Bella d’Abrera

Sex and gender in the British Empire, anyone?

28 October 2017 9:00 am

In 440 BC, the Greek historian Herodotus of Halicarnassus broke with tradition by collecting primary sources and then systematically and…

Teachers as activists

29 August 2017 11:33 am

Earlier this month, parents at Forestville Public School in the Northern beaches were invited to watch their children perform in…

Taxpayers notes

17 June 2017 9:00 am

Wasting millions on Humanities grants This month, a number of university departments across Australia will be filled with the sound…

Killing the university

2 June 2017 7:55 am

In March, the University of Melbourne Student Union ran an “intersectional and student-led workshop around the ways in which privilege and unconscious bias…

The Left aren’t just giving Australia Day the arse…

2 February 2017 7:08 am

Last Friday, the University of Western Australia Student Guild voted overwhelmingly in favour of changing the date of Australia Day and proposed to…

What’s so bad about January 26?

26 January 2017 8:26 am

This week, Warren Mundine proposed that Australia Day should be moved from January 26 to January 1, because the 26th…

A new breed of ‘historian’

7 January 2017 9:00 am

In the next few weeks, thousands of young Australians, having just finished 12 years of schooling, will be preparing themselves…

A new breed of ‘historian’

5 January 2017 3:00 pm

In the next few weeks, thousands of young Australians, having just finished 12 years of schooling, will be preparing themselves…

Blue Poles: sell this monument to madness

14 October 2016 3:26 pm

Jackson Pollock’s Blue Poles must be sold. Not because it’s a bad painting or because it fails the Australian test,…