Australian universities are abandoning their role as custodians of Western civilisation in favour of a seemingly endless obsession with identity politics. I wrote recently about the University of...
Australian Research Council (ARC) grants to the humanities are disproportionately biased towards identity politics, according to a new research report released today by free market think tank the...
In nineteenth-century Australia, the early colonists had to decide what sort of institutions they were going to choose, if they going to be a protectionist or free trade set of colonies, if they...
If you were not already convinced that Australia’s humanities departments have truly lost their way, the latest research project from the faculty of arts and social sciences at the University of...
In the lead-up to Friday’s Global Climate Strike, enlightening emails have found their way into staff and student university inboxes. These communications are as illuminating as they are...
Recent scenes of chaos at the University of Queensland as pro- and anti-Hong Kong freedom demonstrators squared off on campus, and reports that the Chinese-based families of anti-communist...
This article from the August 2019 IPA Review is by Dr Bella d’Abrera, Director of the IPA’s Foundations of Western Civilisation program: Earlier this year, the marketing team at...
Should it be elected on the weekend of May 18, the Labor Party has promised to offer free sex change procedures, set up a tax payer-funded National Gender Centre, and appoint a new Commissioner...
How threatening to some academics is the idea of a program in Western civilisation being taught on their campuses? Enough that it’s worth going to court over. That’s right: the National Tertiary...
Last month the University of Sydney sacked a lecturer in politics who showed his class a swastika superimposed over the flag of Israel. Last week another University of...
It appears that in a bid to change public perception that the humanities produces research which is not only frivolous and completely useless for Australian society at large, a group of academics...
There’s little doubt that the prospect of spending a day out and about with friends shouting about Adani, fossil fuels and the Morrison government is infinitely more thrilling than enduring a...
