We should take care not to project too much of our own understanding of empirical scientific method or knowledge onto Aborigines in calling them the ‘first scientists.’   Why not just celebrate the uniqueness of traditional culture as it was, for what it was?

We have had 50 years of failure in Aboriginal policies which has needed to be obscured behind 50 years of anthropological spin. The real barriers to the success -- embedded in Aboriginal culture itself -- have been hidden from sight in order to not upset indigenous sentiment. Only the sunlight of an unfettered royal commission has any chance of revealing both truth and remedies

As soon as Adolf Hitler assumed power in 1934 he enshrined environmentalism as a guiding principle, explicitly including organic farming and sustainability as key items of the agenda. Those policies fared no better than that of today's Greens, albeit with one exception: the Nazis never tried to run the Reich on wind power

There is no better way to sow disappointment and resentment than raising expectations only to dash them on the rocks of culture, incoherence and the wilful blindness to consequences of its advocates. That, rather than amity and progress, is the alarming essence at the heart of the push for an Aboriginal Voice

Brightly wrapped boxes full of lies wait to be appreciated and embraced at the foot of the tree. Except they're not really lies, not in the modern sense, if everyone keeps on 'doing the the right thing'. As all know after two years of ever-changing diktats, lockdowns and virus-carrying pizza boxes, the latest iteration of official 'truth' will serve just as well

The key questions raised by Robert Kennedy's scathing appraisal of Anthony Fauci's career, motives and associates is how close is the collective hand of public health and political cadres to flicking the 450-volt switch on their compliance control boards? Just what level of mass obedience have they already achieved? And, most worrying of all, just how much further are they prepared to go?

Awaiting execution in 524, Anicius Boethius occupied his last days by writing of his debates with the Goddess of Philosophy. Many things have changed in 1500 years but the doomed Roman's reflections remain a prism through which to examine our modern world, what we have lost and what has replaced it

Like the Soviet geneticist, who bent the sail of his findings to the political wind blowing from the Kremlin, too many modern scientists demonstrate a distressing eagerness to mesh their pronouncements with the favoured narratives of the politicians and institutions who fund them. President Eisenhower warned such ethical bankruptcy was coming. Now it's here

To imagine the much talked about 'indigenous voice' will do anything to lift the lot of Aborigines, especially those in remote communities, is to embrace delusion as a vocation. The obstacles begin with 'Dreamtime law', range through the obligation to share with kin and climax in the misconception that 'tribe' trumps 'clan'