In order to resist the militant anti-religious ideologies of our age, we can derive valuable lessons from both the French Revolution of 1789 and the Cultural Revolution which swept the Western world during the 1960s, argues Patrick J. Byrne. B.A. “Bob” Santamaria (1915-1998) proposed in his seminal 1973 paper, Philosophies in Collision, that Western societies would be shaped by whichever of three contending…

Behind the anti-bullying moralising Sir, One afternoon recently, going down a Canberra street with my wife, I noticed on the front page of one of the newspapers a report that a major conference was to be held on that weekend on “bullying”, led by former Chief Justice of the Family Court, the Hon. Alastair Nicholson AO. Speakers at the conference want “bullying” to…

  THE BURIAL by Courtney Collins (Sydney: Allen and Unwin) Paperback: 304 pages ISBN: 9781743311875 RRP: AUD$27.95   Reviewed by Michael E. Daniel   Over the years, numerous Australian studies and novels have been written about male bushrangers. However, comparatively few have paid specific attention to female bushrangers. The Burial is a fictitious re-telling of the life of the remarkable Jessie Hickman, a…