Michael Connor
Bosom Buddies
August 8, 2010
Finally, the 2010 election has a theme song. Music you won’t hear at the Labor launch.
Read more...The GetUp! Story
June 23, 2010
GetUp! is a front organization used for promoting New Class political aims. The videos they make reveal the current mood and prejudices of the public servants who fund their campaigns.
Read more...Not happy, David
June 9, 2010
Larvatus Prodeo: “Marr’s article presents Rudd in the bitchiest possible way and is a big time get square. Mealy mouthed and bitchy.”
Read more...Climate blacklist in Melbourne
May 6, 2010
How can you organise a climate change conference and not include sceptics? Easy, hold it at The Wheeler Centre.
Read more...Hubris
April 29, 2010
John Quiggin: “It is necessary to criticise this convention [of debating opposing views] and hammer home the point that the right has become totally disconnected from reality and rational argument.”
Read more...Our New Flag: Spirit of 2010
April 28, 2010
I’ve carefully analysed the criticisms of our flag and designed a new flag to take account of all the Left desires. Men and women of Australia, please be upstanding for the flag of Ruddnation.
Read more...Jack the Ripper: the prime suspect
April 27, 2010
This Whitechapel Murderer suspect was a part of the East End streetscape and he has a name: Charles Allen Lechmere. He was discovered beside the still warm body of murdered prostitute Mary Ann “Polly” Nichols. And he walked away.
Read more...Chavez good for murder
March 12, 2010
Reuters: “Homicides in Venezuela have quadrupled during President Hugo Chavez's 11 years in power, with two people murdered every hour, according to new figures from a non-governmental organization.”
Read more...Menzies House has opened
January 30, 2010
Menzies House, a shiny new and wildly enthusiastic website for “conservative, libertarian and centre-right thinkers” has just opened its doors. A welcome addition to the Australian internet world.
Read more...Australia Day Hate List: 2010
January 24, 2010
In the MSM, and on the totalitarian side of the internet, the approach of Australia Day always sets off a dismal moan-a-thon about Australia. To be helpful we have republished our Left Hate List from last year - with updates for 2010.
Read more...Geert Wilders speaks for freedom
January 21, 2010
In a Dutch courtroom, where he is to be tried for inciting hatred and discrimination, Geert Wilders made a speech that will be heard around the world.
Read more...Rudd's China Day speech
January 19, 2010
Breaking with tradition, Kevin Rudd (the Little Helmsman) delivered his China Day remarks, on the state of the Australian colony, in English.
Read more...Closed pages
January 18, 2010
How Not To Sell A Conservative Book: A Guide. The golden rules for turning a dissident book into an unread remainder quicker than you can say “Melbourne University Press.”
Read more...Has China murdered Gao Zhisheng?
January 16, 2010
Chinese authorities claim that civil rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng has gone “missing”. The lawyer, who had previously been tortured, has been imprisoned by the Beijing Public Security Bureau since February 2009. Is this a euphemism for murder?
Read more...The Very Worst Secret
December 26, 2009
Michael Connor reads his short story “The Very Worst Secret”.
Read more...Tracey does whiteface
October 19, 2009
Tracey couldn’t make it for the Big Quadrant Bash. There was an emergency Fabian seminar she had to go to, to deal with Australian racism in the wake of the Hey Hey scandal.
Read more...Mayhem at Blak Book Awards
September 14, 2009
A tragic but ultimately empowering story of a Black woman who is often mistaken for white, and of her uplifting and ultimately successful struggle to be recognised as a victim of ongoing colonialism and oppression.
Read more...Tracey and the Fabians
September 7, 2009
At a weekend seminar Fabians vote to sell ABC. Tenders to be called.
Read more...Sell the ABC
August 24, 2009
Selling off the ABC would be a way for the Rudd government to start paying back its huge stimulus debt. And it could be a vote winner.
Read more...Tales out of court
July 26, 2009
There has been a bit of consternation around our way recently. Tracey’s partner’s dealer has been in court.
Read more...PM plans to retire
July 20, 2009
Prime Minister Rudd offers intimate details of his personal super scheme - which he has kept “secret within myself and my partner” - and reveals his retirement plans.
Read more...Flannery Marina - selling now
July 13, 2009
Enjoy global warming with seafront views at the beautiful Flannery Marina (previously known as Hahndorf) in the tropical Adelaide everglades.
