Baldwin Zane, rococo raconteur, impish impresario, director of the Ern Malley Writers’ Festival, is in a jam. Assembling his prose and poetaster tableaux, a Writer’s Festival Emergency is declared! Like the proverbial pub with no beer, the Malley is in danger of being a Writers’ Festival … without writers! Alas for Zane, the deep-thought Generals…
Australia and Canada have many things in common, but perhaps not as many as might have been. If things had been different, France might well have claimed Australia, or part of Australia. For some time, France seemed likely to claim Western Australia, for example. Britain claimed WA when it created a settlement in Albany in…
Part Three of three parts Karl Schmude delivered the following article as a paper at the Australian Chesterton Conference, held at Campion College Australia in Old Toongabbie, on October 19, 2019. The conference theme was Reclaiming the Economy: A Chesterton Alternative. What have these peculiar characters (the man who eats his hat, the one who…
As Eastern Australia burned, the anthropogenic climate-change rhetoric reached an hysterical level. Two examples are the climate protests in Melbourne (where protestors stood in the rain!); and the case of a woman placing the remains of her ruined home near Parliament House, blaming the Government for the fires. Such events, shown in the mainstream media,…
