Having seen the PR disaster of Julia Gillard’s open alliance with evidence-averse extremist Greens, Labor now hides its absolute dependence on that party of eco loons and arrogant, authoritarian arbiters of what can and cannot be said. Brace yourself, Australia. Should Shorten claim victory on Saturday night, what's coming won't be pretty

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“Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder,” wrote Arnold Toynbee. So do empires, and so do nations. Once again, Western civilisation is under mortal threat. This comes from a deepening schism between the rank-and-file and a cosmopolitan urban elite who have turned away from the source of all their wealth: free enterprise and private property under […]

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Opposed by Democrats, the media and a nefarious cabal of high government officials, this most unlikely president has implemented precisely what he promised on the stump. Despite the Deep State's worst efforts to bring him down, his record far exceeds even that of the great Ronald Reagan

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An historian of the left is on a fishing expedition to secure early access to any correspondence that passed between Yarralumla and the Palace during the period of crisis the Whitlam government inflicted on the nation in November 1975. What she won't find is a smoking gun

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Voices for and against re-writing the Constitution met recently at a Quadrant symposium in Sydney. As editor Keith Windschuttle put it, if the Commonwealth goes ahead with the referendum, it should fund and publicise a fully investigated, well-articulated case for voting No.

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The proceedings will begin with a committal hearing at which a magistrate determines if there is sufficient evidence to go to trial. But surely the first matter must be whether, because of leaks and the character assassination, the Cardinal enters court beneath a dark cloud of presumed guilt

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Of all the candidates jostling to become the next president of France, The National Front leader is the only one who does not belong to the established political class which has wrought so much damage. She is not perfect, that's true, but she does offer the hope of much-needed change

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Even when the police foil massacres before they can happen and the prosecution obtains convictions, sentences are likely to be far less than what a reasonable person would regard as appropriate. Terror has changed the way we live. It should also change the way we think about punishment

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If we do not tell our young people about our heritage and how we have achieved it, they will not appreciate it. Worse, they may succumb to other theories, fashionable beliefs and new values which will in no way advance their welfare or that of the nation

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The votes are not yet all counted and the scrape-home winners finalised, yet the talk is already of another poll -- perhaps even another double dissolution in as little as six months. In the meantime, depending on where the chips fall, it may well come to depend on the Governor-General

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