Books
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In the hands of authors Ross Fitzgerald & Ian McFadyen, Grafton Everest's latest adventure -- the ninth in the much loved series -- is a device for exposing the absurdities and unintended consequences of wrong-headed NGOs, disingenuous environmentalists and crony capitalism
July 7, 2024
9 mins
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With most conservative parties split between populist and establishment wings, […]
June 22, 2024
9 mins
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Those remaining in the Anglican community face compromises that look like desperate attempts to conceal contradictions. The Archbishop of Canterbury, for instance, insists in one breath that the position on same-sex marriage is unchanged, in the next relates his 'extreme' joy' that those in them can now receive God’s blessing.
June 13, 2024
8 mins
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Born at the peak of the Roman empire, Christianity quickly […]
May 28, 2024
8 mins
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The phrase “alliterative poetry” immediately connotes archaism, and a literary […]
May 28, 2024
7 mins
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Is there any point in being a satirist in the […]
May 28, 2024
9 mins
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With most conservative parties split between populist and establishment wings, […]
May 28, 2024
9 mins
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Ron Boswell, my former parliamentary colleague, has produced a superb instruction manual for anyone wanting to make a mark on our public life. His prescription is simple enough: have strong principles, be a good listener; be largely indifferent to recognition or reward, and work assiduously for the people you’re pledged to represent
May 21, 2024
8 mins
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It is more than a little alarming that, sooner or later, the preservation of Western civilisation will be in the care of a damaged generation. As examined by Jonathan Haidt and Abigail Shrier in two new and disquieting books, there is much in that thought to keep one awake at night
May 8, 2024
11 mins
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The fact that Stephen Edgar writes accentual syllabic verse, […]
April 29, 2024
12 mins
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As successive small Australian poetry publishers -- has there ever been any other kind? -- go out of business, new ones spring up to replace them. Four new volumes of Australian verse testify that such optimism, so often and ultimately dashed, can and does produce works of lasting worth
April 18, 2024
9 mins
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The ousted Labor leader noted in his 1973 memoirs that the party had passed 'for the time being from the traditional control by the working class … to quasi trade union-cum white-collar-professional control'. Some 50 years on, the accuracy of that observation is beyond dispute. Also clear is that Labor will never again resemble its former self, its aims and purpose ever more abstracted in this era of woke
April 17, 2024
7 mins