Volume 2. ‘The Castle’ in 18th Century Australia
Just six months after the arrival of the First Fleet in Botany Bay in 1788, one event in particular demonstrates just how important the concept of the rule of law…
The British Heritage Of Our Freedoms: The Untold Stories
As part of the Foundations of Western Civilisation Program, the Institute of Public Affairs has produced a series of short films which explain the important role that British Institutions...
Volume 1. The Magna Carta in Australia
The Magna Carta is the founding document of individual liberty, the rule of law, and parliamentary democracy. It is the very document which planted the seeds of political freedom for…
Taxpayers Notes: Wasting Millions On Humanities Grants
This month, a number of university departments across Australia will be filled with the sound of popping corks and clinking glasses, as 91 jubilant Future Fellows and their colleagues...
Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
School’s now focus firmly on what divides us, not what we share in common
Kevin Donnelly in The Australian on Tuesday argued that it’s now clear that the education sector’s ‘politically correct embrace of diversity and difference – the new code for multiculturalism –...
What’s So Bad About January 26?
This week, Warren Mundine proposed that Australia Day should be moved from January 26 to January 1, because the 26th marks the arrival of the first white settlers at Sydney…
A New Breed Of ‘Historian’
In the next few weeks, thousands of young Australians, having just finished 12 years of schooling, will be preparing themselves for what should be their first, exciting foray into higher…
A Political Lesson For Australian Politics From Brexit And Trump
In Reflections on the Revolution in France published in 1790, Edmund Burke concluded that “A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation”...
Green-Left Legerdemain Doesn’t Make Religion Relevant
It has long been obvious that the political agenda of some Catholic organisations and schools rest solidly within the Green-left advocacy model, particularly in its increasing reliance on identity...
The New Iconoclasm
Two anniversaries that fall in October, both important for lovers of western civilisation, highlight the new iconoclasm at the heart of modern western progressives. The first date is Columbus...
The Culture Of Freedom: New Book By Dr Kevin Donnelly AM
The Institute of Public Affairs Foundations of Western Civilisation Program aims to defend and extend Australians’ understanding of the influential, historical role of the West in...
The Culture of Freedom
How can we understand other cultures if we do not have a firm grasp of our own? This is the question both posed and answered by Dr Kevin Donnelly in…