This week Titanic Inc. welcomed People Smugglers Inc. into the Australian market and Australian waters. “Competition is good,” said Captain Rudd.
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Ross Douthat at the National Review (December 15) has reviewed Baz Luhrmann’s movie of last week – Australia: The overall effect is Little Black Sambo by way of Dances with Wolves: The condescension is intended to be favorable, but it’s condescension all the same. Professor Marcia Langton thinks differently.
Christmas is the time for looking back at the past year’s crop of books and choosing those which really stood out. Here is my personal selection of seven outstanding conservative non-fiction books published in Australia in 2008.
Terry McCrann: Rudd becomes the first prime minister to specifically set out to make Australia and Australians poorer. Significantly and permanently.
Education minister Julia Gillard could improve Australian education by forgetting about free Google machines and handing the kids copies of Mark Lopez’s The Little Black Schoolbook. While waiting for her to do so you might consider putting it on your own Christmas giving list.
Bill Muehlenberg blogs on Quadrant Online. Bill Muehlenberg wrote a brilliant book.
THE Mark Steyn has recorded a musical single for Christmas – A Marshmallow World. True.
The Australian Conservative goes places you don’t want to go and brings back treasures of Left stupidity, malice and lunacy. More importantly, it highlights the increasingly good comment to be found on Australia's dissident websites.
Or two Australias?
Peter Suderman: Good blockbusters always show audiences something new, and here, you can't fault it: It's the first movie to feature a hive of enviro-socialist alien nano-goo as its villain.
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