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1 week ago | 
quadrant.org.au | Mervyn F. Bendle |Tony Thomas |Tony and Jackie Thomas |Penelope Nelson |Stephen Chavura
Activists purporting to be historians deny scholarly objectivity is even possible. In keith, these pseuds and poseurs met their matchApr 11 202510 minsNot content with astonishing old mates from his sporting days by calling them closet indigenous, he also reckons AFL great Leigh Matthews is a 'brother'Apr 11 202520 minsWhat happened on the Bounty was never a simple tale of villains and heroes.
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1 month ago | 
quadrant.org.au | Christopher Carr |Mervyn F. Bendle |Joe Dolce |Peter SMith |Peter Smith
We must recognise Putin's evil, and, however reluctantly, accept the horrible necessity of a war to the finishFeb 27 20254 minsThe Left's packaging of inter-related ideas is framed as ‘critical thinking’ – an oxymoron if ever there was oneFeb 27 202520 minsNeville Shute imagined the end of the world 68 years ago, spawning a novel, a movie and a remake.
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1 month ago | 
quadrant.org.au | Mervyn F. Bendle |Joe Dolce |John Dawson |Christopher Jolliffe
The Left's packaging of inter-related ideas is framed as ‘critical thinking’ – an oxymoron if ever there was oneFeb 27 202520 minsNeville Shute imagined the end of the world 68 years ago, spawning a novel, a movie and a remake.
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1 month ago | 
quadrant.org.au | Daryl McCann |Amy Brooke |Joanna Bell |Mervyn F. Bendle
I was recently reminded how gaining a little power can […] Feb 26 2025 9 mins Democrats fear that the machinery of the modern state can be used against them, just as they used it against Trump Feb 26 2025 16 mins A flight to Britain for treatment was cheaper than maintaining my pointless American health insurance plan Feb 26 2025 8 mins An incongruent combination of forces—a new Republican establishment, MAGA stalwarts, tech billionaires, blue-collar workers, libertarians of all political...
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2 months ago | 
quadrant.org.au | Christopher Heathcote |Mervyn F. Bendle |Patrick McCauley |Maxim Nikiforov
Sunshine and surrounding suburbs in Melbourne’s west will not be observing Australia Day in 2024. Residents learned this on 12 December at Brimbank Council’s last meeting for 2023. The council runs a sprawling municipality of over half a million souls, encompassing Deer Park, Sunshine, St Albans, Kealba, Taylors Lakes and historic Keilor. It was a packed meeting with extra chairs carried in for the many ratepayers who attended.
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2 months ago | 
quadrant.org.au | Mervyn F. Bendle |Patrick McCauley |Alison Bevege |Maxim Nikiforov
As most of us celebrate Australia, the ongoing and often publicly funded exercise in excrescent self-laceration continues without pause or regretJan 26 202521 mins"It’s a strange land, Australia / I am a stranger in it. / Five generations stateless. / I live in the fallen city of a failed state"Jan 26 20252 minsTo take a nation you must first destroy its culture and tear down its history.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
quadrant.org.au | Roger Franklin |Kevin Donnelly |Mervyn F. Bendle |Alan Moran
famous line in an Australian film almost three decades old […]Jan 22 20258 minsDutton & Co's challenge: recognise radical wokery is coming to an end and be forthright in giving voters at the next federal election an alternativeJan 22 20254 minsWill Trump realise what Ayn Rand's hero achieved in fiction -- a reassertion of the values and institutions upon which America's success was based?
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
quadrant.org.au | Mervyn F. Bendle
It's going to be especially difficult restoring our lucky country if we have to do it in the darkDec 19 20246 minsA primary lesson of Greek mythology is that 'mortal man must always look to his ending'. There is peril in trying to elevate oneself to the status of the godsDec 19 202413 minsIt is hard to find organ recordings from before about 1980 where the audio quality is not an active handicapDec 19 202415 minsDid Muhammad exist?
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
quadrant.org.au | Michael Lawriwsky |Mervyn F. Bendle |Jane Petkovic |Raymond Burns
There was a young cavalry officer, one Smyth, who seemed […]Oct 31 202416 minsimone Weil had had enough. The end loomed before her […]Oct 31 202420 minsPart 1, by Jane Petkovic y mother was a born […]Oct 31 202418 minsSimone Weil had had enough. The end loomed before her and she was seized by the compulsion to move towards it. It was August 1943 and the thirty-four-year-old French philosopher lay slumped in a sanatorium bed.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
quadrant.org.au | Michael Lawriwsky |Mervyn F. Bendle |Jane Petkovic |Raymond Burns
There was a young cavalry officer, one Smyth, who seemed […]Oct 31 202416 minsimone Weil had had enough. The end loomed before her […]Oct 31 202420 minsPart 1, by Jane Petkovic y mother was a born […]Oct 31 202418 minsPart 1, by Jane PetkovicMy mother was a born teacher. Educated at the academically-selective Sydney Girls’ High School, she matriculated to the University of Sydney.
