Australia has just taken a decisive step towards become an authoritarian state. Hobart’s Archbishop Julian Porteous and the entire Catholic Bishops Conference are being prosecuted for distributing a booklet supporting man+woman marriage, as defined in the Federal Marriage Act. They are accused of breaching Section 17 of the Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Act, which prohibits…
B.A. memoir a live topic Sir, In response to the recent material on Gerard Henderson’s memoir of B.A. Santamaria, I’d like to add a few facts about my own experience. Soon after I became a research fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs, Gerard approached me. I refused even to have a brief conversation with…
MORE CLOAK THAN DAGGER: One Woman’s Career in Secret Intelligence by Molly J. Sasson (Connor Court, Ballarat) Paperback: 336 pages ISBN: 9781925138726Price: AUD$29.95 Reviewed by Hal G.P. Colebatch After wartime service in the RAF, Molly Sasson worked for British intelligence and then, as the Cold War was getting under way, was recruited…
THE ROMANTIC ATTACK ON MODERN SCIENCE IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA: And Other Essays by Roger Sworder Angelico Press (Sophia Perennis). Paperback: 172 pages ISBN: 978-1621381471Price: AUD$28.99 Reviewed by Brian Coman From a perusal of the title of this new book by Roger Sworder, we may well ask why such a seemingly arcane…
