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Insights from Quadrant
Geoffrey Blainey hails
The Burden of Culture
The Burden of Culture
Geoffrey Blainey, Australia’s foremost historian, writes in praise of Gary Johns’ Burden of Culture, published by Quadrant books:
“Gary Johns is a brave and observant writer on Aboriginal cultures, politics, and contrasting ways of life. 
Unlike many experts, he knows what cannot be and what must be reformed. His Burden of Culture is an impressive book and a gold mine of surprising information: it is already affecting the nation’s debate on Indigenous affairs.”
After the failure of the Voice referendum and the patronising conceit of its promoters that more jobs for the indigenous elite would remedy the despair of remote communities, Burden of Culture is the antidote to magical thinking. As Johns writes,
The Aboriginal industry fails to address the needs of the 20 per cent minority of their population who still live in despair. Those who remain in remote and rural Australia are being asked to build a new Jerusalem on poor lands with ancient cultural habits. This captive minority needs to reach out, literally, but the politics of their leaders keeps them locked where they are.
Insights from Quadrant
A woman’s standard for
standard-issue women
standard-issue women
Peter O’Brien writes:
Some time ago, under questioning by Senator Alex Antic, permanent head of the Department of Health and Aged Care Dr Brendan Murphy was unable to furnish a definition of a woman. That question underlies a myriad of protests by genuine, biologically bona fide women seeking to protect their spaces.
And now we see this question at the heart of a Federal Court case involving developer and owner of the 
Giggle website, Sall Grover, and a male with surgically snipped and rearranged genitals who goes by the name of Roxanne Tickle (left), purports to be a woman and is demanding six-figure damages for the alleged harm of being excluded from the site and forum. Who’d have thought it would come to this!
I am totally against identity politics and the proliferation of flags — gay, trans, Aboriginal, BLM, Extinction Rebellion, Palestine, what have you.
But it seems to me that if women are going to fight for their rights, they too should have a flag. So I have devised a suitable logo for a Woman’s Pride flag. It is one that cannot be misappropriated by trans activists and is based on the answer that Dr Murphy should have been able to provide without a moment’s hesitation: A woman is an adult human beingwho, strictly speaking, has no Y chromosome, but for practical purposes we may think of her as generally having two X chromosomes.
Atop this column is my suggestion for a Woman’s Pride flag. Below, the IPA’s Dr Bella D’Abrera on Murphy’s tongue-tied, waffle-o-matic, 78-word “definition” of a woman. And here’s a further report on Tickle Vs. Giggle
Insights from Quadrant
Geoffrey Blainey hails
The Burden of Culture
The Burden of Culture
Geoffrey Blainey, Australia’s foremost historian, writes in praise of Gary Johns’ Burden of Culture, published by Quadrant books:
“Gary Johns is a brave and observant writer on Aboriginal cultures, politics, and contrasting ways of life. Unlike many experts, he knows what cannot be and what must be reformed. His Burden of Culture is an impressive book and a gold mine of surprising information: it is already affecting the nation’s debate on Indigenous affairs.”
After the failure of the Voice referendum and the patronising conceit of its promoters that more jobs for the indigenous elite would remedy the despair of remote communities, Burden of Culture is the antidote to magical thinking. As Johns writes,
The Aboriginal industry fails to address the needs of the 20 per cent minority of their population who still live in despair. Those who remain in remote and rural Australia are being asked to build a new Jerusalem on poor lands with ancient cultural habits. This captive minority needs to reach out, literally, but the politics of their leaders keeps them locked where they are.
Insights from Quadrant
A woman’s standard for
standard-issue women
standard-issue women
Peter O’Brien writes:
Some time ago, under questioning by Senator Alex Antic, permanent head of the Department of Health and Aged Care Dr Brendan Murphy was unable to furnish a definition of a woman. That question underlies a myriad of protests by genuine, biologically bona fide women seeking to protect their spaces.
And now we see this question at the heart of a Federal Court case involving developer and owner of the Giggle website, Sall Grover, and a male with surgically snipped and rearranged genitals who goes by the name of Roxanne Tickle (left), purports to be a woman and is demanding six-figure damages for the alleged harm of being excluded from the site and forum. Who’d have thought it would come to this!
I am totally against identity politics and the proliferation of flags — gay, trans, Aboriginal, BLM, Extinction Rebellion, Palestine, what have you.
But it seems to me that if women are going to fight for their rights, they too should have a flag. So I have devised a suitable logo for a Woman’s Pride flag. It is one that cannot be misappropriated by trans activists and is based on the answer that Dr Murphy should have been able to provide without a moment’s hesitation: A woman is an adult human beingwho, strictly speaking, has no Y chromosome, but for practical purposes we may think of her as generally having two X chromosomes.
Atop this column is my suggestion for a Woman’s Pride flag. Below, the IPA’s Dr Bella D’Abrera on Murphy’s tongue-tied, waffle-o-matic, 78-word “definition” of a woman. And here’s a further report on Tickle Vs. Giggle
