Bella d’Abrera

No sex please, we’re progressive

3 March 2018 9:00 am

The Prime Minister’s recent puritanical edicts regarding relationships between ministers and their staff do not have roots in conservative Christianity,…

Don’t let the loony left spoil our party

26 January 2018 6:00 am

If you were a tourist attending the Australian Open, and you happened to have been perusing the papers in between…

How to win the West (back)

6 January 2018 9:00 am

In the last few months, the concept of ‘Western Civilisation’ has received significant coverage in the Australian press. In the…

How our teachers score top Marx

4 December 2017 7:16 am

At the end of last week, the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English convened in Melbourne for its annual…

The West’s unstoppable march toward ‘yes’

20 November 2017 1:04 pm

The outcome of the same-sex marriage poll is probably one of the least surprising things to have happened this year.…

Sex and gender in the British Empire, anyone?

28 October 2017 9:00 am

In 440 BC, the Greek historian Herodotus of Halicarnassus broke with tradition by collecting primary sources and then systematically and…

Teachers as activists

29 August 2017 11:33 am

Earlier this month, parents at Forestville Public School in the Northern beaches were invited to watch their children perform in…

Taxpayers notes

17 June 2017 9:00 am

Wasting millions on Humanities grants This month, a number of university departments across Australia will be filled with the sound…

Killing the university

2 June 2017 7:55 am

In March, the University of Melbourne Student Union ran an “intersectional and student-led workshop around the ways in which privilege and unconscious bias…

The Left aren’t just giving Australia Day the arse…

2 February 2017 7:08 am

Last Friday, the University of Western Australia Student Guild voted overwhelmingly in favour of changing the date of Australia Day and proposed to…

What’s so bad about January 26?

26 January 2017 8:26 am

This week, Warren Mundine proposed that Australia Day should be moved from January 26 to January 1, because the 26th…

A new breed of ‘historian’

7 January 2017 9:00 am

In the next few weeks, thousands of young Australians, having just finished 12 years of schooling, will be preparing themselves…

A new breed of ‘historian’

5 January 2017 3:00 pm

In the next few weeks, thousands of young Australians, having just finished 12 years of schooling, will be preparing themselves…

Blue Poles: sell this monument to madness

14 October 2016 3:26 pm

Jackson Pollock’s Blue Poles must be sold. Not because it’s a bad painting or because it fails the Australian test,…