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Bella d'Abrera

Director, Foundations of Western Civilisation Program

Level 2, 410 Collins St, Melbourne 3000 VIC

Dr Bella d’Abrera is the Director of the Foundations of Western Civilisation Program at the Institute of Public Affairs. She has a BA in History and Spanish from Monash University, an MA in Spanish from the University of St Andrews and a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge.

She is the author of a number of academic works and scholarly articles and specialises in education and skills, faith and society and culture, ideas and liberty and Western Civilisation. She appears frequently in the media and is a regular contributor to The Australian, the Daily Telegraph, The Herald Sun and the Spectator Australia.

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Identity Politics Will Destroy The Arts

Bella d'Abrera 8 October 2020 Ipa today, Opinion,

When Australia’s most generous musical theatre scholarship, the Rob Guest Endowment, recently published the names of thirty semi-finalists who were in the running to win a $50,000 scholarship...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia

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Cross-Curriculum Priorities and the Teaching of History in NSW

Bella d'Abrera 6 October 2020 Education and skills, Ipa today,

The Institute of Public Affairs is committed to undertaking research to promote the importance of Western Civilisation in Australian society. The Foundations of Western. Civilisation Program was...

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Getting It All Arts-About

Bella d'Abrera 18 September 2020 Ipa today, Opinion,

At a time when Australia has fallen into its first recession in 30 years, you would hope that the Federal government would be spending the public’s money wisely and exercising some vigilance on...

Originally appeared in The Daily Telegraph

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Stop Indoctrinating Kids

Bella d'Abrera 1 September 2020 Education and skills, Ipa today,

The news that some schools in NSW are bringing in extra teachers to help 6000 Year 12 students meet minimum standards in reading, writing and numeracy skills to pass their HSC should ring very...

Originally appeared in The Daily Telegraph

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Checked Out: When Activism Quarantines Common Sense

Bella d'Abrera 13 August 2020 Government services, Ideas and liberty,

If you want to know what is going wrong in Victoria, all you need do is look at a job being advertised on Seek by the state’s Department of Justice and Community Safety. The department wishes to...

Originally appeared in The Australian

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‘Sonic Anti-Colonialism’ Sounds A Bit Off

Bella d'Abrera 6 August 2020 Education and skills, Ipa today,

Last week, Federal Education Minister Dan Tehan announced that the government will be dishing out $90.5 million worth of taxpayers’ money to 100 of the 690 applicants who applied to the Australian...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia

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Poll: Mainstream Australians Support Statues Of Captain Cook

Bella d'Abrera 29 July 2020 Ipa today, Media releases,

“The stark divide between mainstream Australians and the those who seek to use identity politics as a vehicle to divide Australians has been made clear yet again with a new poll finding a...

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So Buildings Are Racist Too, Now

Bella d'Abrera 2 July 2020 Ipa today, Opinion,

Even though Victoria’s goldrush city of Ballarat is purported to be the state’s largest inland city, it is safe to say that it has more than its fair share of statues and monuments which honour...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia

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Don’t Know Much About…

Bella d'Abrera 20 June 2020 Education and skills, Ipa today,

Yesterday Education Minister Dan Tehan announced that university students will now be paying up to $14,500 per year to study the humanities, an increase of over 110 per cent. On all likelihood...

Originally appeared in The Daily Telegraph

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Universities Always Said We Were Racists, Now Look At Their Dilemma

Bella d'Abrera 15 June 2020 Education and skills, Ipa today,

Australian universities are in quite the pickle. Not only are they watching as potentially $12bn in revenue from foreign student fees slips away, but they are also being accused of racism by the...

Originally appeared in The Australian

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The Problem With ‘Topple The Racists’

Bella d'Abrera 13 June 2020 Ipa today, Opinion,

Last weekend, a mob tied a rope to a statue of a 17th century Bristol merchant, philanthropist and slave trader called Edward Colston, pulled it off its pedestal, dragged it through the streets...

Originally appeared in The Daily Telegraph

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To Be Released: Artefacts and Fiction

Identity Politics Will Destroy The Arts

Cross-Curriculum Priorities and the Teaching of History in NSW

Getting It All Arts-About

Stop Indoctrinating Kids

Checked Out: When Activism Quarantines Common Sense

‘Sonic Anti-Colonialism’ Sounds A Bit Off

Poll: Mainstream Australians Support Statues Of Captain Cook

So Buildings Are Racist Too, Now

Don’t Know Much About…

Universities Always Said We Were Racists, Now Look At Their Dilemma

The Problem With ‘Topple The Racists’

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