Paul1405,
Don't give up your day job, leave trying to be funny to those with humour !

Peter, what is even more increadible is that the professor, after rejecting my idea of an article critical of the Home Insulation article, telling me to .... off and send my polemic rubbish to Quadrant, he told the VC he had asked asked other authors to counter my version.

However, just as the Royal Commisison agreed with what i said, so did they.

Seriously, the concept of academic excellence in humanities journals is a joke.

There are reason's there are no right wing think tanks and it's not because there aren't enough believers. Every time Pauline Hansen- for example- holds a meeting Antifa makes many people especially older Australians scared about attending. And no one does anything about it. At least the police crack down on disruptive practices at polling booths. Not that I want the police to stop protests. The sad thing there are genuine philosophical issues with certain positions in modern politics that aren't being discussed because of "fear". People are afraid at work, at home, and in their communities. You have to admire the woke cultures "cancel" achievements if not their methods.

I've always found the term 'politically conservative' to be a total contradiction in terms. Whatever has a conservative ever 'conserved'? With their hell-bent goal of monetary profit above everything else, there is precious little of our planet left to conserve. Then they have an unshakeable desire to return to some unnamed utopian period from the past that needs to be re-instated. As I often say: Gough Whitlam dragged Australia kicking and screaming into the 20th century, and Tony Abbott did everything he could to ensure we stayed there. Less 'conservatives' I say and more compassion and acceptance.

Hi Chris and thanks. The behaviour of the Professor you mention is possibly only the tip of the very disturbing ice-berg that Professor & no doubt plenty of others - including the ABC & most media - are doing their entrenched very best to ruin Australia and our futures even more than they have done already. Cheers PeterC

'Conservative' needs a clear definition while it changes across borders, as does 'liberal' and 'left', which are deemed to be negatives in the US, that ignores any 'conservatives' with socially liberal leanings (like the Liberal Party used to be... before blindly following the GOP and adopting US evangelical Christian nationalist baggage e.g. Christian 'rights', opposition to gay marriage, immigration restrictions, challenging abortion rights, etc.).

Further:

'Despite a number of political forces having emerged in Australia in recent decades to represent some policy positions more typical of a conservative outlook, such as One Nation and the Clive Palmer Party'

Not sure how racism and perceptions of corruption come to be 'conservative' ideals and says a lot about how low the ethical bar has been set, locally by the LNP, while promoting 'Christianity'?

Conservatism has morphed into a form white and/or Christian nationalism to mask socialism for corporate entities (and the top people) while the majority in electorates are led on by political PR of supposed conservative values and approving of harsh neo-liberal economics for following generations, including few government services or support and more private debt.