The striking thing about ABC Managing Director David Anderson's most recent turn before Senate Estimates was the absence of any direct involvement in his own newsrooms, the least you might expect of a man billed as 'editor-in chief'. Without genuine editorial supervision, it is no wonder the national broadcaster's reporting is a reeking, biased, error-prone mess

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In November's edition of Quadrant, our Michael Connor forensically dismantled Henry Reynolds' claim that Jeremy Bentham believed the failure to strike a treaty between the first white arrivals and Aborigines was 'an incurable flaw', one that continues to cast a shadow over modern Australia. How sadly predictable that the spurious claim would be amplified yet again in the pages of the Nine rags

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In what seems to be a developing Radio National ritual, Breakfast host Patricia Karvelas began her listeners' day with a guest's critique of Jacinta Nampijinpa Price. Last week it was bully boy Noel Pearson, this week Marcia Langton rambling through three minutes of the strangest radio you'll likely hear until next week's Bash Jacinta segment

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Ex-premier Ted Baillieu, who knows a thing or two about political failure, is saying it will be at least eight years, and possibly twelve, before his Liberals can harbour any realistic hope of regaining power in Victoria. Well, yes, his and Mastthew Guy's species of Liberals, but what of a party that actually stands for something and is prepared to fight for it?

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Quadrant Online reports from Washington on the latest developments in the GOP quest to take control of both houses -- a double triumph that, if they pull it off, stands to repudiate and reverse many of the Biden administrations initiatives. Bookmark the page and return for the latest updates

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So far this year, 39 Americans have been convicted of election interference involving 'fraudulent absentee ballots', 'false registrations', 'buying votes' and -- talk about chutzpah! --  bribing a Philadelphia judge to add hundreds of notional votes to Democratic candidates' tallies. Dismiss the deniers of widespread fraud. Cheating, like baseball, is the national pastime

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Here we are, the Democrats staring into the abyss, with nothing to boast about and less than a week to go. Nothing for it but to keep cranking up the hate, and if that means depicting Paul Pelosi's attacker, a drug-addled hippy nudist and all-round nut case as a typical Republican, so be it.

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Vladimir Putin is Donald Trump's puppetmaster. That was yesteryear's lie, relentlessly amplified in Australia by the ABC in particular. Stay tuned, for there are more and bigger lies to come, all to be parroted with unfaltering fidelity by mass media outlets that no longer quite seem to grasp the meaning of the word 'shame'.

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Abortion, nasty business. Best not to think too much about it. Their bodies themselves etc., and leave the girls to it. The comfort of evasion. The false refuge of choosing not to settle on a moral position. That's the way it was until one woman's tears told of anguish, regret and a crippling, hopeless longing

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The problem with boys, if you put credence in feminist thought and the teachers it influences, is that they are not girls. It's a perspective recently aired on Twitter by a US professor of journalism, who fears XY chromosomes make young lads natural alt.right recruits. The professor was soon taken memorably to task

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