Fourth Column
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Seventy-five years after the old empire became the new Commonwealth, there’s no more like-minded group than the CANZUK countries. Why not build on that affinity by making all trade between them tariff-free? Why not work towards mutual recognition of trade and professional qualifications?
August 25, 2024
9 mins
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Following the revelation in Quadrant (“Compensation and Aboriginal Corruption”, March […]
April 28, 2022
8 mins
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Leftists would no doubt get rid of Anzac Day if they could, which makes you wonder, since they’re in charge of just about everything, what fresh public holidays we would see. Dismissal Day, the feast of St Gough, is a certainty, the first on a long list of woke and certain inclusions
April 6, 2020
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Leftists, in my experience, are not the kind to be inconvenienced by principles, so we can expect them to stand ready with imaginative justifications for denying others the same exemptions they grant themselves. To observe one of the most current examples, visit the departure lounge at your local airport
March 20, 2020
8 mins
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The Workplace Gender Equality Agency has so assiduously promoted gender equality in its own workplace that its 'leadership team' of five is entirely female. To paraphrase George Orwell, all are equal in Equal Opportunities but some are more equal than others
December 13, 2019
7 mins
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How many older women, seduced by feminist anti-maleness in the Greer–Friedan years, ditched their husbands and are now sour and lonely? How many girls schooled in 'sexual politics' will find relations with men more contractual than loving? Has it occurred to the radical Sister Joans of this world that the secular leftism they promote is the sworn foe of the faith they profess?
September 21, 2019
8 mins
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There are many possible examples, but let me cite the recent and, for the Adani mine's opponents, the convenient use of black-throated finches to further stall development. The suggestion by lawfare's urgers and advocates that an entire species was at risk is a case of 'noble cause corruption' from beak to tail feathers
July 1, 2019
8 mins
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The construction boom which has led to a wealth of coins, arrow-heads, ritual amulets and weapons being unearthed -- and subsequently destroyed -- was largely prompted by the need to provide housing for the asylum seekers now pushing the crime-rate back towards, well, towards berserker levels.
May 12, 2019
7 mins
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The bottom line of politically correct thought on the matter of regulating the planet's long-term weather, especially the near-religious belief that we must collectively do something drastic right now to prevent climate change, is so full of holes that it brings the overall sanity of mankind into question
April 5, 2019
8 mins
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Just on fifty years ago a tsunami of change demolished the old-style no-frills classroom, banishing 'Harry Dale the Drover' and most other poetry. The New Left wanted it all gone, along with the much-loved Victorian Reader, lest children get the incorrect idea that Australia's past was not all massacres and imperialist oppression
January 29, 2019
8 mins
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People happy in their home life don’t beat each other up. Nor do most men need to be told to respect women. You have only to look around you to see that even after years of feminist abuse and contempt, gallantry is still on offer, for those normal, un-angry women who are prepared to accept it
October 8, 2018
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