A fair skin should not disqualify a person from identifying as an Aborigine. It may cause the person to be subject to ridicule, but no sensible person will care -- unless, of course, the declaration is an attempt to claim unwarranted privilege. Just how different is "different"?

Former ALP national president Stephen Loosley's memoir sits better on the coffee table than the bookshelf, but for all its deficiencies in detailing a factional insider's guide to Left vs Right it does shed a certain variety of light

Indigenous problems endure not because Aborigines lack a race-based national assembly, but because a vocal cadre of leaders cannot look beyond grievance, history and victimhood to embrace the competitive and technical challenges of the twenty-first century

That the Constitution should be changed, tilting the law in parenting cases towards giving more weight to Aboriginal culture defies belief. And yet, at present, there is a consensus of the main political parties to do just that

The Bennelong Society is grateful to Quadrant for agreeing to host the principal documents of the society.

Aborigines mostly live on their land in remote parts of northern Australia. They live in a world bequeathed by the Whiteman’s dream of Aboriginal self-determination. They live blighted lives.