Australia - Quillette (Page 2)

Four Corners' Failure

In its treatment of gender clinics, the flagship investigative program of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation failed to present crucial evidence.

Bernard Lane

21 Jul 2023 · 11 min read

Gender’s Truth-Distortion Field

Across the English-speaking world, the discussion of trans rights is governed by taboos, sacred myths, and, in some cases, outright lies.

Sean Masters / Raimund Hume

10 Jun 2023 · 10 min read

The Inimitable Barry Humphries

Farewell to Australia’s best-known comic and social satirist.

Andrew Gleeson

25 Apr 2023 · 8 min read

Why AUKUS Matters

The deal is a belated response to the Chinese Communist Party’s mushrooming belligerence.

Aaron Sarin

20 Mar 2023 · 12 min read

Our Glorious Unhead of State

The idea of an Australian republic is attractive to some, but there's a strong case for a humble head of state.

Harry Lehmann

21 Sep 2022 · 4 min read

An Australian Perspective on Abortion

The closest example of a counterfactual to Roe v. Wade is Australia, where there is a federal system with no unifying law or ruling concerning abortion.

Dara Macdonald

8 Jul 2022 · 11 min read

Myth-making Isn’t the Right Way to ‘Indigenise’ Our Universities

Too often, the noble goal of reconciliation is being co-opted by those seeking to invent fake histories and advance politicized narratives.

Terry Moore and Carol Pybus

26 Jun 2022 · 16 min read

When Mental Health Education Makes Us Sick

There must be more in our mental health toolkit than the language and mechanisms for self-diagnosis.

Clare Rowe

7 Jun 2022 · 8 min read

Direct Instruction Works. So Why Is It Controversial?

In 2016, I was sitting in the classroom of a Melbourne school as Dr. Kerry Hempenstall described the early stages of a reading program. He projected a series of letters on the screen. First, he displayed an “f.” “This is an ‘f’,” he said. Then he displayed an “f” written

Greg Ashman

14 May 2022 · 7 min read

A Better Way to Lead Christians Away from Intimate Partner Violence

Of those surveyed for the IPV report, 17 percent of self-described Anglicans said they’d experienced IPV in the last 12 months, as compared to 18 percent for the general population.

Andrew Judd

18 Oct 2021 · 8 min read

Why Australia Opted for AUKUS

While Reuters reports that the French had ample warning the project was in trouble, the AUKUS announcement and the cancellation of the submarine contract nevertheless took them by surprise.

Sean Welsh

2 Oct 2021 · 11 min read

Revisiting ‘Wake in Fright’, A Peculiarly Australian Kind of Hell

Five decades after its release, Wake in Fright remains a brutally captivating reminder that modernity is just a thin veneer over the darker recesses of the human heart.

Ryan Anderson

28 Sep 2021 · 16 min read

Podcast #166: Josh Szeps on the Myth of Australia’s COVID ‘Concentration Camps’

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay interviews ABC presenter and podcaster Josh Szeps about Australia’s unique experience in managing the COVID pandemic—and the urban legends the country’s quarantine system has spawned among right-wing pundits on the other side of the world.