The Left and most of the Australian mainstream are ignorant of or refuse to acknowledge the harmful features of traditional Aboriginal culture. Many think of the pre-contact continent as a virtual Eden where all lived in peace and harmony before being destroyed by rapacious white colonists. The truth, radically different from the treaty-mandated exercise in propaganda called 'truth telling', is otherwise -- and yet this is what is being taught to children

Representative decision-making by a majority vote of elected representatives is integral to Western governance processes, while Aboriginal culture, as Mick Dodson has explained, requires decisions be achieved by consensus. To see how difficult this can be and usually is, look to the much frustrated saga of the North Stradbroke Island native title claim

The spreading of false information to children in Queensland's schools about the 'enormous resource of traditional culture' under the guise of education would not so long ago have evoked loud and spirited public condemnation. Now the feel-good myths of Aborigines inhabiting a pacific and harmonious pre-settlement Eden are to be endorsed by the full authority of an Act of the Parliament

Peter Smith says in his recent Quadrant Online article, “No […]

Much ink has been spilled in recent decades in arguments […]

It was the imperial custom to honour service in colonial wars with medals or bars, even to the most minor campaigns involving but a few score soldiers or sailors. Are Brendan Nelson and his fellow wind vanes on the AWM Council not even a little curious that no such decorations mark what Professor Reynolds insists was a bona fide 'colonial war' on Aborigines?

In an article recently published in the Courier Mail titled […]

Because Maoris used the stars to navigate, a NZ tribunal has ruled their descendants are entitled to a slice of the electro-magnetic spectrum. That imaginative lawyers and activist judges can produce such arguments on demand is a given -- and a warning of what lies ahead should the Voice ever be engraved in an amended Australian Constitution

Incitement is the perfect crime for politicians keen to crush dissent, the perfect tool for their compliant police. Consider, for example, Assistant Commissioner Luke Cornelius' defence of the officers who arrested and charged the pyjama-clad and heavily pregnant Zoe Buhler, an incident he cited as proof his officers don't discriminate. Oh, but they do, they most certainly do