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1 month ago | 
quadrant.org.au | Peter SMith |Peter Smith |Anne Henderson |Malcolm Gillies |James Allan
The charge that Trump is endangering constitutional norms is tendentious twaddle. Partisan judges are the real villainsMar 24 20256 minsDid Australia's then-PM fancy himself as Winston Churchill's replacement?
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1 month ago | 
quadrant.org.au | Roger Partridge |Daryl McCann |Phil Shannon |Peter SMith |Peter Smith
Like other modern autocrats, Trump maintains the outward form of institutions while gutting their independence Mar 20 2025 8 mins Long before Hollywood fell for recently deceased thug George Floyd, it was the US Left's domestic terrorists who captured its heart Mar 20 2025 16 mins The major parties' hasty 'reform' of campaign financing exclusively benefits - Surprise! Surprise! - those same major parties Mar 19 2025 5 mins Jim Allan’s spirited response to my Quadrant Online column, Trump’s...
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1 month ago | 
quadrant.org.au | Graham Pinn |Daryl McCann |Michael Cross |Peter SMith |Peter Smith
Apart from relying on bracket-creep to increase the tax haul, there is no obvious plan to drain the sea of red ink in which Australia flounders Mar 18 2025 6 mins Democrats fear that the machinery of the modern state can be used against them, just as they used it against Trump Mar 18 2025 16 mins Labour’s nip-and-tuck on the remaining peers ignores Blackstonian theory in the same way as did Oliver Cromwell’s Commons Mar 18 2025 12 mins Back in the 1950s, Tennessee Ernie Ford sang a miner’s...
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1 month ago | 
quadrant.org.au | Michael Connor |Roger Franklin |Peter SMith |Peter Smith |James Franklin
It would take only small changes to update Goebbels' vision for a pro-Hamas audience. The star on the money-lender's chest would not be a yellow one, but a blue Star of DavidMar 17 202512 minsEvery so often, a media organ of the Left reveals the gulf between itself and reality. Sunday's Age provides the latest exampleMar 16 20256 minsAbout Trump’s intended tariffs, what is objectionable about a level playing field?
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1 month ago | 
quadrant.org.au | Nicole James |Peter SMith |Peter Smith |Roger Partridge |Maxim Nikiforov
The protein bars favoured for the rest of us by the globalist elite isn’t chia, goji berries and smugness. No, the secret ingredient is insectsMar 10 20253 minsIt would be nice if plucky Ukraine could win the war, but that's impossible.
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1 month ago | 
quadrant.org.au | Nick Cater |Rachael Kohn |Peter SMith |Peter Smith |Tony Thomas |Tony and Jackie Thomas
Their ABC and Guardian are alarmed a conservative player, ADH, has entered Australia's regional TV market.
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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 | Timothy Cootes |Michael Connor |Mark Durie |Peter SMith |Peter Smith
Lately acknowledgments don’t even need to be verbalised. They can be strategically inserted to maximise annoyanceFeb 25 20259 minsImagine a camp survivor on a slow-moving ship with a man who may have sent her family to the ovensFeb 25 202512 minsAustralia’s leading religious persecution researcher, Elizabeth Kendal, has become the canary in the Anglican coalmineFeb 25 202514 minsI would like to begin by acknowledging Naracoorte Lucindale Council in South Australia.
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1 month ago | 
quadrant.org.au | Robert M. Clancy |Mark Durie |Roger Franklin |Peter SMith |Peter Smith
Australia’s leading religious persecution researcher, Elizabeth Kendal, has become the canary in the Anglican coalmineFeb 25 202514 minsThe weight of evidence demands a comprehensive reassessment of current policies.
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2 months ago | 
quadrant.org.au | Robert M. Clancy |Chris Keefer |Jeremy Sammut |Peter SMith |Peter Smith
We must recognise the folly of magical thinking when facing existential crises, whether we are enamoured with uranium, silicon or bothFeb 24 202515 minsIn 1899 the Age thundered that it was absurd to believe female suffrage would spawn 'masculinist' harpies and neglectful mothersFeb 24 202526 minsA Ukrainian victory was and remains impossible. Some unjust things have to be let go if the alternative is endless slaughterFeb 23 20255 minsThis is a tale of two elements: silicon and uranium.
