The valiant knights of old

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The medieval knights defended Europe, their culture and religion from the marauding Muslim sword.

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‘The most feared Templar chant ever recorded — a sacred sound of power, faith, and divine war. This dark Gregorian choir captures the intensity of medieval holy battles, where the voices of the Knights Templar echoed before the clash of steel.

Deep male chants, haunting harmonies, and massive cathedral reverb create an atmosphere of fear, devotion, and unbreakable belief. This is more than music — it is a ritual, a warning, and a prayer that once struck fear into the enemies of God.

Feel the presence of ancient warriors standing before battle, united in faith, as their voices rise into the darkness.’

Australia’s judiciary tilted against men

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Wrongly convicted

– Are Australia’s rape reforms sending innocent men to jail?

Bettina Arndt, Aug 05, 2026

Three years ago, Simon, a Sydney engineer, was accused of a home invasion — “aggravated break and enter with intent to commit a serious indictable offence.” His intent was rape, according to police. He’d never even met the woman who accused him, and police showed no interest in his irrefutable evidence that he couldn’t have done it.

They tried to put him away for 20 years. He self-represented through 20 court appearances, won twice in the District Court — with costs against the Crown — and then again when the DPP’s appeal failed, achieving another costs order, in a case significant enough to make the NSW Law Reports. Remarkable, for an unrepresented litigant.

As he said in his first letter to me, these wins prove the case was unfounded — “[the cases] prove I am innocent apparently.” But, he added, “I don’t feel innocent.”

Read the rest HERE . . .

Irreformable feminism

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Feminism Cannot be Reformed

It must be destroyed, root and branch

Janice Fiamengo, Aug 05, 2026

Feminism poses a threat to everything good in western culture, perhaps especially to women’s capacity to love, reason, and exercise self-restraint.

I was an adherent of feminism before I became a critic. I have felt its euphoric exultation and its self-flattering conviction of moral purity. Later, I recognized its hubris and moral hollowness.

I am familiar with feminism’s core texts, from Mary Wollstonecraft to Mary Anne Franks, having studied them and believed in them for years. I understand the psychology and the history of the movement because I lived inside it for many years.

Unlike others who have criticized feminism’s excesses, I contend that although there are some moderate feminists, there was never a moderate feminism inspired by reasonable goals and untainted by anti-male fanaticism. Feminism did not go wrong at some point in history, whether after the Second Wave or before, whether in anti-sex or pro-sex zeal. It was always rooted in resentment and envy, warped by utopian longings and false notions of female moral superiority.

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Soccer, too, has been degraded

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I watched the disgusting exhibition of dirty play and bad sportsmanship in the World Cup Final between Spain and Argentina.

Most of the dirty play and bad sportsmanship came from the disgraceful Argentinian team.

Whenever Spain looked like making a break, the Argentinians committed a foul. I have never seen such a disgusting display of cowardly sportsmanship.

They shamed themselves and their country.

Between 1959 and 1962, I attended a Catholic secondary school that played soccer. I was centre forward in the school team. Playing fairly and with sportsmanship was as important as your skills. A dirty player, one routinely penalised for ‘in the back’, tackling off the ball, and other such misdemeanours, simply wasn’t chosen. To persist in dirty play on the field would have you sent off.

Tripping, kicking the opponent, grabbing him or his clothes, pushing during a corner kick, and holding, as the Argentinians did, were absolutely not tolerated. Indeed, such actions were non-existent at that time.

I wasn’t the only one disgusted. Some want Argentina out of the World Cup: ‘Kick Argentina out of the World Cup’ petition nearly breaks Guinness World Record

Bondi, Mr Albanese, Bondi

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The empirical evidence of Islamic terrorism and what happens when Islamic migration is allowed into a Western country is overwhelming.

The truth, however, for the left is of no concern; ideological hegemony is. Ideological power goes before all else, even before the integrity of one’s culture and the safety of its citizens.

Prime Minister Albanese and his government are betraying Australia and its people on all fronts.

Spirituality and Modern Australian Fiction

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I had not heard of Russell Guy before reading this essay. Two things strike me in this engaging reflection. First, he tells the story of the writer struggling to have his writing known in a time when ideology predominates over truth and worth. Second, he presents a rebalancing of the narrative about European settlement and its effect on Aboriginal people. The inevitable historical meeting was not one-sided, and Christianity is given its rightful place. I’ve noted the titles of his two novels with the intention of reading them.

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Russell Guy: ‘Two things of which I’m certain: a nation that rejects its Christian foundation will go the way of Great Britain, and fiction that focuses on the spiritual consequences of individual lives can effect its redemption.

Spirituality and Modern Australian Fiction

Russell Guy, Quadrant, Jul 08 2026

Adapted from talks given by the author at the Alice Springs Public Library and Winton Writers Festival in June 2026.

