Category: Quadrant

Recently, Coalition senators voted with One Nation to pass a motion put by Senator Pauline Hanson that called for the government to eject Critical Race Theory (CRT) from the national education curriculum. This echoes a flurry of state-level legislation in the US currently being considered or already passed. The

When I received my copy of Farmers or Hunter/Gatherers? The Dark Emu Debate by Drs Sutton and Walshe, of course the first thing I did was to check if my book got a mention, and indeed it did.  What a buzz, you might think.  Alas, Bitter Harvest was relegated

Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced in early July that “when COVID is like the flu, we should treat it like the flu, and that means no lockdowns”. Did this mean he had finally run up the white flag in Australia’s damaging, quixotic quest to achieve ‘Zero Covid’? The intention

At last! Bruce Pascoe has now located Aboriginal towns where his pre-historic forebears built their domed houses! What a breakthrough for global science, anthropology and archaeology. These towns, with their farmlands and pens for wombat and bandicoot livestock, could predate the Mesopotamians and Pharoahs by tens of thousands of

You would think that the acquittal of Cardinal George Pell might have drawn a line under the child sexual abuse saga, especially in Victoria, where it reached its highest level of hysteria. You would think that two decades of no reported child abuse of any sort in the city

Now that all Australian governments, federal and state, are committed to total COVID-19 elimination, regardless of cost, economic, social and psychological until some undefined percentage of mass vaccination is achieved, it is high time we face up to some stark choices. Otherwise, we will continue the descent into hysteria

If the Fall of Rome is to illuminate the present crisis of American Civilisation it is necessary to identify the factors that made Rome great, and the forces that brought her to her knees. And here the work of Edward Gibbon in his monumental History of the Decline and

As well as subsidy-seekers, governments, international institutions, business leaders and investment managers all conspire to close down cheap energy. The confected notion of harmful climate change is the justification for the dethronement of market forces and their replacement by a new clerisy of politicians and bureaucrats controlling the world’s

According to Henry Ergas (The Australian, July 16), “our population fatality rate from COVID … has been four times that due to the flu in its harshest seasons.” “¿Que”, as Fawlty Towers‘ Manuel might say. Deaths from COVID in the 16 months from the first death equals 912. Deaths

When even Crikey! concludes a much-championed and revered voice of the cultural Left is a rogue and fraud you can be sure the reputational rot has reached the terminal stage. That’s the take-away lesson from David Hardaker’s gentle leap onto the anti-Pascoe bandwagon.  Here he is, after a few

Having spent two years of my life on the border between the contemporary Uzbekistan and Afghanistan as a Soviet Army conscript medic many years ago, my take on the Western withdrawal from this sad place is quite different from what might be called the op-ed page consensus. It was

Pronouns are not everyone’s idea of a good time, and this is especially true of Bonnie Logan, a 23-year-old law student at Monash University. Last week, The Age drew its readers’ attention to the terrible hardship Logan has undergone while doing her pre-tutorial readings: repeated and unrelenting encounters with