Author Archives: P. R. Stephensen

P. R. Stephensen

The Australia First Manifesto

Edward Quicke, Portrait of Percy Reginald Stephensen, 1945

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Fifty Points For An Australia-First Party After The War These Fifty Points of Policy for an Australia-First Party After the War, first printed in The Publicist, Sydney, on 1st May, 1940, are herein elaborated as a primer for the use of Australian students of National Reconstruction. Read more …

Published: November 20, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Australia, Australia First, North American New Right, P. R. Stephensen, reprints, white nationalism | Comments closed

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The Foundations of Culture in Australia:
An Essay Towards National Self-Respect (Excerpts from Part One)

P. R. Stephensen

1,752 words

§ 1 Genius of the Place

Australia is a unique country. All countries are unique, but this one is particularly so. Visitors, such as D. H. Lawrence, have discerned a spiritual quality of ancient loveliness in our land itself. Read more …

Published: November 20, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Australia, Australian culture, book excerpts, culture, literature, nationalism, North American New Right, P. R. Stephensen, reprints | Comments closed

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A Reasoned Case Against Semitism

P. R. Stephensen

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P. R. Stephensen

It is often arbitrarily assumed, by persons who are themselves irrationally prejudiced in favor of Semitism, that Antisemitism is based on irrational prejudices. Probably very few political students appreciate the fact that Politics is an art rather than a science, and that prejudice enters into political judgments, just as it enters into aesthetic judgments. When I say that I like Gruner’s paintings, and that I do not like Epstein’s sculptures, I give verbal expression to value-judgments which cannot be proved wrong, by any process of logic. Read more …