The Gentle Wildness of Tasmania
Tasmania looks like wilderness from afar. Up close, it is lush, intimate, and unexpectedly generous—a place that feels familiar, yet entirely its own.
Iona Italia
· 13 min read
Australia
A collection of 88 posts
Why Is Substack Caught Up in Australia’s Social Media Ban?
Australia’s under-16s social media ban has proven wildly popular among parents, but nevertheless it was ill conceived and comes with worrying trade-offs.
Dara Macdonald
· 7 min read
A Lucky History
Tony Abbott argues that Australia’s history provides a lot to be proud of.
Sean Welsh
· 12 min read
Australia and the Clash of Worlds
The convicts and soldiers who arrived in January 1788 had not just traversed a vast distance across the oceans; they had effectively journeyed back in time.
Iona Italia
· 7 min read
A Self-Conscious Nation
The Australian identity 125 years after Federation.
Adam Wakeling
· 15 min read
An Enlightened Beginning
An Australia Day reflection on the founding of a ‘free land.’
Tony Abbott
· 5 min read
A Different Kind of Palaver
What the Adelaide Writers’ Week fiasco reveals about the moral economy of cultural elites.
Juliet Moses
· 8 min read
The Gentle Wildness of Tasmania
Tasmania has all the majesty of other windswept high-latitude places, but it has always been less barren, more hospitable, more generous in its beauty.
Iona Italia
· 13 min read
On Ten Years
A speech marking the tenth anniversary of Quillette, delivered by founder and editor-in-chief Claire Lehmann in Sydney.
Claire Lehmann
· 4 min read
The Chanukah Terror Attack in Australia—and the Antisemitism Behind It
A video essay examining the Chanukah terror attack at Bondi Beach, the acts of courage that unfolded in its aftermath, and the ideological and institutional failures that allowed antisemitism in Australia to escalate unchecked.
Iona Italia
· 5 min read
What the Bondi Attack Reveals About Australia’s Immigration Policy
The Akram case exposes with brutal clarity that time does not ensure assimilation. Being born in Australia does not guarantee allegiance.
Claire Lehmann
· 5 min read
Australia’s Selective Blindness
The refusal to discuss Islamic antisemitism in Australia endangers Jews and threatens social cohesion.
Alan Davison
· 7 min read
The Hatred We Must Name
We have ignored, enabled, downplayed, and pandered to vicious antisemitism for too long. The victims of the Bondi massacre paid the price.
Iona Italia
· 4 min read
From the Goldberg’s to the Icebergs
Bondi is Australia, Australia is Bondi Beach.
Tim Harcourt
· 3 min read
Bondi Was Not a Surprise: How Antisemitism Was Normalised in Australia
Why the Bondi attack was not an aberration, but the consequence of years of tolerated antisemitism across Australian public life.
Jack Pinczewski
· 5 min read