Peter Dutton survived the bloodbath election and is by far the most reliable guardian of Australia’s defence and security in the parliament and a direct contrast to the Labor Party’s former Shadow Defence Minister Richard Marles, whose political response to China’s previous provocations was appeasement. It will be the nation’s dire misfortune if the Liberal remnants do not elect him their leader

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Honiara, the seat of government of the Solomon Islands, is located on Guadalcanal and anyone with knowledge of the war in the Pacific in the 1940s can see how attractive it still would be to an Imperial China seeking to command the South Pacific. Anyone, to give him the benefit of the doubt, except Richard Marles, quite possibly Australia's next foreign minister

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In an intriguing article in the latest edition of the UK online publication The Article, Raymond Keene tries to explain Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as the product of a national trait that runs deep within the Russian psyche: an excess of paranoia. This echoes one of the common assumptions in the media today: Putin […]

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If the military adventurers of Russia and China are predicating their exploits on a perception of America's ongoing and inevitable decline they are badly mistaken. The only thing they have right is in appraising Barack Obama and Joe Biden as the two most timid presidents since Jimmy Carter. Someone should remind them of Ronald Reagan and how weak US presidents beget strong ones

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Things weren't going well with VicPol's push to 'get' George Pell. Witnesses were unreliable, mostly psychiatric cases or petty crims, leaving only the fantastic claims of a former choir boy to sustain a campaign aimed at bringing down a prince of the Church. The kid's story wasn't much but with the benefit of dubious methods, altered statements, a convenient incuriosity and strategic leaks, it was enough to put an innocent man behind bars

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The aim of most Aboriginal activists is anything but making the Constitution complete or the nation whole. Their ambition has long been to divide the nation between them and the rest of us. The recent attempt to burn down Old Parliament House, like the 2012 attack on Julia Gillard and Tony Abbot at The Lobby restaurant, is but the latest pursuit of that goal

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As soon as the Gillard government published its national school curriculum for history in 2012, John Howard entered the public debate to denounce it as “unbalanced, lacking in priorities and quite bizarre”. He accused it of marginalising the Judeo-Christian ethic and purging the British contribution to Australian history. Howard had good reason to be unhappy. […]

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Until he stood down for an investigation of his alleged abuse of a staffer with whom he was sharing a bed, Alan Tudge was that rarity among recent education ministers: someone up for the fight to see real history taught, not the national curriculum's compendium of Leftist memes, victimology and identity politics. Should his career be scuttled, the last hope for needed reform is a slim one indeed

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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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