Category: Quadrant

It wasn’t surprising when a sombre group marched along a New Zealand beach to protest the ongoing murders of white South African farmers chose to wear black “the colour of death”. Unfortunately, their choice to wear black did little to attract the attention of our media, where this important cause

Will this hurtful preaching never cease? Another example has popped up from the sewers of discrimination and intolerance.

Will ye commit abomination such as no creature ever did before you…ye come with lust unto men instead of women…ye are wanton.

People who quote this kind of stuff should be ostracised

According to many, the Israel Folau controversy is not merely about freedom of speech but, more specifically, freedom of religious expression, even religious freedom. Seeing that Folau’s social media post was unquestionably a religious expression and a rather forceful one at that, narrowing down the issue to religious expression appears

Is Israel Folau a homophobe? I’d say that only if you’re full of leftist prejudice could you decide that he is. Sadly for his good name there are lots of people in high places who simply drip with that kind of prejudice.

Yet as this cause célèbre runs on and

The four big losers in the May  election were Bill Shorten, Tony Abbott, Cory Bernardi and Malcolm Turnbull. Perhaps only one of them – it is easy to guess which – has emerged with dignity and reputation intact.  He has acted with the grace one would expect, without fuss, not looking

The original inhabitants of Australia were dispossessed of their land and way of life by British colonists. No fair-minded, intelligent Australian of whatever extraction would dispute that assertion, although attitudes concerning the morality of it, or the lack thereof, vary widely. Nevertheless, it is grossly dishonest to pass judgement according