They cast book sales and per diems upon the ground, so there's at least a slight upside to the literary leftoid luvvie exodus
Jan 17 2026
9 mins
Germany, France, Sweden, Norway, Finland, the Netherlands and the UK have all dispatched troops to Greenland. But seriously, can they counter Trump?
Jan 17 2026
7 mins
An invasion presupposes attackers, defenders, military power, and the violent seizure of territory. Nothing like that happened at Sydney Cove
Jan 17 2026
10 mins
Had George Pell been an imam rather than a cardinal his ordeal before another royal commission would likely have been much easier
Jan 16 2026
2 mins
NEWS
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How ideology, NGOs and process-creep have captured Australia’s land and climate polices to the immense detriment of all but those issuing the green edictsJanuary 16, 2026
10 mins
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Recent hate-speech laws, probably well-intentioned, exhibit parallels to sharia’s slander framework, potentially narrowing discourse on political IslamJanuary 16, 2026
9 mins
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One doesn't need to believe the Third Reich's war-production minister's mea culpas to find his memoir a direct relevance to the West's current woesJanuary 15, 2026
16 mins
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So much as raisethe now-embedded prejudice against boys and men in the context of the feminisation of the society and you are denounced as “misogynist”January 14, 2026
12 mins
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It's not just the brave Iranians fighting to be free who are at risk. So long as the Tehran regime remains we all areJanuary 14, 2026
3 mins
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Going by the record of this and previous Labor governments, it’s beyond dispute multiculturalism and indiscriminate immigration have eroded social cohesion rather than promoting itJanuary 14, 2026
5 mins
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Nearly every aspect of Victoria's bushfire management is dictated by unions and academic theoreticians, not experienced bushfire specialists or rural VictoriansJanuary 13, 2026
9 mins
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Two narrow themes infuse everything: climate change and Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. As a vision for Australian science this is disastrous.January 13, 2026
8 mins
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Here is a call for transparency, accountability, and reform. If governments are to avoid the mistakes of 2020 to 2022, answers are neededJanuary 12, 2026
4 mins
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Individuals of whatever religion are usually decent. Absolutist ideologies antithetical to pluralism and democracy are notJanuary 12, 2026
6 mins
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A Prefect of the Press is an enjoyable, witty and wise novel. Pity about the typosJanuary 11, 2026
5 mins
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Albanese's long-delayed Royal Commission is supposed to identify anti-Semitism's 'key drivers'. Nowhere in its letters patent is there mention of Islam, Muslims or jihadisJanuary 11, 2026
7 mins
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The forever and forlorn hope is that Islam will become enlightened and, in the particular, Hamas will disarm and give up power. How this fantasy persists defies all logicJanuary 11, 2026
6 mins
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It requires a special strain of hypocrisy to celebrate Trump's actions in Venezuela while condemning Putin’s assertion of Russian prerogatives in UkraineJanuary 10, 2026
11 mins
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'Some say Shakespeare’s sonnets are about trying to reconcile two competing loves. If the world’s greatest poet couldn’t do it, what chance did I have?'January 10, 2026
11 mins
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ACON awards accolades to media organisations using trans-approved language. The national broadcaster is determined to get the biggest gold star of allJanuary 9, 2026
11 mins
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Young Australians may be the first generation in our history to be worse off than their parents. That, surely, must be a fulcrum for leveraging voting habitsJanuary 8, 2026
7 mins
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The Left ruled my alma mater back in the Eighties, but I could never have imagined a day when it would be open season on JewsJanuary 8, 2026
14 mins
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First, because of the Bondi massacre and, second, because this moral derangement is so generously underwritten by taxpayersJanuary 8, 2026
7 mins
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The ABC would have you believe the ongoing uprising in Iran is motivated solely by inflation. That's not the case, not at allJanuary 8, 2026
8 mins
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Balanced against the right to protest must be governments' ability to go about their business on our behalf largely unimpededJanuary 7, 2026
13 mins
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It isn't hard to grasp why Trump believes free speech and media competition are preferable to Continent-wide censorship and suppressionJanuary 7, 2026
10 mins
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The gulf between Adelaide -- seen as too different, too un-Australian -- and the rest of the country is widening. Can secession be far off?January 6, 2026
7 mins
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The populist wants you to feel. The algorithm wants you to click. One of the most subversive acts left is to sit still … and thinkJanuary 6, 2026
11 mins
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Just imagine how Australians would react were Donald Trump to make off with our Prime Minister. Why, we'd probably have a royal commissionJanuary 6, 2026
3 mins
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Given the concern my four empty and harmless pistol magazines caused, I'd like to see authorities master current gun laws before adding new onesJanuary 5, 2026
7 mins
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The revival of Australian Liberalism, if it happens, will come about under a leader with populist tendencies finely tuned to local conditionsJanuary 5, 2026
16 mins
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The resources squandered in pursuit of Net Zero, well they all inflate GDP. All in all, blowing up the Harbour Bridge would be more efficientJanuary 4, 2026
5 mins
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What does it say about Australia when a Prime Minister is allowed to get away with treating the truth like Play-Doh?January 4, 2026
6 mins
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Here's hoping the selectors pack Usman Khawaja's kit and send him off to a life of full-time whining about how hard done by he isJanuary 4, 2026
11 mins
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Sir Charles lives on through the skills he so willingly shared with many others, but above all, in his legacy of so many fine and easily available recordingsNovember 23, 2025
9 mins
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Whether in the Opera House or the concert hall, Charles Mackerras was one of the most intelligent and exciting conductors of his generation.November 13, 2025
19 mins
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"The state orchestras are machines ... One of my criticisms of them has been that, for a large part, they are drowning in bureaucracy"|November 4, 2025
14 mins
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The Victorian Opera has taken Leoš Janáček seldom staged Katya Kabanová and produced a triumph.October 28, 2025
7 mins
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Fifty-five years on, following major renovations, the Carillon is retaking its place in Canberra’s musical and social life.October 27, 2025
5 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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The September 2024 issue of our magazine is now available via our website and in newsagents. You can click here to view the contents. Digital subscribers can enjoy the PDF and online articles now, and print subscribers will receive their hardcopies in the mail.September 2, 2024
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