Read more...Libs mentally ill
July 6, 2009
I hadn’t seen Tracey for a while until I bumped into her the other day in Dick Smith’s looking at talking bathroom scales. I told you she had joined the Fabian Society. Well, she already seems a little over them.
Read more...Obama and Muslim apostasy
June 15, 2009
If an Ahmadinejad sponsored apostasy law had been passed in 2008, President Obama may already have been targeted for murder by the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Read more...Tracey turns Left
May 31, 2009
Tracey’s joined the Fabians. I suppose it had to happen. She’s very career conscious.
Read more...Business Class Radicals
May 25, 2009
On the Left, it rains money - public money. On the Left, you can say anything - and get away with it. On the Left, they get to see the world - and often someone else does the paying.
Read more...A remainder is announced
May 11, 2009
An ex-Tory, ex-Liberal, ex-Prime Minister is writing his memoirs, with the help of a Doctor of Creative Arts “collaborator”, which are to be published by a Left publishing house.
Read more...Rudd writes to Quadrant!
May 4, 2009
We too were “surprised and gratified” when we found the Prime Minister had written to us with an exciting new plan for fixing the economy.
Read more...Phillip Adams nude
April 6, 2009
Free Quadrant pornography. Guys, gals - naked people. Gay marriage - free gay divorces. Lots of really sexy photos.
Read more...The break-up of Australia
March 28, 2009
The Chief Justice of Australia, Robert French, has been reported as supporting calls for a treaty with Aboriginal Australians. With his eyes wide open, the Chief Justice is driving Australia towards a precipice. Inexcusably, he is ignoring the obvious, the desired consequence of the treaty sought by activists - the destruction of Australia's sovereignty.
Read more...Right wing pornography!
March 26, 2009
Openly on sale in Melbourne bookshops. A report on the shame from the front line. We name the booksellers!
Read more...History Wars - the dream cast
March 23, 2009
Quadrant has acquired the performing rights to the History Wars. The cast list is mouthwatering.
Read more...Robert Manne's "Hogwash"
March 16, 2009
Left academics are ideologues first and second, and scholars third.
Read more..."Hayek's got Inflation by the balls"
March 5, 2009
Ron Kitching’s famous photo of F.A. Hayek and Inflation is now over 32 years old.
Read more...The academic publishing game
March 4, 2009
Early in 2008 Henry Reynolds launched a new book of old history by Dr Ian McFarlane called Beyond Awakening, The Aboriginal Tribes of North West Tasmania: A History. It had an interesting publishing history.
Read more...Bob Brown has an affair
March 2, 2009
The story was broken in the Hobart Mercury under the headline - "Printed proof of love affair".
Read more...Simon channells the Zeitgeist
February 18, 2009
Simon’s got a job. He’s started “channelling the Zeitgeist” for Cripes – the online gossip website that Tracey says is going broke.
Read more...Academic Left vs. Left academic
February 11, 2009
During 2008 there was a bloody prize-fight between Left and Left over the ghastly remains of Wilfred Burchett. Robert Manne said he smelt bad, others on the Left said he was perfumed like a red saint.
Read more...Titanic Inc writes sea-safety manual
February 3, 2009
It was revealed at its launch yesterday that Kevin Rudd, CEO of Titanic Inc, is the author of the company’s new Safety Manual for Seafarers.
Read more...The ASIO tapes - Terry Dix
January 29, 2009
Terry Dix is the host of a television current affairs program. He is the brother of the noted Fairfax journalist Dorothy Dix. Although it is said that Dix is an Anchor-For-Life this is not true – it just feels like it.
Read more...Tracey's Invasion Day
January 27, 2009
I saw Tracey and her partner Bruce just after Australia Day and she told me how they celebrated Invasion Day.
Read more...Are you doing it?
January 27, 2009
I am. I walk through my local shopping centre wondering which shops will be among the first to go.
Read more...The Australia Day Hate List
January 23, 2009
Australia Day is a time for reflection – on some of the things the Left hates about Australia.
Read more...Liberal Fascism 101
January 21, 2009
When David Horowitz, who promotes an academic Bill of Rights, attended the annual conference of the Modern Language Association his reception was what you would expect from a room full of progressive American academics.
Read more...What the Left are reading on Obama Day
January 20, 2009
The Australian Left are killing the fine art of satire.
