November 3, 2011
“Yes, it’s about my case - and it’s the account that’s got closest to describing the full and sinister farce.”
Read more...November 2, 2011
David Hobson and Teddy Tahu Rhodes in concert. Both exercise a strong pull factor for women of a certain age: Hobson verges on the Liberace school, while all Rhodes has to do is take off his shirt.
Read more...October 31, 2011
Well, thank goodness that’s over – although here in Perth we are confiding to each other that it turned out to be a lot more fun that any of us expected.
Read more...October 31, 2011
Where were the protesters? Where were all the indignantaries? The party poopers?
Read more...October 31, 2011
The OWS protesters and those copying them in other parts of the world have been criticised for being incoherent. In fact, they are truly representative of the Left.
Read more...October 30, 2011
No one should count on is some kind of good sense and fair play by the unions involved. It will come down to what they think they can get away with and nothing else. The public be damned is the only principle unions have ever known.
Read more...October 27, 2011
The latest episode of the left's default position – when in doubt, hate – is the attempt to prevent the Israel Research Forum at Sydney University next week.
Read more...October 25, 2011
Who’s upsetting the great intellectuals of Australia?
Read more...October 24, 2011
The simple economic message for governments and individuals that have systematically spent more than their incomes is to cut back their spending and save more. This will not send economies into a tailspin as feared by the IMF.
Read more...October 24, 2011
Capitalists don’t take their wealth from society - they make it. Consequently they have no “corporate social responsibility” to give their wealth back to society. The billions Steve Jobs left in Apple’s coffers were not taken from anyone.
Read more...October 21, 2011
Gary Foley, the sixty-one year old, enters to great enthusiasm and applause. There is nothing at the Melbourne Festival that is not loud leftwing and multicultural. So inclusive, it has all become exclusive.
Read more...October 21, 2011
They just came for fun - to demand equality, equanimity, equitability, and, possibly extraterritoriality and exhumation.
Read more...October 18, 2011
President Obama, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Harry Belafonte and Sean Penn suffer from money illusion.
Read more...October 17, 2011
Poor old Crikey, its taken them 7 months to catch up with a Quadrant article.
Read more...October 17, 2011
Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier captured by Hamas while on patrol more than five years ago, is going home as a result of prisoner exchange. This exchange is ultimately wrong.
Read more...October 14, 2011
It’s not The West Wing we should be watching to get the new slant on politics and how to run a country. No! The TV series to watch is The Borgias.
Read more...October 14, 2011
This week, a mere 60 ordinary Australians paid a protest visit to Canberra and secured the undivided attention of no less than 40 MPs. They had come to ask for gay marriage legislation.
Read more...October 13, 2011
The carbon tax gives to government the power to take away and to give. It fits perfectly in the worldview of today’s Left.
Read more...October 13, 2011
The Australian parliament unanimously condemned the ‘persecution’ of Coptic Christians in Egypt, and called on the Government to make ‘immediate’ representations on the Coptic issue both to the UN and to the Egyptian government.
Read more...October 12, 2011
When in Egypt, Kevin Rudd said not a word regarding the appalling treatment of the Copts by the Mubarak regime. Thursday’s vote expressing support for the Copts gives the foreign minister and the government to which he belongs an opportunity to make amends.
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The Quadrant Book of Poetry: 2001 - 2010
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