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3 weeks ago | 
quadrant.org.au | Barry Spurr |Roger Franklin |Peter O'Brien
A Tree of Words An acacia or eucalypt, I can’t […]Mar 29 20251 minsThe literal-minded obsession with laity participation and a dumbed-down misunderstanding of what people are capable of appreciating have had a destructive impactMar 29 202515 minsLegacy media is billing the Opposition leader as a nasty clone of the US President, who at the same time is supposedly turning into Xi. One thing, though, is certain.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
quadrant.org.au | Roger Franklin |Phil Shannon |Peter O'Brien
Peter O’Brien misses an important point about the Australian War Memorial. It is not meant to celebrate an airbrushed, ‘Boy’s Own adventure. It is to remind us of the true cost of warJan 18 20255 minsIs it a good thing for women to be playing traditional men’s sports at elite and community levels?
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
quadrant.org.au | Phil Shannon |Peter Purcell |Peter O'Brien |Roger Underwood
Is it a good thing for women to be playing traditional men’s sports at elite and community levels? No argument, but fame and wide appeal will always be genderedJan 17 20255 minsReproduced here without editing or comment, Judge Nola Karapanagiotidis' sentencing of a biological man convicted of heinous offences against 'her' own daughterJan 17 202542 minsAustralians are telling pollsters we are very happy with Australia Day just as it is.
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Dec 29, 2024 | 
quadrant.org.au | Gavin Silbert |Tony Thomas |Alister Henskens |Peter O'Brien
Young lawyers are led to believe courts are fair and dispense untainted justice.
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Dec 26, 2024 | 
quadrant.org.au | Peter O'Brien
That Angus Campbell, ex-head of the ADF, lends his name to the works of art garlanded by the Australian War Memorial beggars belief, as do the artworks themselvesDec 27 20246 minsIt strikes me there is something incongruous about the Clive James’ preference for Powell over Joyce. He seemed to be comparing chalk and cheeseDec 26 202419 minsDon't be tempted to spoil the family's Christmas gathering by setting straight some baby Bolshevik.
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Dec 23, 2024 | 
quadrant.org.au | Peter O'Brien
Islam's apologists jumped on early reports the Saudi doctor behind the Magdeburg mass murder is actually a hater of Muslims. How peculiar he didn't target a mosqueDec 24 20243 minsInstant celebrity Lily Phillips, who recently had sex with 100 men, is selling not only her body but her soul. Is this what our tawdry age has come to?
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
quadrant.org.au | Peter O'Brien
Raygun's rise tells us something about modern Australia. Ineptitude and the utter failure of performance to match potential are no barriers to personal successDec 20 20249 minsIt'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 minsYou knew it would happen.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Peter O'Brien
Memory can be a fickle friend. Vital details, once secure in the mind, tend to disappear down the memory hole as you advance in years. But on the upside, when it comes to the broad sweep of your experience, it tends to reinforce the positive aspects of your life and diminish the negative.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
quadrant.org.au | Mark Durie |Rebecca Weisser |Peter O'Brien |David Jones
estern nations are facing what has been called an “epidemic” […]Dec 02 202420 minsIt was Trump, not his preening critics, who observed, 'If we don’t have free speech, we don’t have a free country'Dec 01 20248 minsThe Greens provocateur slags the late Queen and Pauline Hanson responds in kind. Guess who's in troubleDec 01 20245 minsWestern nations are facing what has been called an “epidemic” of forced marriages of their young Muslim women.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Peter O'Brien
Peter O'Brien on 60 Minutes Australia: The Janine Balding
Case
This month, we're turning up the volume on justice.