Read more...The countdown to Obama
January 19, 2009
Seems to be the most popular headline in the MSM. It's reminiscent of a 1960s US election ad. The one that began with a girl pulling single petals from a daisy as a voice counted backwards - to a mushroom cloud. To take your mind off Obamamania, and avoid the coronation, two DVDs are highly recommended.
Read more...Tracey's mum goes blogging
January 17, 2009
I saw Tracey at the library yesterday. She was releasing her mum, the one with Alzheimer’s, for an afternoon's blogging.
Read more...When Paul Robeson's voice was silent
January 15, 2009
The fate of working class Americans who migrated to the Soviet Union in the 1930s is recounted in a new book which also documents the silence and cowardice of the western Left who, though aware of the reality behind the Stalinist façade, never spoke out against the horror.
Read more...Australiaphobia
January 14, 2009
The distinctive feature of Australiaphobia is a desire to hurt, inflict pain, and wound Australian society.
Read more...Bernard Black - a profile
January 13, 2009
You know Bernard Black. Everyone knows Bernard. The writer you think of whenever the words “Australia’s Leading Indigenous Writer and a Living National Treasure” pop into your mind.
Read more...Hatred blows in from the Left
January 11, 2009
When the hoax was blowing through the media last week the hot air blew in some strange non-readers.
Read more...David Marr goes Quadrant bashing
January 10, 2009
It took less than five minutes for David Marr to turn the conning of Quadrant into an excuse for attacking Keith Windschuttle and Quadrant in the Sydney Morning Herald. Was it payback for having laughed at Marr?
Read more...Jason Soon hoaxcatcher
January 10, 2009
Jason Soon, on Catallaxy, was the first blogger to discover the identity of trickster Sharon What’s-her-name.
Read more...Jennifer Marohasy suggests revenge
January 10, 2009
Jennifer Marohasy on hoaxing Quadrant and a great idea for revenge.
Read more...Shocking photo of David Marr discovered
January 10, 2009
A new book with startling revelations of Left cultural aggression and a cover photo of David Marr.
WARNING: Image not suitable for the faint hearted.
Read more...Tracey's hoax joke
January 9, 2009
I saw Tracey today. It was very busy at the supermarket but in between scanning my baked beans and fish sauce (small bottle) she told me a joke.
Read more..."Michael Moore Hates America"
January 9, 2009
The 2004 documentary about Michael Moore, Michael Moore Hates America, has made it into the discount stores - and is well worth looking for.
Read more...Comments on hoaxing Quadrant
January 7, 2009
Soon after it was revealed that Quadrant had been hoaxed the internet was buzzing. Two comments stood out – one for malice and one for common sense.
Read more...Left win literary award - again
January 6, 2009
Richard Flanagan’s wild, environmentalist diatribe called “Out of Control” won the $15,000 John Curtin Prize for Journalism in the 2008 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards.
Read more...At the Movies with Blecker and Nun
January 4, 2009
For years and years and years Blecker and Nun have bored their way through weakly [sic] TV programs of film criticism.
Read more...Titanic Inc. buys Gitmo franchise
January 2, 2009
With emotion, though speaking falteringly in English, Kevin Rudd, the CEO of Titanic Inc, announced that the company has successfully purchased the franchise for Gitmo detonators in the Australasian region.
Read more...The "cursed generation"
December 29, 2008
According to reviewer Bernard Chapin author Roger L. Simon had second thoughts about the havoc his cursed generation bought upon the American people.
Read more...Tracey does Xmas
December 28, 2008
Caught up with Tracey after Christmas. Even though she is taking a well deserved break from researching her PhD in performing arts she was looking a bit frazzled. It can’t be easy being a checkout chick with a conservationist conscience giving out all those plastic bags and I know that Rudd's performance on the environment has been getting her a bit depressed lately.
Read more...Love among the ruins
December 27, 2008
Christmas is over. A splendid new year, well interesting anyway, stretches before us. But spare a thought for the unfortunate Left.
Read more...The ASIO tapes - Kevin Rudd
December 24, 2008
Kevin Rudd is the CEO of Titanic Inc. This confidential Report points to the source for his internationally acclaimed linguistic excellence and gives examples of his uncanny ability to descend to the level of his audience.
