Australia Day 2012
2011 was a glorious year for the Left. They had a wonderful time being cranky, and even found some new targets to loathe.
As they continued their passionate love affair with themselves they still found time to bully Jews in Australian streets and Twitter away about “Paedos in speedos” and sex with horses.
This year’s Australia Day Hate List is, as always, just a few of the things that the Left hate about Australia.
It’s dedicated to all those people who are celebrating our national day by putting Australian flags on their cars.
(Illustration: New flag proposal)
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Back to skool
Playing its part in the taxpayer-funded Digital Education Revolution, the Perth public high school where I teach last year provided all year nine and ten students with laptop computers.
The scheme was a fiasco from the outset.
The computers were issued in the expectation that students would use them for a number of years.
Considering that several of the computers were broken the day of issue, and the number subsequently trashed (some repeatedly), it will be a miracle if any of the computers last the anticipated three years.
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Opinion
Keith Windschuttle
Silencing Constitution debate
Brull's double standard seeks to deny the right to speak to anyone of whom he does not approve. On an issue as momentous as a referendum to change the constitution, every Australian has the right to speak freely. More…
Hate List updated
The Australia Day Hate List has been updated with the Australia Day Hate Video. More…
It’s official!!
Professor Bunyip: “Quadrant gets better with every latest issue.” More…
Position vacant - speechwriter:
Peter Smith
Baby power packs punch
Like a confidence trickster intending to fleece the unwary, the Left will inevitably ramp up a disingenuous campaign to lower the voting age. More…
Keith Windschuttle
Bad faith debate
The report to change the Constitution to recognize indigenous people is written in bad faith. It attempts to intimidate Australians by exploiting the emotions of guilt and shame. More…
Marcia Langton
Quadrant does lunch
“Patrick McCauley, speaking for the old Quadrant club of white men who lunch…” More…
Dedicated to professor Langton:
Philippa Martyr
Everybody’s Wiggling
This really is serious news: given the state of the rest of the economy, we may be looking at a Wiggles-led recovery in 2012. More…
Peter Smith
I confess!
I’m a ninety-nine percenter and I’m not going to take it anymore! More…
Sam Sorbo
Misogynistic historical fantasy
The filmmakers, seemingly confused about Thatcher’s actual, incredible successes, focus on her dementia and femininity while categorically denying her capability. More…
James Allan
Man the boats!
Crew members said that some men, during all that chaos and confusion as the Costa Concordia listed badly to one side, would not give up their spots on the life rafts for women and children. More…
Miranda Devine
Bravo real Iron Lady
The last movie I walked out of was a Reservoir Dogs video, during the dental torture scene. But I was pregnant at the time and squeamish. This time it was Iron Lady. More…
Tim Blair
Doomsday fun
Like most normal people, when I think of modern performance art I immediately want the world to end. More…
John Nolte
Streep-phobia
The overrated Meryl Streep (whose acting meter broke decades ago) proves once again that this current crop of actors the world is saddled with is about as classless a bunch as we’ll ever see (hopefully). More…
Hams do Thatcher
Christopher Carr on The Iron Lady. More…
Paul Keating
Dollar debate
I am trusting that his [Bob Hawke’s] utterances on this subject arise from diminished memory of events 30 years ago, rather than from any express intention to diminish my role, central as it was, in this seminal event. More…
Blog Hunter
Summer 2012
Noah Stewart sings "The Star-Spangled Banner":
Anthony Callea sings
"Advance Australia Fair":
Australia Day poems
Our favourite collection of poems for celebration, and remembrance, on our day. More…
David F. Smith
Green myths about Australian farming
Put simply, we shouldn’t have come here—we should have left it to the Aborigines who were so much more in harmony with the land than we are. More…
Before Steyn
Mark Steyn is shortly to visit Australia (see What’s On). Daryl McCann’s review of Steyn’s recent book After America is here…
IPCC correction
How a Quadrant Online book review led to the IPCC making a correction. Tony Thomas tells the story here…
Tony Thomas
Climate correction in NZ
A casual visitor to a museum makes a complaint, an official agrees it is valid, and pledges to get to work on a correction. Is life meant to be this easy? More…
David Joss
Myth of ancient red gum forests
Claims that the forests growing along the Murray were “the last remaining red gum forests on earth” are a myth. More…
Sev Sternhell
Midnight train from Budapest
The last time I left Budapest by train was in June 1944 and I, with 1680 others, was leaving for destinations unknown, seventy to a cattle truck. We finished up in Belsen. More…
Michael Galak
Sweet monsters
Nothing better brings an understanding of one’s humanity and its imperfections than the necessity to look after one’s grandkids. More...
Frank Devine
Better dead than Green
I’m inclined to think the Greens could do more damage to the party they help to victory, given the price they will seek if they hold the balance of power through accumulation of Senate seats. More...
John Stone
Floating the dollar
The first draft of history, they say, is written by the journalists. It would be truer to say that it is written by the politicians and political advisers from whom most journalists obtain their copy. More…
Doomed Planet
Tom Quirk
A Tale of Two Disciplines
As a demonstration of how to present scientific discovery and understanding, the contrast between the possible discovery of the Higgs particle and climate science progress could not be more different. More…
Walter Starck
More climate madness
It is a mass mania not unlike those that swept Europe in the Middle Ages and manifested in the form of witch hunts, dancing manias and the Children’s Crusade. More…
Free climate ebook
The Intelligent Voter's Guide to Global Warming is now available as a free Quadrant ebook. Here…
Quadrant Online Opinion
Read more Doomed Planet articles here...
What’s On
21 February: Dan Hannan in Sydney.
24 February: Dan Hannan in Melbourne.
27 February: Mark Steyn in Melbourne.
29 February: Mark Steyn in Sydney.
2 March: Mark Steyn in Brisbane.
Details here…