Writing at The World, Quadrant’s Simon Kennedy explains the Voice and its failure. Here’s a sample: … one of the great ironies of the Voice was that the leaders of the “Yes” campaign do not reside in remote communities, do not live in traditional ways, and do not face genuine disadvantage. As Gary Johns, a […]

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‘Kvetch’ is a lovely Yiddish word for the whiniest sort of complaining, and it is also the ironic name chosen by Misha Saul for his Substack blog, which is always worth a visit. In a recent post he wonders if Yes-canted Aboriginal leaders, while talking a good game about ‘sovereignty’, actually want, understand and are […]

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Below, correspondence Quadrant readers might care to keep in mind when deciding if to patronise Bunnings, Kmart, Target or any other of Wesfarmers’ many brands: TO: Michael Chaney AO, Chairman Wesfarmers Dear Mr Chaney, …I note that the Board authorised a donation of $2 million by Wesfarmers to the “Yes” campaign. I know that it […]

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Fireworks erupted outside the Lakemba Mosque on Sunday night, when the gent in  black was spotted waving an ISIS flag amid no apparent objections from his fellow merrymakers. And what were they celebrating, these case studies in how multiculturalism’s diversity makes Australia what it is? Observe the picture below. The pixelated pinkish area is the […]

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At his Substack blog, Harry Richardson mulls the career and couth of Noel Pearson. A sample: … for reasons best known to Pearson, he prefers to not live amongst his community but remotely, on Noosa’s North Shore. Noel’s chosen home of Tewantin in the Queensland Sunshine Coast lies along the Noosa River, bounded to the […]

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Do you have stock of social justice cliches at the ready? Can you spell ‘post-colonisation generational trauma’? Will you place hand on heart and proclaim ‘First Nations trans women are real women’? Are you capable of deciphering bureaucratese and don’t care too much about misplaced apostrophes and banged-out-in-a-rush typos? If so, the Australian Human Rights […]

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Contributor Walter Waverley was collecting his mail when he noticed fellow customers at Paddington Post Office feeding a rubbish bin by the door with a rich diet of discarded “Yes” handbills from local Wentworth Teal MP Allegra Spender. A portent of the Voice referendum’s defeat October 14? Like so many fellow Australians, Walter certainly hopes […]

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The key fight on the homefront is, of course, to make sure the Voice is not merely defeated on October 14 but utterly thrashed, a result that might just see the current leadership cadre of the Aboriginal Industry pushed back at least a little from the trough of their taxpayer-funded grants, contracts and sinecures. Well, […]

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Angry Anderson, the much-illustrated frontman for high-decibel rockers Rose Tattoo, is not, perhaps, a name most would expect to find in Quadrant‘s online pages, but his sentiments certainly are. He writes: … We’ve all hung in there, all these years, never begrudging the billions of our hard-earned taxes going into the Aboriginal industry in the […]

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