MUSIC AS AN ART by Roger Scruton Bloomsbury Continuum, Sydney Hardcover: 272 pages Price: AUD$50 Reviewed by David James Writing about music is often an unrewarding task. It is an art form that leaves the philosopher or critic either confined to talking about technicalities, or in generalities that are too abstract to say much about…
HOW POLITICAL CORRECTNESS IS DESTROYING EDUCATION AND YOUR CHILD’S FUTURE by Kevin Donnelly Wilkinson Publishing, Melbourne Paperback: 240 pages Price: AUD$29.99 Reviewed by Christopher Murray Readers who follow the national conversation about education will be very familiar with Kevin Donnelly. He has published several books, writes often for daily newspapers, appears on television and was…
The triumph of Liberal Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who single-handedly led the Liberal Party to victory on May 18, will go down as the greatest win since Labor’s Paul Keating defeated John Hewson 25 years ago. Labor’s heavy focus on climate change flopped in Queensland, the nation’s most decentralised state, and the huge campaign to…
The extraordinary tributes paid to Bob Hawke, the longest-serving Labor Prime Minister of Australia, who died on May 16, reflect the fact that Bob Hawke was a man with the common touch, who won four elections until being deposed in a coup by his successor as Labor Prime Minister, Paul Keating. Bob Hawke, at the…
