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5 days ago | 
spectator.com.au | Alexander Voltz
Kevin Rudd was left barking up the wrong tree this week when he collared a tax to Bluey’s neck. ‘I don’t think we want to see a tax on Bluey. What happens if we all lock down our countries with competitive, punitive arrangements against each other’s movies? Movies are the way in which we kind of understand each other more.
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2 weeks ago | 
spectator.com.au | Alexander Voltz
Let us be quite clear on this matter: it is irrelevant whether the Voice to Parliament is, to reference the recent suggestion by both Penny Wong and The Australian, ‘inevitable’. The Voice has already accomplished all that it set out to achieve. I have repeatedly argued, and shall do so again now, that the 2023 referendum was but in aid of Labor’s ultimate objective: the rewriting of the Australian Constitution to transform this country into a republic.
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2 weeks ago | 
quadrant.org.au | Alexander Voltz
Authenticity is not an attainable state, as is quality, but a distant ideal for which artists must ever reachApr 28 202510 minsThe Australia Council, established to bring art to the people, ignored the fact that the people already had artApr 28 202510 minsThe homages once heard so frequently are today no less grotesque than the knighthood bestowed on Jimmy SavileApr 28 202515 minsIn September 1935, Herbert Howells was holidaying with his family in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire.
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1 month ago | 
spectator.com.au | Alexander Voltz
Yesterday evening, Keith Windschuttle died after a prolonged battle with ill health. The legacy of a creative is best expressed through his life’s creations. Keith was a prolific author and publisher of quality literature. His founding and stewardship of Macleay Press produced several gems, including titles by James Franklin and Sir David Smith.
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1 month ago | 
quadrant.org.au | Michael Giffin |Alexander Voltz |Jane Petkovic |Mark Durie
Progressive Christianity's problem is the desire to find in scripture a defence of positions and belief at odds with the Bible itselfMar 30 202515 minsrrollyn Wallen CBE has served as Master of the King’s […]Mar 30 202516 minsThree women have created a book that in its content, omissions, graphics, and approach is likely to negatively impact girls and young womenMar 30 202510 minsTo Heraclitus, life is flux, change is the only constant.
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1 month ago | 
quadrant.org.au | Jane Petkovic |Michael Giffin |Alexander Voltz |Michael Lawriwsky
Progressive Christianity's problem is a desire to find in scripture a defence of positions and belief at odds with the Bible itselfMar 30 202515 minsrrollyn Wallen CBE has served as Master of the King’s […]Mar 30 202516 minsThree women have created a book that in its content, omissions, graphics, and approach is likely to negatively impact girls and young womenMar 30 202510 minsIn 2023, a children’s book by two Australian authors became the object of adult ire.
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1 month ago | 
quadrant.org.au | Alexander Voltz
It would be good to see Albo & Co shown the door. It would even better if the Coalition stood for somethingApr 06 20254 minsThe republication of the English and Australian Cookery Book deserves praise, which this hungry hagiographer is happy to provideApr 06 202510 minsThe best-selling author's new biography of the Gallipoli hero is a mess of errors, omissions, bias and invention Apr 05 202533 minsErrollyn Wallen CBE has served as Master of the King’s Music since July 2024.
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2 months ago | 
quadrant.org.au | Mark McGinness |Alexander Voltz |Barry Spurr |Tony Abbott
Young Warwick Fairfax astonished James by declaring his intention to take control. It did not end wellFeb 25 202518 minsIf change begins at the ballot box, this federal election marks the beginning of Quadrant Music’s campaign for cultureFeb 25 202512 minshe setting of liturgical language to music, for singing by […]Feb 25 202515 minsIt is now eight years since the publisher, philanthropist and collector James Fairfax died.
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2 months ago | 
quadrant.org.au | Alexander Voltz |Barry Spurr |Malcolm Gillies
If change begins at the ballot box, this federal election marks the beginning of Quadrant Music’s campaign for cultureFeb 25 202512 minshe setting of liturgical language to music, for singing by […]Feb 25 202515 minsIn our three-level federation there is a continuing flux in how governments see their cultural and artistic rolesFeb 25 202510 minsAt the time of writing, the date of the federal election remains unknown.
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Feb 3, 2025 | 
quadrant.org.au | John Cameron |Alexander Voltz |Paul Grover
State government ads ask 'How well do you know fire?' If the government heeded its own question it would spend a lot more on fuel reductionFeb 04 202514 minsBeyond market conditions and ticket prices lurks a greater impediment to our nation’s cultural future: the dismal state of arts educationFeb 03 20254 minsPresident Omar Bongo of Gabon toured the factory and announced he would buy two Rollers.
