59th Round Table Forum of Western Heritage Australia. Evening of the 30th May 2023. Held in the Henry Carmichael Theatre, Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts, 280 Pitt St, Sydney NSW.
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we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender
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Burke did not oppose liberty; he just had a different view on how it was best realised. Liberty based on centuries of evolution of the common law and social norms was superior to the abstract French Rights of Man.
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55th Round Table Forum of Western Heritage Australia. Evening of the 21st June 2022. Held in the Henry Carmichael Theatre, Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts, 280 Pitt St, Sydney NSW.
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It is better that ten guilty persons go free than that one innocent suffer.
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A word of clarification on the meaning of sovereignty of the individual.
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That half of the Afghan population who are women might have a particular reason to dread a renewed Taliban regime in their country as it would deprive them of every single advantage gained since 2001. Civilisation, as we see it, means the freedom to seek and achieve one’s potential. The Taliban are enemies of that civilisation.
They proved this beyond all doubt when in 2001 they dynamited the “Buddhas of Bamiyan.” They were 2000 years old and belonged to the world!
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Australians largely take their freedoms for granted, not realising the importance of the unbroken chain back to the English common law, the key agreements, and the system of governance which underpin that liberty. How fragile are those freedoms? It is not inconceivable that they could disappear in a generation if the cultural memory is lost, supplanted by disruptive ideologies or loss of pride in our Western inheritance.
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Reflections on OrwellAuthor: David Duffy A little while ago, I chaired a talk on George Orwell and his significance in the year 2021. “Orwellian” is now part of our language and cultural hemisphere. In my vote of thanks, I quoted the early 19th century Russian monk Pechorin in his letter to Alexander Herzen, the famous […]
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For more than thirty years, appointed Governors (Phillip, Hunter, King, Bligh, Macquarie, and Brisbane) exercised powers in the colony of New South Wales (N.S.W.) which exceeded those of the King of England. These powers would have been illegal in England unless ratified by an Act of Parliament.
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Britain doesn’t feel very free at the moment. And that’s bad news for Britain, certainly, but also for the world. Because – uniquely – British identity and our long heritage is rooted in the ideal of individual liberty.
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On this day 330 years ago in 1689, Royal ascent was given to the English Bill of rights which laid out the rights of parliament, the limitations on the Monarch as well as certain civil rights and liberties of subjects, such the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment. The Bill was presented to William of […]
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Examines the positive net benefit of the British Empire – Science & technology, freedom from disease, global trade, destruction of the slave trade, parliamentary democracy, and individual liberty as well as protection from communist, fascist and other tyrannical “utopias.”
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Rowan Atkinson argues, in his inimitable style, for unfettered free speech with the right to offend. Yet he acknowledges that freedom comes with responsibility.
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