Category: Quadrant

Published in London in 1975 as a critique of progressive, New Age education and edited by C.B.Cox and Rhodes Boyson, the publication Black Paper 1975 The Fight for Education should be compulsory reading for anyone with an interest or involvement in education and schools. If ever there was a panacea for

Throughout this COVID pandemic, governments of all persuasions have been arguing that draconian measures are needed to save  lives, the ‘”flatten the curve” mantra of the early days having evolved into a crusade (“a war”, as Victoria’s Daniel Andrews would have it) to reduce the risk of death or permanent

In a just-filed submission to the Lawyer X Royal Commission, retired Federal Court judge and former Queensland Special Prosecutor Douglas Drummond argues that Victoria Police cannot be trusted to investigate current and former brass should the commission recommend that criminal charges be pursued. That submission is reproduced in full below

In the Iraq-Iran wars of the 1980s, Ayatollah Khomeini sent 12-year-old Iranian schoolchildren swarming into no-man’s-land to detonate the mines. The keen kids wore devotional slogans on red headbands and each carried a small metal key to open the gates of Paradise. The analogy with enrolling Australian kids as zero-emission

The study of humanities has lately come under much scrutiny. Many have shared their thoughts and have tried to come to an accurate assessment of the problem. As a university student  — studying in the humanities and education sector — I have a unique angle on the situation. It seems

Industrial capitalism has transformed the world and has had a massive effect on civilisation. In this episode, Clark concludes his epic series with a discussion of this epoch-defining process as it erupted through the 19th and into the early 20th centuries. As book-ends, he contrasts the industrial landscape of 19th

Trump haters are most prevalent in the United States but they are everywhere, including in our midst. Troy Bramston was at again the other day in my morning Australian newspaper, the price of which has just risen by 17 percent. A case of getting less for more. “Biden in the

You’ve may have seen the film Crazy Rich Asians. Now get ready for a five-part ABC comedy that might accurately have been titled ‘Crazy Rich Gay Aborigines.’ ABC, Screen Australia and Screen Queensland last month announced the real title, All My Friends Are Racists as “an electric Black and queer comedy

  So what happens next year?  The current resurgence of COVID-19 in the northern hemisphere as its winter approaches should be sounding alarms in Australia.  It is obvious the virus will continue to pose a threat to public health here until mid-2022 at the earliest.  Even if a viable vaccine

This week deals with two events of fundamental importance in the history of civilisation, and that resonate strongly today. Firstly, Clark vividly illustrates the pivotal shift in Western culture from Classicism to Romanticism, and how the latter inspired unprecedented hopes that some form of absolute freedom was within human reach.

Long ago, a boy grew up so beautiful that he met a terrible death, made worse because everyone said it was his own fault. The myth of Narcissus has come down to us as a cautionary tale about a singular youth in love with his reflection. Examined more closely, the

The right to speak and discuss public policy matters is an essential part of democracy – and one which for many years now has been under attack from the Left. The recent anti-discrimination complaint against me — for saying that women’s sports, changerooms and toilets are designed for females and