Category Archives: History

Older and safer than the Melbourne Cup but Nanny knows best

Posted on 27 November, 2021 by C.L.

Wallabadah Cup track safety concerns end 169-year New Year’s Day picnic races tradition.

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Remembering how a communist scab nicked a great man’s job

Posted on 25 November, 2021 by C.L.

Keith Windschuttle: Stuart Macintyre and the Blainey Affair.

Posted in History, Hypocrisy of the left | 2 Comments

Dobber KKK’s inevitable entry into “death threats” panto

Posted on 25 November, 2021 by C.L.

WE’RE over the target so metaphorical bombs away. Australia’s political plutocrats are losing their minds about being called to account not only for their use and endorsement of violence, quackery, bigotry and propaganda for two well-paid years but, above all, … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, History, Politics | 4 Comments

We Won

Posted on 5 November, 2021 by C.L.

DESCRIBED by Spanish Civil War historians Chris Ealham and Michael Richards as “an assault on the public presence of Catholicism,” in August 1936 a communist firing squad “executed” the huge Monument of the Sacred Heart on the Cerro de los … Continue reading →

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Not sure I approve of the Red Ensign being waved upside down

Posted on 30 October, 2021 by C.L.

But apart from that – and the media lying about “hundreds of people” – this is wonderful. Speaking of the Red Ensign, I’ve been really delighted to see it revived as a people’s standard over the last 20 months. Until … Continue reading →

Posted in Freedom, History | 1 Comment

Covidians use Jews to justify liquidation of whistle-blower

Posted on 28 October, 2021 by C.L.

• News Corp brings the “rant” sledge: Covid-rant Fair Work deputy Lyndall Dean sanctioned. • Fairfax: Industrial commissioner backed claim COVID measures a step toward Holocaust. A Fair Work Commission deputy president who compared vaccine mandates to “medical apartheid” has … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Hypocrisy of the left | 5 Comments

“I wanted to win the war… but I did not want conscription”

Posted on 28 October, 2021 by C.L.

Here is an amazing excerpt from a 1962 ABC interview with Daniel Mannix. While looking for video resources relating to the plebiscites of 1916-1917, I chanced upon this NFSA clip. Aged 98, the famously sharp Archbishop of Melbourne has been … Continue reading →

Posted in Freedom, History | 10 Comments

Roots

Posted on 26 October, 2021 by C.L.
Posted in Culture, History | 4 Comments

Colin Powell

Posted on 21 October, 2021 by C.L.

HE was a big man on a big stage for a long time and I always liked him. Capable and resourceful, Colin Powell had a perfect military bearing and an equally perfect American life-story. Contrary to racist cliches – and … Continue reading →

Posted in History, US politics | 19 Comments

Celebrating Fr Emil Kapaun CMH

Posted on 29 September, 2021 by C.L.

Hero’s life is a reminder of what wearing a uniform should entail TONIGHT, U.S. CST, thousands will gather in Wichita, Kansas, at the Hartman Arena to celebrate Mass and pray the rosary in thanksgiving for the return to America of … Continue reading →

Posted in History, War and peace | 4 Comments

In their defence, they were invincibly ignorant. Or were they?

Posted on 28 September, 2021 by C.L.

William D. Rubinstein at Quadrant: The Incidence of Cannibalism in Aboriginal Society. A quaint theological notion and seldom encountered nowadays in the wild, the invincibly ignorant are those for whom theistic enlightenment or, more broadly, a rudimentary moral awareness that … Continue reading →

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Paul Keating Tugs The Forelock

Posted on 23 September, 2021 by C.L.

AS I was saying last week, defence and national security were never his strongest suits. Forty years after Bob Menzies began building or renovating Australia’s regional partnerships – of little interest back then to a Labor Party led by Soviet … Continue reading →

Posted in Defence and national security, History | 9 Comments

On George W. Bush and the Iraq War

Posted on 16 September, 2021 by C.L.

THE arc of conservatism-to-collaboration these days seems to be as predictable in political, as the transit of Venus is in planetary, science. A major difference in the case of the 43rd President of the United States is that no black … Continue reading →

Posted in History, War and peace | 4 Comments

Das Skype

Posted on 13 September, 2021 by C.L.

      The futuristic world as envisioned by Echte Wagner advertising cards, 1930. These German fantasies are as interesting for what they saw as here to stay as for what they didn’t. Does this aircraft look familiar? On the other hand, cutely, … Continue reading →

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Afghanistan: Perversity, Culpability and Just Deserts

Posted on 25 August, 2021 by C.L.

AS nobody ever said, “when we win the war in Afghanistan…” Think about it. At no time in the last 20 years did any ‘leader’ of the defunct Coalition of the Willing – political, military or otherwise – ever speak … Continue reading →

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