Category: Quadrant

In October 2018 Parks Australia banned public access to the summit of Ayers Rock/Uluru for spurious safety and environmental reasons and contested cultural claims. They ignored the views of Aboriginal elders who had been born at the Rock, who had acted as climbing guides, encouraged visitors to climb and

Recently, miffed by its coverage of the US election and its aftermath, I wrote to The Australian: Dear Editor, a suggestion: The cabal of your anti-Trump correspondents should get together each evening to stick pins in an effigy of Donald Trump. That might get the bile out of their

Historically, pandemics generate suspicion, speculation and emotion, before logic and empirical decisions determine optimal management. The current COVID-19 pandemic is no exception. Twelve months on, there is an emerging consensus supporting an integration of a four-pillar plan: public health strategies; vaccination; early pre-hospital treatment; and hospital treatment. This position

NSW Environment Minister Matt Kean will protect the ‘dinosaur tree’ by edict. This comes a full millennium after King Canute demonstrated the futility of attempting to subdue natural forces by royal decree. Canute only got his feet wet, whereas NSW suffered death and destruction in our Black Summer, visited

“Well OK, apart from deregulation, fuller employment, cheaper energy, return of industry, the First Step Act, standing up to China, rejection of the Paris agreement, control of illegal immigration and a Covid vaccine in record time, what has Trump ever done for us?” “Given us peace.” “Ah, shuddup!” In

Former CIA agent Kent Clizbe, who worked in covert operations, has said the infiltration of Marxist notions into the West of is one of the “the most effective influence operations of all time.” It is one thing to speak of political ideas, but here Clizbe is addressing the psychological

Many people are responsible for the riots on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. One of them is Donald Trump. Loose lips sink ships, as they say. Trump talked too much. There’s a reason why politicians speak out of both sides of their mouth – with forked tongue, as Native

Back from a New Year break I found this in my inbox at the start of an email from a restaurant I used to go to: ‘Thank Christ It’s 2021.’ Am I wrong in finding this objectionable? At first I wasn’t sure why I did. It wasn’t because of

What a mystery! Pundit Laura Tingle on ABCTV’s 7.30 last night (January 11) showed 13 seconds of clippage from 1996 of a crowd surging towards Parliament House in Canberra. We got glimpses of blokes pushing and shoving at the doors and at police lines, and then half a dozen

The storming of the Capitol will be written into folklore. I say this not because of the import of the event. It’s hardly a Bastille moment. But because the media is largely in the hands of the Left which will want to exaggerate and enshrine its significance. I don’t

Author Louise Milligan enjoyed a friendly chat with magistrate Belinda Wallington on ABC radio. Wallington would subsequently send Pell to a Supreme Court trial after a committal at which Milligan testified If you want a true sounding of the depths to

In October 1939, Winston Churchill had this to say about the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, signed six weeks earlier. “I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia,” he began. “It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian