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…
Law
Quote of the Week: Paul Elmer More, “Aristocracy and Justice”
“There is, in fact, a terrible confusion hidden in the New Morality, an ulcerous evil that is ever working inward. Sympathy, creating the desire for…
Quote of the Week: Lawrence Auster, “Erasing America”
“In the traditional or Classical-Christian view, life is experienced as participation in (or as rebellion against) a comprehensive order of existence – natural, social and…
Quote of the Week: Peter Viereck, “Unadjusted Man in the Age of Overadjustment”
“The meaningful moral choice is not between conforming and nonconforming but between conforming to the ephemeral, stereotyped values of the moment and conforming to the…
Award for National Self-Effacement at Sydney University’s Student Paper
Universities in Australia have been hot-beds of radicalism for decades since the social revolt of the 1960’s permeated all facets of academic and student life….
Bernardi Takes Knife for Excessive Honesty
South Australian Senator Cory Bernardi was recently forced to resign from the Opposition front bench, where he served as Parliamentary Secretary, after delivering an apparently controversial…
Quote of the Week: Barry Goldwater, “The Conscience of a Conservative”
“A civil right is a right that is asserted and is therefore protected by some law. It may be asserted by the common law, or…
Quote of the Week: Roger Scruton, “The Meaning of Conservatism”
“Nevertheless, before discussing the issue of Church and State, we must look a little more closely at the motive of religion, if only because some…
Quote of the Week: Roger Scruton, “The Meaning of Conservatism”
“The common law, for example, contains information that could not be contained in a legislative programme – information about conflicts and their resolution, about the sense of…
Quote of the Week: Enoch Powell, “Freedom and Reality”
“The methods which revolutionaries, thus turned conservative, adopt are much the same everywhere in every age. The student of history might find a wry interest…