Quadrant readers have already encountered the second part of Keith Windschuttle's monthly column, published in advance at Online under the headline 'The Commissioner and the Choir Boy'. The full column has been removed from our paywall and its update on the money transferred by Cardinal Becciu to Australia makes equally interesting reading

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The obits for Melbourne University's Stuart Macintyre, dead at 74, will be replete with paeans for his role in shaping the history curriculum taught in Australian schools. Less noted, and certainly not critically, will be his Marxist adherence to the class struggle, his slight academic achievements and, as Keith Windschuttle noted in 2008, his shameful and unseemly defenestration of Geoffrey Blainey. One normally shouldn't speak ill of the dead, but in this instance it is unavoidable

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The connection between George Pell’s accuser, Witness J, and Victoria's political sewage pit came in June 2019, when former Victoria Police commissioner Simon Overland, in his latest position as Whittlesea Council's CEO, found a job for the accuser whose improbable account of what didn't happen in a cathedral sacristy sent an innocent man to prison

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Sir Joseph Banks lobbied without success to see the Union Jack planted permanently at Botany Bay. Then, suddenly in August 1786, intelligence indirectly obtained from American naval hero John Paul Jones saw all reservations cast aside and Arthur Phillip's hastily assembled First Fleet dispatched in a mad scramble to beat the French to other side of the world. It was a close run thing

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Among the grants awarded to Sydney University's Annamarie Jagose is one to study 'Real sex in the cinema', what most would call pornography. This is the expertise of the person Vice-Chancellor Mark Scott -- yes, that Mark Scott -- elevated to the university’s hierarchy and who has since embroiled him in unpleasant and embarrassing clashes with students and staff

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In Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and the ACT, between 40 per cent and 60 per cent of Aboriginal adults claim to be descended from the Stolen Generations. The fact that courts have long found otherwise appears to be of no account whatsoever in Canberra, where $600 million has just been earmarked to alleviate 'inter­generational trauma'

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Stories of corruption in high places have always been a good drawcard for readers of the news media and it is no surprise that many journalists have a strong appetite for such fare. And because such corruption is usually well covered up, a form of journalistic investigation has emerged to expose it, in which reporters […]

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Many Australian journalists draw their inspiration from Woodward and Bernstein, regarding the bringing down of the high and powerful as the path to glory. The difference is the Washington Post duo were strictly supervised. At the ABC, as Louise Milligan's attempts to ruin three prominent men demonstrate, evidentiary standards are low and editorial oversight conspicuous in its absence

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When little else in the world makes sense, history is the defining discipline. It carries extraordinarily important lessons for us and the future that we seek to shape. It can demolish prejudice. It is a reminder that there are hard decisions that have to be made, and the importance of making them and not shying […]

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The 2021 ACARA curriculum is far worse than you can imagine, reading like a wish-list straight from the Green Left Weekly. It endorses every one of the major claims currently being made by left-wing climate warriors, LGBTI advocates and indigenous activists. In fact, it is not a curriculum that teaches history at all. It is an exercise in the indoctrination of identity politics.

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