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Three crises
Commenting on Tony Abbott’s recent Perth speech in Quadrant, Keith Windschuttle identified three crises ‘which, taken together, represent a national…
Done to death
‘I’m bored!’ declares my companion while yet another naked body is hoisted – like Jesus – onto a makeshift cross.…
Lords a-dancing around Taqiyya
In Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe the British House of Lords, which ‘did nothing in particular, but did it very well’,…
Simone
Canberra, 2026 Simone entered the kitchen, hips swaying. ‘House goddess’ – this was her walking style. David had selected it,…
Point of no returnbull
The first duty of a leader is to keep the team together. This is Malcolm Turnbull’s biggest failure. The federal…
Verwoerd looking
The late Allister Sparks (1933-2016), veteran political reporter and book author, in the year before he died, reflected on some…
The flibbertigibbet Pope
After two Popes of towering intellectual and spiritual strength, it is difficult to become used to the fact that their…
The peaceful majority are irrelevant
Islam has exported its primitive, age-old and endless Sunni vs Shiite war of religious violence around the world, expanding it…
On a sensitive issue
In 1939 Paul Hasluck published ‘Our Southern Half Caste Natives and their condition.’ It was a pamphlet based on a…
A penance or a curse
If the UK general election had been a military battle it would be taught in Army staff colleges around the…
Business/Robbery etc
What’s left of Australia’s manufacturing industry needs to get its political hands dirty. If it really wants to survive it…
No pie in the sky
The authoritarian attitude of Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has been challenged by Robin Speed, the President of the Rule of…
Deadly self-censorship
Political correctness is eating itself. It’s in very real danger of destroying us, and will do so while apologising for…
True Islam
Each new Islamic terrorist atrocity is denounced by western leaders such as our Prime Minister as a ‘twisted’ or ‘perverted’…
Men of violence
Almost every other Aboriginal woman I know has been subject to family violence. It is in fact rare for an…
Reinventing energy policy
While the Liberal party tears itself apart over whether a Clean Energy Target as proposed by the Finkel report delivered…
Thou shalt not steal the truth
On 11 May 2017, under the auspices of Dialogue4Peace, I, together with Egyptian Copt, Nadia Ghali, were the main speakers…
Time bandits
‘Oooooo,’ coos the middle-aged box office lady with a wink, as I pick up my tickets to the World Science…
So it’s all about the, er, settlements then?
There has long been a conventional wisdom in some foreign policy circles that runs like this: solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict…
Excuse me, your cognitive dissonance is showing
On June 5 in Brighton, Melbourne, at a spot I have driven past countless times, there was a terrorist incident.…
Business/Robbery etc
The foxes have already been let into the henhouse. Led by the nastiest fox of all, the thuggish, serial law-breaker…
Down the social media rabbit hole
‘Whatever it is I’m against it,’ Groucho Marx sang in the 1932 film Horse Feathers. Bill Shorten’s Labor Party is…
It just ain’t so
Writing at Climate Etc., esteemed climate scientist Dr Judith Curry has urged greater attention to the uncertainties of scientific research…
Jihadism and the death cult
‘I don’t think we’re likely to get to know the Moslems very well, and I suspect that if we should,…
The wages of terror
The murderous, cowardly and unprovoked Muslim attacks on the West continue, the war for the Caliphate kills more innocents, but…
