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Western Australian intellectual, commentator and author, Hal G.P. Colebatch, died on 9 September this year. Hal was a longstanding contributor to Life News, occasionally writing articles [...]

by the 16th century poet, Robert Southwell A Child My Choice Let folly praise what fancy loves, I praise and love that ChildWhose heart no thought, whose tongue no word, whose hand no deed [...]

Detailed scrutiny of WA’s Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2019 (VAD) continued in the Legislative Council during November, with only a handful of the bill’s 184 clauses being considered and [...]

Exactly twenty-five years ago, August 1994, Australia’s leading practitioner of late-term abortion gave a lecture at Monash University on “Abortion after 20 weeks”. A director of Planned [...]

This article, published in the May 2019 issue of Quadrant, was among the last articles that Hal Colebatch wrote. It builds upon another article, “Sweden’s mad masochism”, published in the May [...]

A review of Return of the Heroes: The Lord of The Rings, Star Wars and Contemporary Culture by Hal Colebatch, published by the Australian Institute for Public Policy. Return of the Heroes is a [...]

“I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to all who believe…” (Rom 1:16) There was once a society very similar to our own. Children were seen as a burden. They [...]

There is no faster way to get yourself classed as dim than by admitting that you hold religious belief, especially Christian belief. Anti-Catholicism used to be the anti-Semitism of [...]

To Hal Colebatch A heaving deck, a sail unfurled,The navigator’s art,Will find the measure of the worldAnd of the human heart. For the seafarer knows his fateDepends on judging trueBoth what the [...]

Sexual harassment, let alone sexual assault and rape, are tragic occurrences. However, the idea that any charge a woman brings must be automatically believed without question is morally wrong and [...]