There is a danger in these post-modern days, when Western culture is under attack from within by the left, that the impact of importing people whose culture is inferior (by any measure) will be underrated, that ethnic politics and enclaves shape the broader democracy
Mrs Clinton is plainly a globalist like President Obama, Donald Trump an opponent—if not the best one. But this election will not decide the issue which of its nature pits most voters against the progressive elites. It’s your politics for the next century
One doesn’t need to believe in order to understand the principles of early Protestant political ideas on liberty, the role of the civil magistrate and civil society. Yet, without the Christian faith as a foundation, liberalism will not help us live well together
As someone who identifies as a leak-garlanded son of Wales, the Australian newspaper's Leak-garlanded editorial page caused me so much distress that only an apology (and a lavish financial settlement) will assuage my hurt feelings. Alas, I'm out of luck
If our Foreign Minister had a mind to do something of genuine value for her oppressed sisters, she might consider re-visiting Tehran on a bicycle while wearing leggings and a coat with writing on the back -- 'offences' that could see an Iranian woman punished, even executed
Our resident soothsayer has examined the entrails of the US presidential campaign, now in its final days, and laid out his prophecies. While some might seem highly unlikely, there can be no doubt the Clinton Foundation's coffers will swell mightily
As demonstrated by both Trump and Sanders, a key feature in the 2016 US election has been a populist narrative about how foreign governments and companies, in cahoots with political and institutional insiders, have wrought ruin upon the nation
The anti-nuclear movement had everything going for it, from copious funding and the support of international NGOs to sympathetic press coverage and parliamentary supporters. Yet its crusade petered out, laid low by bogus science and ardent, absolutist ratbaggery
From Quadrant's November edition, now on sale, the first excerpt of Keith Windschuttle's investigation of the Recognition movement, its motives and objectives: political autonomy, traditional law and values, and sovereignty over a separate state -- in effect, a nation within a nation
One-third of Australians, according to the latest poll, oppose Muslim immigration -- down on an earlier survey which put the figure at around fifty per cent. Whatever the actual number, it is heartening to note that good sense continues to defy the elites' favoured narrative
Arnold Toynbee, the deservedly famous British historian and philosopher, in his monumental A Study of …
A bill before the Victorian Parliament professes to put an end to discrimination, but the result will be nothing of the kind. What it would achieve is nothing less than the formal rejection of the idea that diverse views are integral to the conduct of a civil society
In his public deportment Marriner always gave the impression of being, dare one even use the phrase now, 'an English gentleman', such as, in conducting terms, the world has not seen since the palmy days of Sir Thomas Beecham
A fresh retinue of 'peers' is being sought to decide who gets how much of the many millions of taxpayer dollars it distributes every year. This is the same body that stripped Quadrant of its meagre funding, so why not apply and add a dash of diversity to the mix?
If we do not tell our young people about our heritage and how we have achieved it, they will not appreciate it. Worse, they may succumb to other theories, fashionable beliefs and new values which will in no way advance their welfare or that of the nation
They Marched in March -- the usual suspects in all their serried shades of anger and incoherence -- because, well, it would have made even less sense to bemoan the fact that Tony Abbott and the Coalition won an election last September by April-ing in April. Zeg is fearful of such antics' impact on the easily impressed.
At the University of Wollongong there is so much diversity to honour, especially when Christians are demanding all the attention with their mangers and tinsel, that staff have been sent a chirpy reminder that Christmas is about much more than the Messiah
Climate change is torching Australia, according to the likes of Tim Flannery and his fellow warmists at the Bureau of Meteorology. If only the money now spent on computer projections and big-ticket fire fighting gear could go toward fuel reduction
A New Zealand court has rejected the argument that one can claim asylum from the alleged ravages of climate change. For the plaintiff, it is back to teeming Kiribati, where the real problem is a booming population
A cash-strapped America no longer has the resources to continue as the world’s policeman, as its craven capitulation to Tehran makes clear. For Australia the message is chilling
The tourist learns a lesson One evening in London, at a Thames-side pub (the sky and calm …
The credibility problem with most of the so-called Golden Age of detective fiction is how the sleuth happens to be sailing down the Nile or travelling on the Orient Express when the murder takes place. In The Thin Man the relationships seem perfectly natural
There was political correctness when I was young. We stood in the cinema when the King’s image appeared, for example, and I have watched the shape and character of PC change over time. I didn’t much like it when I was young, and like it no more today
Europe's ascent largely revolved around control of the Mediterranean basin where Rome had built its domain. By dividing that sea into two antagonistic spheres, Islam broke its unifying power and gave Western competitiveness its chance
Those calling for a Muslim reformation are overlooking the consequences of the revolt that Martin Luther prompted against Rome. Were Islam to replicate that upheaval, as many seem to wish, the world would be convulsed for bloody centuries to come
When Peter Minter banned Quadrant's poets from his magazine's pages on the grounds that they had published in what he likened to a Nazi journal, the curious might have wondered just what sort of verse he actually favours. Here's a hint
Readers can form their own judgement as to whether this first-person account would count in Andrew Bolt’s challenge to Robert Manne to “name ten” Aborigines stolen purely for racial reasons
PM Stephen Harper has three election victories under his belt and, from a conservative point of view, not much to show for them. Being nice to political enemies is all very well and good, but it leaves your supporters less than impressed
If "Indigenous culture" is to be recognised in Australia's Constitution it is vital to understand what the term means. Rap songs and break dancing, perhaps?
If a slick video and the IPCC's latest inaccurate and untruthful arguments are the best it can do to demonstrate a dangerous warming problem, its advice should be ignored and funding withdrawn
If you missed backing the winner of last week's Melbourne Cup, here's one observer's hot tip to recoup that lost investment: Donald Trump on Tuesday, November 8
Wishful thinking? Perhaps, but also based on the pervasive presence of Trump '16 signs observed on a 1500-mile road trip that began last Tuesday in Fort Lauderdale and has now reached Gettysburg, en route to Washington DC and Election Day. The tally of signs so far, including several similar to those pictured above:
Hillary: 6 (yes, single digits)
Trump: 120+ (after losing count somewhere in North Carolina)
Mind you, in last Tuesday's big race, this punter's money was on Oceanographer.
The latest Betfair board can be reached via the link below.
-- roger franklin
Q: What do you call the news that a Federal Court judge has dismissed the 18C case against three Queensland University of Technology students?
A: A good start -- but only a start, as a close reading of the judgment makes clear.
Q: How might this pernicious law be best re-written?
A: Just like this:
Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press;
For the benefit of those with Australian journalism degrees and the anxious pantywaists now debating how to gently re-phrase 18C, that's the relevant section of the US First Amendment.
It seems to work well enough on the other side of the Pacific.
The QUT judgment can be read in full via the link below.
Australians are not being told the truth about the proposal for constitutional recognition of indigenous people. The goal of Aboriginal political activists today is to gain ‘sovereignty’ and create a black state, equivalent to the existing states. Its territory, comprising all land defined as native title, will soon amount to more than 60 per cent of the whole Australian continent. Constitutional recognition, if passed, would be its ‘launching pad’.
As Quadrant's Keith Windschuttle details in The Break-Up of Australia, recognition will not make our nation complete -- it will divide us permanently.
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