Read more...Tsunami warning
December 24, 2008
Thomas Sowell: The rise in unemployment after the stock market crash of 1929 was a blip on the screen compared to the soaring unemployment rates reached later, after a series of government interventions.
Read more...Buy that degree - NOW
December 23, 2008
One internet company writes the essays while students occupy themselves “focusing on more important things.” Sounds like a recession-proof business.
Read more...The worst poet in America
December 23, 2008
The President-Elect has chosen Elizabeth Alexander to read her poetry on Inauguration Day, 2009. Read and tremble.
Read more...Obama does plagiarism
December 22, 2008
I saw Simon the other day. He’s the novelist who lives in the granny flat at the back of Tracey’s. He’s mad with Obama and is thinking of suing him for plagiarism.
Read more...Bill of Rites Rules
December 22, 2008
Frank Brennan, Managing Director of Bill of Rights Pty Ltd, launched the company’s first promotional blimp from the Australian's head office in Murdochville. As it soared into the air Father Brennan gave a sermon on the mound.
Read more...Beckie graduates
December 21, 2008
Beckie has graduated from the local university. Her education there was an experience many of her generation have shared.
Read more...Yes, Arts Minister
December 21, 2008
If you thought political correctness was dying – think again. It's Peter Garrett's new hat in a career that could be the TV hit of 2009.
Read more...Peter Garrett - the soft warrior
December 20, 2008
Titanic Inc Arts Minister Peter Garrett: I have no hesitation in standing here, as a former practicing artist, and say the arts are inherently valuable; they are a public good.
WARNING: This is not a satire.
Read more...Baz does Gatsby - Zelda unbottles bender
December 20, 2008
Baz Luhrmann has acquired the rights to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Zelda was unavailable for comment.
Read more...Crims rule! - not OK
December 19, 2008
Christine Nixon is police commissioner of the Underbelly state. She is leaving her job. The state’s police force is not in the best condition.
Read more...Harmony Week goes Left
December 19, 2008
Angela Davis was in Australia to present the Chancellors’ Oration at Murdoch University and give some public lectures: “to speak about the ways racism infiltrates our institutions without us realising.” The Left applauded.
Read more...Titanic Inc. welcomes People Smugglers Inc.
December 18, 2008
This week Titanic Inc. welcomed People Smugglers Inc. into the Australian market and Australian waters. “Competition is good,” said Captain Rudd.
Read more...Australia - "the prosaic facts of history"
December 17, 2008
Ross Douthat at the National Review (December 15) has reviewed Baz Luhrmann’s movie of last week – Australia: The overall effect is Little Black Sambo by way of Dances with Wolves: The condescension is intended to be favorable, but it’s condescension all the same.
Professor Marcia Langton thinks differently.
Read more...The best books of 2008
December 16, 2008
Christmas is the time for looking back at the past year’s crop of books and choosing those which really stood out. Here is my personal selection of seven outstanding conservative non-fiction books published in Australia in 2008.
Read more...Titanic Inc. writes suicide note
December 16, 2008
Terry McCrann: Rudd becomes the first prime minister to specifically set out to make Australia and Australians poorer. Significantly and permanently.
Read more...Give Australia a Little Black Christmas
December 15, 2008
Education minister Julia Gillard could improve Australian education by forgetting about free Google machines and handing the kids copies of Mark Lopez’s The Little Black Schoolbook. While waiting for her to do so you might consider putting it on your own Christmas giving list.
Read more...Bill Muehlenberg
December 15, 2008
Bill Muehlenberg blogs on Quadrant Online. Bill Muehlenberg wrote a brilliant book.
Read more...Steyn Aid - Mark Steyn sings for World Peace
December 15, 2008
THE Mark Steyn has recorded a musical single for Christmas – A Marshmallow World. True.
Read more...The Australian Conservative
December 14, 2008
The Australian Conservative goes places you don’t want to go and brings back treasures of Left stupidity, malice and lunacy. More importantly, it highlights the increasingly good comment to be found on Australia's dissident websites.
Read more...Bad movie, great review
December 13, 2008
Peter Suderman: Good blockbusters always show audiences something new, and here, you can't fault it: It's the first movie to feature a hive of enviro-socialist alien nano-goo as its villain.
Read more...Bill of Rights Pty. Ltd. appoints director
December 13, 2008
This week (while the opposition was holding their weekly Christmas party) Bill of Rights Pty. Ltd. announced the appointment of well known cultural entrepreneur Frank Brennan as Managing Director.
