Antipodean Reflections on America’s 4th July Celebrations, 2015
This may be one of the most ironic Independence Day anniversaries celebrated by our American cousins across the pond. With the recent media driven controversies…
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Acknowledgment of Nation
Earlier today, we made the point of emphasizing the importance of asserting a robust and unapologetic national identity in the face of external threats, that this…
The Sacred Grove: Natural Space and the Numinous
I A pervasive interest in the association of natural space with the sacred is a noticeable tendency in the work of some important Traditionalists. Tolkien,…
First “Shots Fired” in Australia’s Culture War, 2014
Cory Bernardi wrote a book late last year titled The Conservative Revolution (Connor Court, 2013). To most thinking Conservatives the more controversial element of the…
Classicism: Its Theory and Practice
I. The Question Anyone possessed with a literary enthusiasm has read a poem written in the last half-century or so that made them wince with…
Ideology In Our Vexicology
(Feature image: Postcard celebrating our Family of Nations (date unknown). Far from being ‘divisive’ or ‘irrelevant’, the Union Flag has been a unifying symbol for disparate peoples across the…
Quote of the Week: A. V. Dicey, “Introduction to the study of the Law of The Constitution”
“Yet even if we confine our observations to the existing condition of Europe, we shall soon be convinced that the ‘Rule of Law’ even in…
Australia Day 2013
There is much to reflect on this Australia Day, 26 January 2013. This Antipodean island continent that has remained, so far, strongly part of the…