Sir Henry Parkes’s Liberal-Ethnic Nationalism
This is the text of a presentation given to the Sydney Traditionalist Forum on 5 December 2020 by Dr. Frank Salter, as part of the…
Constitution
Quote of the Week: Russell Kirk, “The Conservative Mind”
“Constitutions cannot be made, says Brownson, agreeing with de Miastre: they are the product of slow growth, the expression of a nations historical experience, or…
Justice Antonin Scalia, Requiescat in Pace
We offer our condolences to our American confederates on this day, for the passing of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court of the…
2015 Symposium – Frank Salter
Australian Conservatism after Abbott: The Need for Social Movements Following the replacement of Tony Abbott by Malcolm Turnbull as prime minister, some conservatives are asking…
Quote of the Week: Paul Gottfried, “Encounters”
“Of all political attitudes, antimonarchism in the modern age has always struck me as the most bizarre. How can one get annoyed over a middle…
Quote of the Week: Hugh Cecil, “Conservatism”
“The centre of the Constitution is the Monarchy. Probably everyone would agree in naming the Monarchy as an institution which is was desirable to preserve,…
Quote of the Week: Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, “Leftism Revisited”
“Democracy is a political form, not a system of government. It has no social content, although the word is frequently misused in that sense. It…
The Maximal Monarchy: A Monarchist’s Case Against Crowned Republicanism
¶ It’s now been almost two months since Tony Abbott’s Liberal government came to power over the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd-led Labor Party. The relative swing from left to…
Centralisation Watch: Local Government Referendum a Power Grab, says S.G.S.
The president of the Samuel Griffith Society, former High Court Justice, the Hon. I. D. F. Callinan A.C. has issued a statement calling for opposition to…
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…