Brian Ross wrote on Aug 25^th, 2025 at 5:02pm:


I see the point went way over your head Brian.

Obviously the communists and racists are not going to have a problem with Aborigines living in squalor and violence without any sense of self determination as a result of racist and communist government policies.

What first nations?

ProudKangaroo wrote on Aug 26^th, 2025 at 9:21am:

Quadrant. Lol.

The Quadrant.

Overall, we rate Quadrant Magazine Right Biased due to story selection that favors the right and Mixed for factual reporting for opposing the consensus of science and the use of poor sources. (D. Van Zandt 3/25/2018) Updated (02/16/2025)


https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/quadrant-magazine/

mothra wrote on Aug 26^th, 2025 at 9:44am:


The objectives of Quadrant and its online and book publishing offshoots are enshrined in the constitution of Quadrant Magazine Ltd, the non-profit company that publishes them. Our principal purpose is the defence of the values, practices, and institutions of a free and open society by fostering literary and cultural activity of the highest standard. In particular, we are committed to the preservation and advancement of the cultural freedom that is the distinctive component of traditional Western culture.

Our principal objective is as relevant today as it was in 1956 when the magazine was founded at the height of the Cold War. Quadrant originated as the journal of the Australian Association for Cultural Freedom. It was part of the international movement known as the Congress for Cultural Freedom that led to the birth of a number of similar publications across the Western intellectual world. So, from its beginnings, Quadrant was dedicated primarily to preserving and enhancing cultural freedom. As long as Quadrant exists, that will define the goal that its editors pursue.

Today, the magazine is a leading Australian journal whose contributors include past Australian Prime Ministers, distinguished philosophers, writers, academics, experts and policy makers. We publish essays on literature, music, art, film, television, theatre, architecture, as well as history, philosophy, religion, politics, Australian society and Western civilisation. Quadrant publishes materials of the highest standard that seek to encompass the cultural traditions that endure within, and enrich, our civilization. The culture we defend derives from the Classical and Christian traditions of Greece, Rome and Jerusalem, as well as those of the British sceptical Enlightenment, especially the writers of eighteenth-century Edinburgh.

Culture grows out of the long experience of contemplating the human condition through literature, art, philosophy and religion. “This has been Quadrant’s position since its beginnings,” our longest serving editor Peter Coleman AO has written, “and that is why it has always known, for example, that poetry matters.” Hence, Quadrant is not just a critic and commentator on the arts but a significant publisher of literary art itself. We publish around 300 poems a year, making it Australia’s most prolific publisher of poetry in magazine format. In terms of the number of pages published in our magazine and online, poetry is our second biggest category, headed only by news and opinion. In 2012 we published the widely acclaimed Quadrant Book of Poetry, an anthology of 487 poems from the magazine selected by our then literary editor, the late, great poet Les Murray. We also publish about 20 short stories a year.

The motives underpinning our efforts are the same as those confirmed by the Charities Definition Inquiry of 2001, which found that the charitable purpose of ‘advancing culture’, including through the arts, is one of the principal means by which a society binds together and transmits its beliefs and standards from one generation to another. Culture and the arts perform this function when they embody, reinforce and celebrate the values of society, when they confirm and exemplify the lessons simultaneously taught by the family, by the formal structures of education, and by the mass media in all their variety. Culture and the arts also provide the most effective means by which society can identify and distinguish itself from others.

In short, at a time when traditional Western and Australian cultural values are under increasing scrutiny and skepticism, we believe the cultural freedom that Quadrant defends and advances through our promotion of literature and the arts performs a critically important social function.
https://quadrant.org.au/about-us/

mothra wrote on Aug 26^th, 2025 at 10:30am:


So nothing to dispute what I posted, nothing about Aboriginal disadvantage and its causes, nothing about the inability to close the gap - just hiding behind some irrelevant blather about climate.

mothra wrote on Aug 26^th, 2025 at 10:30am:

Since you asked for the article, here it is:
Burn, Climate Witches, Burn
Peter Rees
Mar 24 2018
The Little Ice age was quite severe in Europe from 1550- 1700. After the prosperity and plenty of the medieval warm period, the LIA led to impoverishment, crop failure, starvation and a resurgence in witch burnings. Every misfortune was an excuse to accuse someone of being a witch working under the direction of Satan. Many of these accusations were the result of some calamity caused by an extreme weather event.

For example, in 1626 a hailstorm struck Germany and dropped a metre of hail. Two days later an Arctic front descended on Europe. Rivers froze, grapes on the vine ‘exploded’ and rye and barley crops were destroyed. Then came a severe frost the likes of which had not been seen for 500 years. Because all of this was so unusual it was determined to be ‘unnatural’ and there arose a cry that sorcerers and witches must be responsible and must be punished. Around 5000 were burnt in Germany alone.

It is estimated that across Europe there were at least 50,000 executions during this period, all carried out with the blessing of the educated and privileged. It was dangerous to be a sceptic because those who dissented from the hysteria were inevitably themselves accused of sorcery subject to the same punishments. Thus was any debate stifled.

Legal philosopher Jean Bodin in 1580 insisted that witchcraft was the most terrible problem facing humankind. Bodin championed the international attack against sceptics, such as physician Johann Weyer, who tried to bring some scientific rationality to the discussion by pointing out that “confessions” obtained through torture were both worthless and immoral. In response, Bodin accused Weyer of witchcraft.  Sceptics had to be wrenched out of society, he thundered, with any country tolerating them certain to be struck by plagues, famines and wars.

Sound familiar? If the modern parallels escape you, let us compare the dark past with what has happened over the last 30 years. And if James Cook University’s disgraceful shunning of Professor Peter Ridd comes to mind, so much the better.

Every perceived extreme weather event is attributed the evil CO2 causing global warming which causes the climate to go totally berserk and, of course, it’s those evil white capitalistic CO2 spewing industries which are the devil’s servants.
Global warming-caused climate change is the most terrible problem facing mankind.
Sceptical of the two points above? Well you must be one of those “climate denier”. Burning at the stake is no longer permitted, but being marginalized, ostracized and harassed is perfectly okay.
The scientific method of observation — hypothesis, develop testable predictions, gather data to test predictions, refine, alter or reject hypothesis — is not applicable to global warming “fact”. The “science is settled”, don’t you know, so no debate will be tolerated. Just send more grants, please, so warmists can continue to “prove” something they insist is already beyond dispute. As Macquarie University assures prospective students, the thriving field of climate-change validation opens up “career prospects and further research opportunities”.

Like the witch accusers of the Little Ice Age, warmists call every hurricane, tornado, fire, drought, flood, storm, etc., clear evidence of CO2-induced climate change. However, there is a mountain of evidence to show that extreme weather events have not increased over the past fifty-or-so years.

Astrophysicist Sallie Baliunas, who would have been burned in those former days of ignorance, fear and vindictive misplaced righteousness, talks of superstition’s tyranny then and now:
https://youtu.be/wcAy4sOcS5M?si=Sn1RI6YnKVjK0c41

Those who reject history’s lessons are, as they say, forever condemned to repeat them.
https://quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/climate-change/burn-climate-witches-burn/

You silly numpties stamp 'bias' on anything that doesn't fully agree with your own chants in your echo chambers.