It came as no surprise after Brexit and the election of Donald Trump that, rather than analyse movements rejecting the policies and edicts of an unaccountable, ruling elite in government, business, academia and the media, the Left embraced paranoia, denigration, conspiracy theory and demands for censorship

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'It’s 80 or 90 years since Western countries have faced such internal and external challenges: with the rich getting richer and the poor getting less poor, but the middle class increasingly squeezed; with economies floundering under high taxes for ever more generous welfare systems and the red tape needed to achieve ESG goals'

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The early seventeenth century was English poetry's golden age for the poetry of meditation, a more specialised and concentrated process than contemplation. Meditation seeks unity with the Godhead, and it is this particular genre which has given us some of the greatest poems in the language.

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Eighty years after my father returned from the war, the shrieking ghouls howling their hatred on our streets and universities turn my thoughts to a family heirloom, an elderly Jew's gift of gratitude, and I wonder with disgust how the evil we're seeing was imported and allowed to take root in my country

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Progressives denounce populism as a 'threat' to democracy, observes editor Rebecca Weisser in our just-released May edition. As former Prime Minister Tony Abbott also writes in this edition, 'If it’s the elected populists that worry you, isn’t that mistrusting democracy itself?'

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The convergence of militant Islamism with various neo-Marxist organizations began amid the social, cultural and political turmoil of the Sixties, a period that saw fellow travelers and useful idiots demanding, as did the Austrian Corporal, the destruction of liberal democracy. His heirs are doing their best

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Have we traded one tyranny for another? Instead of the divine right of kings, we have the divine right of parliament. Or worse, the divine right of unelected commissioners, whose 'independent' status allows governments to disassociate themselves while tacitly applauding bureaucratic over-reach

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Upon the death of her father in 1904, a despairing Virginia threw herself from a window too low to do any real harm. Recovering, she insisted Edward VII was lurking and cursing in the shrubbery while birds spoke to her in Greek. Just 22 at the time, madness and maladies would be frequent companions until her suicide in1942

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Margaret Thatcher expected 'a lot of hard work' from the London-based Australian dentist when she was elevated to the House of Lords in 1981 as Baroness Gardner of Parkes. As her fellow Peers mark her passing there can be no doubt about her energy and industry, albeit at the sometime cost of the Iron Lady's displeasure

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We can only speculate, as did Mr Justice Lee, about the state of two young colleagues'minds in the office of their boss after a night of drinks and public 'pashing'. For my money, the judge called it right. The pity is that he didn't address the grey areas of consent, a change of mind and the entire concept of 'date rape'

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The 1937 manifesto of the New South Wales Aboriginal Progressive Association, which had sibling organisations in other states: 'We have no desire to go back to primitive conditions of the Stone Age. We ask you to teach our people to live in the Modern Age, as modern citizens' How times have changed!

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Australia is rich because we live off industries generating copious quantities of so-called greenhouse gas emissions. Now something particularly menacing is afoot, namely the sheer waste and folly in tearing down reliable power supplies and replacing them with ruinously expensive, inferior, allegedly 'green' alternatives.

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What is needed, in addition to ensuring the nation can defend itself militarily, is a reborn willingness to celebrate what makes Australia such a prosperous, free and open society. That, and an end to the hollow multi-culti pieties about all cultures and religions being equal

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On the day Whitlam was re-elected leader after Labor's 1975 election drubbing, Clyde Cameron noted in his diary that Gough 'looked uncomfortable ... chastened and worried'. It was a prescient appraisal. Dark and compromising secrets held in Moscow and Baghdad were soon to spill onto Australia's front pages

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Oh, the irony! The same Leftists who advocate 'punching Nazis' and proclaim themselves sworn foes of fascism have fervently embraced the exterminationist position in regard to Israel. Somewhere in Hell, Hitler and his pet Muslim, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, are cheering their latter day disciples

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It has sometimes been inferred that Albert Jacka’s politics were left-leaning. Whilst he never formally associated himself with a political party, nothing could be further from the truth. As with so many aspects of his later life, including his relationship with John Wren, myth raced far away ahead of fact

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A frequent critic of PM Anthony Albanese, filmmaker Nathan Livingstone exercises his right to free speech on X. Imagine his surprise upon discovering the eSafety Commissioner's taxpayer-funded snoops had gone to quite some trouble to identify and check out his wife, who goes by a different family name and is entirely apolitical online

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Today, Anzac Day, seems the moment to reflect on what Australians fought and died for in two world wars. Free speech, surely, and the right to speak one's mind were high on that list. Well today, as Australia remembers those who gave their all, eSafety Commissar Julie Inman Grant is scheming with the support of both major parties to take that freedom away

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Anzac Day now stands alone on the calendar as a symbolic bastion of national identity, an identity the Left wants expunged not only to create further room for its ever-growing collection of ersatz days of pride and mourning, but also to create a cultural tabula rasa that can be re-engineered according to ideology and fashion

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Australia's leading literary hoaxer continues to insist he is a bona fide Aborigine, hence entitled to all the indigenous-only grants, prizes, speaking gigs and perks he has pocketed during a lucrative career peddling shameless lies. He's at it again in his new book, this time flinging abuse at SBS and bulldust at everyone else

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According to Geoffrey Robertson, the most notable Australian item in the British Museum is the Gweagal Shield, which he maintains was 'plundered' at Botany Bay by James Cook, whom he also holds responsible the 'bullet hole' at its centre. Not a word of that is true, as the most cursory checking of readily available sources would have shown

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The pauses in Sandy's monologues were worthy of Beckett. Critics acclaimed  a ‘darkness reminiscent of Philip Larkin’,  ‘Ezra Pound with the lights out’ and a pervading ‘Checkovian melancholy’. Barry more prosaically described Sandy as the voice of a different and vanishing Melbourne 'talking in its sleep'

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Gun violence is almost non-existent among the licensed firearm owners, yet WA Police are diverting massive resources from violent crime to the bureaucratic micromanagement of farmers, target shooters, collectors and other licensed owners. With crime rising, the constabulary's first instinct has been to focus on those least likely to offend

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The first moment to get a Twitter account came when Elon Musk took over and prompted a mass exodus of the Left's in-house speech enforcers, eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant among them. Now that the Coalition has joined Labor in seeking to limit what Australians can say and see, getting an account is an essential act of defiance

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