailed. This isn't the Australia being advanced by political, academic, corporate and sporting leaders and their institutions
January 31, 2024
7 mins
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What do you do when you’re a woke Council -- aren’t they all these days? -- but not quite woke enough to cancel the celebration of Australia's birthday altogether? This year my local council, Kiama, managed the almost perfect Clayton’s celebration, starting with a hard to reach location and heavy on the indigenous stuff
January 28, 2024
5 mins
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There’s really no point in attempting to placate those who hate you and the country we share, as Pat Cummins and other bandwagoneers imagine would happen were the date of Australia Day to change. If the Melbourne vandals who sawed off Captain Cook's statue at the ankles have brought such futility to wider attention, they may accidentally have done a bit of good
January 26, 2024
7 mins
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Don't be tempted to spoil the family's Christmas gathering by setting straight some baby Bolshevik nephew fresh from his university white studies indoctrination course. Instead, preserve the tranquil spirit of the season by settling down with a selection of Yuletide writing from Henry Lawson, Steele Rudd, Dave Pellowe, Roger Underwood, Vanessa de Largie and Lennie Lower
December 25, 2023
3 mins
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The council meeting was in the Melbourne municipality of Brimbank, but it might have been just about anywhere parish-pump potentates push the latest wokery while applying the gag to ratepayers who might object. That residents should sit mute as their betters hand down edicts -- in this case not to observe the nation's birthday day -- was not to be doubted, for three burly security guards stood ready to enforce the public gallery's silence
December 16, 2023
5 mins