Marcia Langton is talking about angry youths taking to the streets while Henry Reynolds looks further afield to the UN, where he promises Australia will have 'few friends in the erstwhile colonial world'. Given neither academic commands a phalanx of angry teenage youths, what they are expressing is what they wish would happen. What they actually reveal is their hatred for the country that has given them all they have

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In a recent two-minute report on the Voice referendum in a remote indigenous communities, the national broadcaster fed its nightly news audience images of 13 VOTE YES! signs, three VOTE YES! T-shirts and two VOTE YES! flyers, plus three vox-poppers delivering the YES message. The ABC’s score for the NO camp: zero, zero, zero, and zero respectively. How does this square with the obligation be be fair and unbiased?

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'Things changed that night. I slept through the warning sirens and woke with the first explosions. First there was a crash followed by silence, then a second that lit the night sky. In the morning we learned eleven Russian missiles had been targeted at Lviv and three had penetrated the air defences, landing on residential apartments. People were still being excavated from the rubble'

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One seldom learns much of value in the SMH, but every now and again there's a telling insight. One such recent moment saw Yes supporters accused of 'raining down' hate, which is a real thigh-slapper of a joke given that, funnily enough, the advocates of so-called 'empathy' delight in villifying their political opponents. Empathy for the victims du jour, good. Empathy for church-going conservatives, bad

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No doubt those who promote the idea of a separatist Voice to represent Aborigines think alteration of the Constitution will in some way make amends, undo the injustices or tragedies of the past, as if by the operation of some healing time machine. The truth, as both history and the activist mindset leave no doubt, is that any such dressing of the wound actually rubs salt into it

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Not that I'm overly suspicious by nature, but there is something about marking my Voice ballot with an AEC-provided pencil that just doesn't sit right. Official assurances give good reason to believe there will be no playing fast and loose with erasers, and that security measures guarantee the integrity of the count and result. Be that as it may, I'll still be taking my ballpoint into the voting booth

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There are two ways to view the video of the entertainer's attempted indoctrination by two Yes campaigners. The first is that neither knows anything whatsoever about Australia's founding. The other and less charitable impression is that a pair of dissemblers thought they were dealing with a dill who would swallow any and all bunkum. As it happens, Kamahl proved the smartest and far more honest of the trio

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Unlike most supporters of a Yes vote, Noel Pearson has often been frank about what is sought. 'We need a constitutional Voice for the first nations,' he has said, 'a position from which we can never be shifted, a position from which to negotiate with all of the moral and historical power that is ours by virtue of our possession of this land for more than sixty thousand millennia'

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The reason the Voice isn’t being waved through is that opposition has teased out its irrelevance to the task of improving the lot of Aborigines in remote communities. That's the way of things when the Left's grandiose schemes are exposed to the daylight of informed scrutiny, which makes me wonder how much longer the promoters of the great green swindle can get away with it

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For 3000 years, civilisation’s discontents have ideal­ised the non-civilised, imagining an existence of happy and tranquil fulfillment in har­mony with the natural world. During most of this time, romanticis­ing the other constituted but one strand in the thick rope of Western thought. Today, however, what was once a single filament has become the whole rope

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Unlike the Anglicans, whose St Paul's Cathedral in Melbourne now features a permanent display celebrating animist belief with an image of the creator spirit Bundjil, the Presbyterians have said enough is enough. As Mark Powell explains, his church regards the fashionable reworking of Christian belief as a direct affront to the Bible's teachings

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When I dropped by the Museum of Sydney, various anti-white artworks were on show. One of them was a colourful piece bearing the words “Are you f****** kidding me”, which for many attendees would accurately summarise their entire experience. Indeed, the coarse-minded among us would be mouthing those words long before seeing them

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White colonial elites regarded Aborigines as an inferior race requiring protection. Today, Aboriginal elites have taken over the task of treating Aborigines as if they were feeble and in need of the giant protection racket which the Aboriginal welfare industry has become. The irony is that Australians' well-intentioned decision in 1967 led to this sad, indeed shameful, situation

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Kissinger worries that all the work he and Nixon did back in 1971-72 to open an effective long-term relationship between Washington and Beijing is being undone and, far worse, that we may well be headed for a Sino-US war. A naysayer might counter that the work he and Nixon did is the very reason very we might be heading for war

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It requires the flinty eyes of a misanthrope not to see the romantic appeal of a candlelit dinner, which is what my wife enjoyed when the lights went out. Fortunately, the green commissars of planetary penitence have not yet disconnected our gas so the chicken wasn't ruined. But with the climate-scare juggernaut rolling right along my advice would be to go long on bees wax and wicks

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Actually, that's what the latest prize for dark green journalism should be called to honour the memory of the 20th century's greatest peddler of twisted reporting, in his case dispatches to the New York Times about the wonderful place that was Stalin's Russia. Today his heirs continue to be garlanded for no less spurious stories about 'the climate crisis', most recently at Their ABC

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Having children is no crime, though encouraging people into thinking it might be is closer to one. The cultivation of certain habits of thought, combined with various material developments, have led us to this impasse, an impasse where love, once considered the prime mover of life, seems likely to escape half the population

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Many Quadrant readers attempting to comment at the national broadsheet's website have griped about their thoughts being rejected as if they were attempting to post remarks at The Conversation or the Nine rags, where anything and everything not in lockstep with the Left is spiked. True, the Oz isn't quite that bad but it is bad, as a baffled Peter O'Brien details in a follow-up to an earlier piece

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Few images are more effective in opening wallets than pictures of distressed koalas, whose sad state the accompanying ad copy inevitably insists is due to logging of old growth forests. Like just about everything the greenies assert when out for cash, it simply isn't true. What science rather than spin tells us is that the Great Koala National Park will fail the very creatures its spruikers insist they are defending

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The Coutts documents show the bank lied in saying Nigel Farrage's account was closed for lack of funds. Its forty-page dossier, full of left-wing clichés and rumours, spoke of xenophobia, racism and reputational damage from being associated with BREXIT's chief advocate. So, with an arrogance unthinkable when banks focused on banking rather than activism, he was cast contempuously aside

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Disney execs confirmed their intent to repudiate the studio's formula when they opted to remake Snow White with actors rather than animations. Keep the dwarves? That would be regressive. Cast a white Snow White? How dare you! Those presiding over the House of Mouse came not to praise Walt Disney's wholesome and lucrative shtick but to bury it

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There being no cartoonists considered worthy just at the moment of being harassed into an early grave, those fossickers for offence and perpetual grievance at the AHRC are putting up as much as $550,000 for research that is 'intersectional culturally safe, trauma informed and place based'. The jargoneers' goal, a 'national anti-racism framework', whatever that means

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Even if it could be established that disadvantaged Aboriginal people would benefit from the Voice, what about all other Australians? Would they benefit from paying reparations, from having their country geographically and racially split asunder? Fortunately, the main parties are poles apart, which has meant we have that rarest of things, a full-blown, hotly contested debate

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Try as we will, we couldn’t not be organists. Prospects of glittering financial rewards seldom motivate us and our incomes would be greeted by plumbers and electricians with derisive mirth. We lack even the spiritual benefits that come from being actively resented, like cops or tax collectors. Rather, truth be told, we become organists not because we can, but because we must

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