In the 'history' promoted by Jason Clare, missions, food depots and modern medicine are nothing less than acts of war
Mar 23 2026
16 mins
A Japanese university differs very much from an Australian one, not least because a major goal and function is socialisation
Mar 23 2026
15 mins
Reflexively not agreeing with whatever Trump does is not a strategy. It falls under the mental sickness of TDS
Mar 22 2026
4 mins
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s recent vow to 'replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism' is pure, unadulterated Plur1bus
Mar 22 2026
14 mins
NEWS
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Many of the rules governing Australians are no longer debated in Parliament. They are shaped elsewhere, issued as guidance, and meekly complied withMarch 21, 2026
7 mins
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Jim Chalmers has delivered the most honest and troubling economic statement of the Albanese government to date: no productivity growth for the next five yearsMarch 20, 2026
5 mins
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Two major backers of the Sydney Biennale bailed after guest star DJ Haram's rant about wicked Jews. Why aren't the likes of SBS, AON and Panasonic doing likewise?March 20, 2026
6 mins
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The hardline Marxist's Rules for Radicals is a book anyone opposed to totalitarianism should read. It's a glimpse into the devious, deeply irrational mindset of the LeftMarch 20, 2026
8 mins
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Despite the Wentworth Group's brash confidence -- some might even say arrogance -- their Plan cannot legislate against hydrologyMarch 19, 2026
12 mins
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Predictable as the sun coming up tomorrow, the national broadcaster's hacks have been humming in tune with the Hezbollah song bookMarch 19, 2026
16 mins
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Lord Acton refused to make allowances. A bad action was a bad action, and murder was murder. The end did not justify the means.March 19, 2026
8 mins
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The minor errors in Chester Wilmot's account of the siege are a small quibble. What matters is that a magisterial book by an intrepid journalist gets the attention it deservesMarch 19, 2026
6 mins
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I hate that tree, the one the council won't let me introduce to a chainsaw, almost as much as I have come to detest the AFLMarch 18, 2026
3 mins
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A curriculum that is succinct, academically rigorous and challenging has been missing from our schools for some time. That needs to changeMarch 18, 2026
5 mins
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Whether the casting of a woman as Brutus, the tyrant-killer, is significant is a question best left to Bell Shakespeare's audienceMarch 18, 2026
10 mins
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Leonardo’s teacher, students and contemporaries painted voluptuous nudes at every opportunity, yet the man Hollywood has proclaimed as gay was a positive prude by comparisonMarch 18, 2026
9 mins
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Karl Stefanovic, alone amongst the celebrities who hawked and hyped the Covid hysteria, has set an example by apologising for stoking the panicMarch 17, 2026
7 mins
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Paul Ehrlich’s neo-Malthusian doom-mongering has been proven wrong, yet it remains the conventional wisdomMarch 17, 2026
11 mins
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Our premier cultural institutions are responding to Federation's 125th anniversary with an almost pathological and muted indifferenceMarch 17, 2026
15 mins
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Only rent-seekers, the gullible and Chris Bowen can claim with a straight face that solar is cheap, practical and the futureMarch 17, 2026
30 mins
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Taxing paper profits is irrational, cumbersome and quite likely unworkable, but its far greater wrong is legalising government thieveryMarch 16, 2026
11 mins
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The teal campaign in Farrer has wrapped itself in One Nation's traditional colour. If you can't beat 'em, impersonate 'emMarch 16, 2026
5 mins
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Espionage story, family story, incredible story -- that's the essence of Victor and Frances Metianen's journey from suburban Sydney to the dark world of Stalin's workers' paradiseMarch 16, 2026
15 mins
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Fred Paterson, the only Communist ever elected in Australia, was a thorn in Queensland Labor's side. A policeman's truncheon was the applied remedyMarch 15, 2026
5 mins
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Now as always, the leftist demeanour of so-called 'mainstream media' is a force for spreading alarm and despondencyMarch 15, 2026
5 mins
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"Catholics take Natural Law more seriously than Anglicans, who have fallen prey to the lie that Synods can legislate the Church’s faith"March 15, 2026
16 mins
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Kalumburu is one side of the modern frontier, the kind that lets you in, feeds you, and forgives your fear. On the other side is OombulgurriMarch 14, 2026
8 mins
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We followed Mohamed into Tut's burial chamber. He did his best but suffered a guide’s quandary – too much detail for some of us, and too little for othersMarch 14, 2026
7 mins
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'What offended him was not a lack of quality, but of purpose. He simply couldn’t tolerate things that remained forever and intentionally ambiguous'March 14, 2026
15 mins
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At Bondi the PM confronted a tragedy requiring a careful choice of words. As usual, his tin ear, bland tone, and wait-and-see approach shunned responsibilityMarch 13, 2026
14 mins
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We need to worry when the publicly funded guardians of our cultural legacy turn out to be its most dangerous enemiesMarch 13, 2026
7 mins
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The hatred of self and history the Left promotes can be the first step to the self-destruction of societies as well as individualsMarch 13, 2026
10 mins
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As a declared critic of Donald Trump's policies and conduct, indulge me to note that while his admirers cheered the initial strikes on Iran, two weeks later the evidence isn't so clearMarch 12, 2026
16 mins
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Leonardo’s teacher, students and contemporaries painted voluptuous nudes at every opportunity, yet the man Hollywood has proclaimed as gay was a positive prude by comparison
March 18, 2026
9 mins
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"I use the opera’s story to tell the orchestra how I want them to play. I say, 'The tenor is being murdered with an axe. So, murder the tenor'.”March 5, 2026
15 mins
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One the many obstacles she had to overcome was a psychiatrist husband who believed the musical muse in women was a sign of undeniable mental illnessMarch 4, 2026
16 mins
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Along with other Transylvanian-born composers such as György Ligeti and Péter Eötvös, Kurtág perpetuated the stylistic legacies of Bartók and Kodály.February 20, 2026
4 mins
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'We would all be very happy,' Beckett wrote to the Swiss sculptor, if he were to design the Godot set. A remarkable collaboration ensuedFebruary 11, 2026
40 mins
Fiction
Dinner for Six
“Well, I had my own small war brewing at the table. I didn’t know what to say and you weren’t doing much to help.”
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