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We are encouraged to rely more and more on government officials to do for us what we could equally well do for ourselves—and, maybe more importantly, not to do what might help us solve our own problems.
Sep 08 2024
10 mins
If we imagine a metric called the Pinocchio Scale, which measures the number of lies told by a politician as a percentage of his or her overall public statements, our current prime minister (for want of a better description), Airbus Albo, has moved well into uncharted territory.
Sep 06 2024
5 mins
50 Reasons Why Normies Should Vote ‘No’
Unless Anthony Albanese, taking note of the rapidly declining support for the Voice, decides to cut his losses by postponing the referendum, Australians will soon be asked to authorise a pointedly unexplained addition to the Constitution that opens a host of possibilities, none of them good.
That’s one key reason to oppose the Voice. Here are 50 more:
1/ Because you still can
2/ Because you’re sick and tired of woke
3/ Because BHP shouldn’t have opinion on anything except digging stuff out of holes
4/ Because Wesfarmers has no business giving $2 million of shareholder cash to the Yes camp
5/ Because every Yes-backing sporting code in the country has been bought with grants and handouts
6/ Because Albanese & Co can’t or won’t explain what they have in mind.
7/ Because you don’t approve of Melbourne being renamed Narrm
8/ Because, sooner or later, the High Court will get involved
9/ Because the High Court has been known to indulge in judicial ratbaggery
10/ Because Australians…
Madam: Archbishop Fisher (July-August 2024) does not resist the attacks on his church by the political, social or scientific atheists and those who insist on not being told what to do.
Aug 29 2024
6 mins
To claim Aborigines have the world's oldest continuous culture is to misunderstand the meaning of culture, which continuously changes over time and location. For a culture not to change over time would be a reproach and certainly not a cause for celebration, for it would indicate that there had been no capacity to adapt. Clearly this has not been the case
Aug 20 2024
23 mins
A friend and longtime supporter of Quadrant, Clive James sent us a poem in 2010, which we published in our December issue. Like the Taronga Park Aquarium he recalls in its 'mocked-up sandstone cave' it's not to be forgotten
Aug 16 2024
2 mins