Read more...Titanic Inc. buys iceberg - crowd cheers
December 12, 2008
What a future for our country. Jobless, sitting at home amongst empty boxes and broken toys waiting for another Rudd cheque which may never arrive.
Read more...Killer Chic
December 12, 2008
The faces of killers Che and Mao sell jewellery, beer, food, tee-shirts and movies. A new online film, Killer Chic, removes the makeup.
Read more...Quadrant exits closet and bakes cake
December 11, 2008
Quadrant - a magazine that lost its raison d’etre after the Cold War, and is a refuge for fruitcakes and closet racists.
[Note to Editor - Perhaps we should contact Louise Malaprop at SMUP and suggest a Quadrant Fruitcake and Biscuit Cookbook?]
The ASIO tapes - Louise Malaprop
December 10, 2008
Louise Malaprop is Director-For-Life of the South Melbourne University Press (SMUP). Mrs Malaprop is the wife of renowned actor and esteemed purveyor of charcuterie to the gentry Max Malaprop.
Read more...Wadeye is us
December 9, 2008
Over its lifetime Quadrant has published important essays which have had an impact on Australia’s public life. In the December issue Patrick McCauley’s essay, “Wadeye: Failed State as Cultural Triumph”, is such a work.
Read more...Titanic Inc. appoints Arts advisory panel
December 9, 2008
The Prime Minister’s 2020 Creative Australia was a weekend party which produced confusion, quite a lot of hot air, and a huge hangover.
Read more...Titanic Inc. gives cash to steerage class
December 9, 2008
Latest news from White Star head office in Canberra.
Read more...Money, money, money - Christmas '08
December 7, 2008
The auction was very interesting. There were a lot of first home buyers. It was held by a well known local firm and they began with a Welcome to Country ritual. Tracey said they get Arts funding to do it. At some auctions they even perform smoking ceremonies.
Read more...Why don't they get it?
December 5, 2008
Left blogs attract Left readers. Conservative blogs attract Right and Left. The comments pages on the blogs of Andrew Bolt, Janet Albrechtsen, Tim Blair and Piers Akerman etc are lively places. Phillip Adams’ blog is a cemetery with dull contributions from the typing dead.
Read more...Silly season begins early - in Canberra
December 5, 2008
“AUSTRALIAN universities are not controlled by left-wing academics hell bent on brainwashing students, a Senate inquiry has found.” News.com.au
Read more...I don't think like that anymore
December 5, 2008
Before, every time news of something awful broke, I used to say “Now, they’ll understand. Now they’ll get it.” They never did and I felt awful.
Read more...Whiteness Studies Uber Alles
December 4, 2008
Last week the Mumbai killers were asking who among their victims were British or American. This week Monash University is hosting the Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association’s “Re-Orienting Whiteness Conference”. Connect the dots for yourself between foolish western academics with killing ideas and terrorists killing for ideas.
Actor bites audience - Is there a vet in the house?
December 4, 2008
It’s true, Left theatre even bores Left actors.
Read more...So this is cultural studies
December 2, 2008
“The beach remains the rallying ground of Anglo-Australia, the preserve of decent, wholesome white bodies, policed in a variety of ways against any contaminating whiff of “dirty wog” – and, by implication, even dirtier black – bodies.” Suvendrini Perera
Read more...Australiaphobia - the movie not by Baz Luhrmann
December 1, 2008
It starts with a revolving globe showing the Imperial Japanese Army heading for Australia with duty free stopovers in Hong Kong, Bali and Singapore and then it cuts to the tastefully naked lady aristocrat dancing under the Botox gusher she has just discovered in the desert.
Read more...On Spring Theatre
November 1, 2008
Free in Melbourne on a spring afternoon I went walking. Last time in Melbourne was mid-winter and the place was dirty and dull. It had recovered. In the capital of black I noticed an ecotourism travel company called Extragreen Holidays. Their advertising sign had the company name emblazoned across a very big jumbo jet.
On David Williamson
September 2, 2008
Behind me the ladies ate Maltesers, in a satirical manner, while talking of crumbling bones and ABC reruns of As Time Goes By.
Read more...The Follies Bizarre: Australia's political theatre
September 1, 2008
The hero of a Stephen Sewell play, and clearly his creator’s alter ego, says: “People change.
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