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1 month 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 | Augusto Zimmermann |Gabriël Moens |Tony Abbott |Matt Ridley
Say you write of the Koran's admonition that apostates must be killed. Well the new 'hate speech' laws might put you in jailFeb 19 202512 minsFailure can be more instructive than success, thus does Liz Truss' memoir chart how government can go off the railsFeb 19 20259 minsThe great thing about science is that it’s self-correcting.
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2 months ago | 
quadrant.org.au | Liz Truss |Tony Abbott |Matt Ridley |Kevin Myers
Failure can be more instructive than success, thus does Liz Truss' memoir chart how government can go off the railsFeb 19 20259 minsThe great thing about science is that it’s self-correcting.
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2 months ago | 
quadrant.org.au | Matt Ridley |Augusto Zimmermann |Gabriël Moens |Tony Abbott
Say you write of the Koran's admonition that apostates must be killed. Well the new 'hate speech' laws might put you in jailFeb 19 202512 minsFailure can be more instructive than success, thus does Liz Truss' memoir chart how government can go off the railsFeb 19 20259 minsThe great thing about science is that it’s self-correcting. The good drives out the bad -- or so I used to thinkFeb 19 202529 minsFor much of my life I have been a science writer.
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2 months ago | 
quadrant.org.au | Matt Ridley |Tony Abbott |Kevin Myers |David King
Failure can be more instructive than success, thus does Liz Truss' memoir chart how government can go off the railsFeb 19 20259 minsThe great thing about science is that it’s self-correcting. The good drives out the bad -- or so I used to thinkFeb 19 202529 minsIreland is being Balkanised by immigration and the purblind stupidity, smugness and wilful ignorance of its media and political classesFeb 18 202515 minsFor much of my life I have been a science writer.
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
quadrant.org.au | John Mikkelsen |Peter SMith |Peter Smith |Stephen Holt |Tony Abbott
With so many new issues confronting Australia and the world every day, many would sooner forget the early Covid years and massive over-reach of vaccine mandates, lockdowns, mental health problems, resulting suicides and business closures, the legacy of which continue to this day.
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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.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Tony Abbott
Whatever this election’s ultimate result, it won’t be improved by defeatism and declinism about the Conservative Party and about Britain itself. Sure, it’s a government that has been in office for several terms, had five prime ministers, disappointed its strongest supporters and sometimes seemed a pallid version of the other side; but politics is a binary choice, often between bad and worse, and there’s also an opposition, promising to be a safe change but bound to let voters down.
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Jul 11, 2023 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Tony Abbott
What’s gone wrong with centre-Right politics: is it our leaders, our beliefs, or has the world changed? The truth is that it’s a bit of each, but that doesn’t mean we should lose hope. First it is worth making the contrast between past and present. Consider the Thatcher, Reagan and Howard governments. Each had a fundamental outcome that they were determined to achieve, as well as a clear programme to bring it about and a moral purpose to what they were trying to do.
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Jan 23, 2023 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Tony Abbott
It is easy to be so consumed by day-to-day international events that you miss a major development. Some days ago, one such development occurred. A treaty, signed at the Tower of London, allowing British forces to be stationed in Japan, and vice-versa, marks a new phase in the re-emergence of Global Britain. This complements the growing participation of both Britain and Japan in the big multinational military exercises, Operations Talisman Sabre and Pitch Black, now held biannually in Australia.
