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Taking the Wrong Course

Dec 28, 2024 | quadrant.org.au | Timothy Cootes |Roger Franklin |Raymond Burns |Gary Johns

Studying International Relations -- wokeness, Western masochism, antipathy for one’s nation -- is no conservative’s idea of a good time Jan 10 2025 9 mins Best of the Web: January 9, 2025: ♦ Joe Biden […] Jan 09 2025 1 mins Putting left-wing identitarians in charge of literary prizes is a good way to turn them into cesspools of cronyism and bias Jan 09 2025 14 mins Should any younger Quadrant readers be considering higher education, they might want to pause before accepting an offer from the...
Musk Lifts Off - Quadrant

Dec 28, 2024 | quadrant.org.au | Graham L. Bradley |Timothy Cootes |Roger Franklin |Gary Johns

For all his quirks, this modern Edison is, above all, a disrupter, a man in a hurry to remake human destiny and his nation Jan 10 2025 7 mins Studying International Relations -- wokeness, Western masochism, antipathy for one’s nation -- is no conservative’s idea of a good time Jan 10 2025 9 mins Best of the Web: January 10, 2025: Allison Pearson on […] Jan 09 2025 2 mins If Hillbilly Elegy was compulsory reading for observers of American politics wanting to understand Trump’s first...
He pushed me first, bro

Sep 25, 2024 | spectator.com.au | Gary Johns

The timing is perfect: a book recalling the 2005 Cronulla riots by the key decision-makers at the time, New South Wales Police Minister Carl Scully and Police Commander Assistant Commissioner Mark Goodwin. The Albanese government’s decision to allow potentially pro-Hamas Palestinians to enter Australia has close parallels to the Fraser government’s appalling ‘Lebanese concession’, allowing ‘unskilled, illiterate’ Lebanese Muslims of ‘questionable character’ to seek asylum in Australia.
Bryan Magee and the Meaning of Life

Sep 19, 2024 | quadrant.org.au | Roger Franklin |Mervyn F. Bendle |Mark Powell |Gary Johns

The realisation hit Bryan Magee like a wrecking ball. At one level he had everything: “good health, energy, adventurous life, rewarding friendships, exhilarating love affairs, success in my work, exciting travel, the sustained nourishment of music, theatre, reading”, but now it was all being “overwhelmed, almost literally so, by a sense of mortality”. (Bryan Magee, Confessions of a Philosopher, 1997. All references are to this book unless otherwise stated.)And this was no ordinary fear.
Left, Blight, Left in Melbourne

Sep 13, 2024 | quadrant.org.au | Nick McGowan |Tony Abbott |Tony Thomas |Gary Johns

We Melburnians have had a tough week – thanks to the decision of the Greens and their supporters to put a beast of a protest in the city to oppose the Land Forces expo at the Melbourne Convention Centre. The protest has reignited the idea that something must be done to curb their frequency and intensity. We accepted being the lockdown capital of the world – but protest capital? No, that’s a step too far.
Donald Trump, Unpalatable but Necessary

Sep 8, 2024 | quadrant.org.au | Peter SMith |Peter Smith |Luke Powell |Gary Johns

The Republican presidential contender is an acquired taste. Given the alternative, it's a taste persnickety conservatives should make the effort to acquireSep 09 20244 minsSep 09 20246 minsThe proportions of Aboriginal children and young people placed in a relative or kin placement or with an Aboriginal foster carer have decreased, and the proportion of Aboriginal children who were reunified with their families has declined.
Modern Myths of Mother Nature

Sep 8, 2024 | quadrant.org.au | Luke Powell |Gary Johns |John O’Sullivan |Catherine Brendt

Tanya Plibersek’s eleventh-hour decision to ban a tailings dam essential for the operation of a proposed billion-dollar gold-mine project near Orange will cost NSW dear: $200 million in annual royalties, around 580 construction jobs and 290 permanent operational positions.
‘We Looked and There Was No Safe Family’

Sep 8, 2024 | quadrant.org.au | Gary Johns |John O’Sullivan |Peter O'Brien |Peter SMith |Peter Smith

To avoid allegations of creating another “stolen generation”, child protection workers are expected to place Aboriginal children with Aboriginal families and have the process managed by Aboriginal organisations. Despite decades of trying, these procedures have not solved the problem.
Welcome to Borroloola land

Aug 7, 2024 | spectator.com.au | Gary Johns

Every failure in Aboriginal affairs has its reward – the opportunity to offer a shiny new bauble to public servants and a journalistic cheer squad. Last weekend, and following the failure of the Voice referendum, there were three baubles – naming an Indigenous state, renewable self-determination, and a new economic development plan.
The coming populist revolt

Jul 10, 2024 | spectator.com.au | Gary Johns

Populism occurs when the masses revolt against the elites’ view of the world. Elite opinion does not often deal directly with popular opinion, that is, with the people who have to pay for elite opinion. When elites get it wrong, the masses revolt through the ballot; the Voice referendum is a good example.