A book in a Catholic school library which labels Robert Menzies a tyrant in the company of Pol Pot and Saddam Hussein ought to be withdrawn – see report of incident here. I’m no friend of George Brandis’s (although I have been), but my old school debating colleague is right on the money when he […]
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Catholic school and teachers union flunk education test
Thursday, October 26th, 2006History will be unkind to those who do not write it
Wednesday, July 19th, 2006Winston Churchill is supposed to have said: “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”. But when and where did he say it? Without knowing that, do we really know he said it? This is a lesson Australian historians may not have learnt.
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2005I’ve been following the Andrew Fraser issue with some interest, and amusement. We published a defence of his right to publish today. Actually, more precisely it was a condemnation of Deakin for refusing to publish him because they received a legal threat. We would have published an edited extract as well, but received the original […]
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