I’m interested in spirituality and modern Australian fiction because that’s how my writing has developed and been influenced. The last three verses of Henry Lawson’s ‘The Good Samaritan’, written in 1904, is, I believe, because he was so often desperately in need of one, a classic example:

‘Once on a time there lived a man,’
       But he has lived alway,
And that gaunt, good Samaritan
       Is with us here to-day;
He passes through the city streets
       Unnoticed and unknown,
He helps the sinner that he meets —
       His sorrows are his own.

He shares his tucker on the track
       When things are at their worst
(And often shouts in bars outback
       For souls that are athirst).
To-day I see him staggering down
       The blazing water-course,
And making for the distant town
       With a sick man on his horse.

He’ll live while nations find their graves
       And mortals suffer pain —
When colour rules and whites are slaves
       And savages again.
And, after all is past and done,
       He’ll rise up, the Last Man,
From tending to the last but one —
       The good Samaritan.’

Verse as good as any Bob Dylan has written.

In 1978, I wrote a story, published in Tracks surfing magazine, called What’s Rangoon to You is Grafton to Me. I adapted it to radio for Sydney’s 2JJ and it crossed-over to Radio National. Since then, it’s been pirated via the Internet and a perpetual link at the ABC.

Rangoon contains glimpses into New Age spirituality, with fragments of Christianity and Islam, as the anonymous protagonist, driving all-night from Brisbane to Sydney, ponders the Second Coming of “you know Who”, while jellyfish flap across the Pacific Highway in a nod to surrealism.

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The Desecration of the Australian War Memorial

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The Capture by Stealth of the AWM

Robert Hill, Quadrant, 20 July 2026

“A major feature on Frontier Wars will piss off the majority of Australia’s 600,000 veterans.” So warned Major General Greg Melick in 2022, when he was National President of the RSL and a member of the Australian War Memorial Council.

“The fundamental element is that the War Memorial was built in sacred recognition of wars that Australians fought as a nation, unified against an external foe. It is not to be a memorial for conflicts within Australia,” Barnaby Joyce said in 2022.

These statements expose the question the Memorial has never honestly answered: if a major Frontier Wars display would so profoundly disturb the veterans whose service the Memorial exists to honour, why has the policy been advanced without a clear public announcement, published legal advice, or a frank explanation of how it fits within the Australian War Memorial Act?

I am not a military man. I do not claim the authority of service. But my love for this country could not be greater. I know sacrilege when I see it.

The Australian War Memorial is the last place still standing largely outside the ideological capture of our national institutions. It is where politics is meant to fall silent before the dead; where the nation goes not to be lectured, corrected or re-educated, but to remember those who served and those who died.

Yet we are living inside a national fog of exaggeration and fabrication surrounding the so-called Frontier Wars. Claims unsupported by military reality are forced upon us as settled truth, even where no war existed.

The more immediate question is how this contested project became institutional policy. It was not advanced by open argument, but by stealth: through an ideological sequence and in a vacuum of justification. No clear public mandate was sought. No legal reasoning was published. No serious explanation was offered to veterans or the wider public as to why a contested account of colonial violence belongs within the statutory war memorial.

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The weasels, ferrets and stoats occupy Toad Hall

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Is the culture war over, with victory going to the Marxists? Well-known social commentator Kevin Donnelly thinks so. The evidence seems to support him. A true conservative sees nothing but a wasteland before him – the wreckage and debris of the traditional, Christian society we were so used to. But we need not despair. If I can paraphrase Rousseau: What has been taken away from us, can by the same means be taken back.

Badger, Toad, Ratty, and Mole, with their trusty weapons, to the rescue!

Culture War? It’s Over and We Lost

Kevin Donnelly, Quadrant, Jun 09 2026

Two essays in The Australian, one by Greg Sheridan titled ‘How relentless progressive orthodoxy is politicising life and crushing debate in Australia’ and another by Henry Ergas, ‘ABC’s Tame shame is an abject breach of trust’ are well worth reading.

Both highlight the way institutions including the Climate Change Authority, the Human Rights Commission, the Australian Law Reform Commission, schools and universities and the ABC have been captured by a progressive, cultural-left ideology.

While detailed and persuasive, there is nothing new in what Sheridan and Ergas complain about.  The cultural Left’s long march through the institutions has been ongoing since the expression was made famous by the German Marxist Rudi Dutschke during the cultural revolution of the mid-to-late Sixties. The Australian author Alan Barcan describes the Sixties’ cultural revolution as promoting an ideology that “favoured relativism [where] absolute beliefs, based on Christianity or liberal humanism, became unfashionable. Politically, a new radicalism and a new concern for minorities emerged”.

While Dutschke is associated with the ‘long march’, it was the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci who earlier introduced the concept of cultural hegemony. Gramsci describes cultural hegemony as the way capitalist society and the bourgeoise dominate by controlling society’s institutions. Such domination leads to false consciousness where, even though they are the victims of an oppressive and self-serving system, citizens believe all is well.  Women happy being wives and mothers are deluded by a culture that is chauvinistic and male dominated.

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