Keith Windschuttle’s column in our upcoming June edition reveals the current Aboriginal suprema for constitutional change, Megan Davis, who calls herself a Cobble Cobble woman, did not grow up in any community of that name. That exposé has produced requests that we re-publish Keith’s 2022 article in which he shows the Aboriginal population is riddled with claimants who fail the official identity test. So here it is again

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Bamboozling folk with data or simulations that may, or may not, describe reality can be fun. Astrologers, readers of entrails and other sybills made a lucrative living from it. Likewise today's careerist climate oracles, who long ago conceded the inherent uncertainty of their predictions but still insist neither knowing or understanding the immense intricacies of global weather 'is no longer a responsible justification for delay'

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Like rough terrain in a rear-view mirror, the bumps and jolts of the COVID years are fading from memory and public debate. There are new crises and threats, from inflation to the Left's vituperative abuse for Voice opponents, but to lose sight of what was done in the name of public health is to allow those in whom we placed our trust to get away with their lies and bullying. Justice demands at the very least a royal commission

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There are superb works to be seen at the Gallery of NSW, but not if you amble downstairs to view 2023's Archibald and Sulman finalists. With one or two exceptions what is to be found are the scrapings of shallow minds, meagre talent and paint-by-number cliches about the evils of capitalism, Gaia-killing cows, oppressed Aborigines and ... well, you know the stuff that gets luvvies excited

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The way literature is taught defines how destructive and impoverished education has become. No longer expected are humility, patience and a willingness to accept the limits of one's own knowledge. In today's classroom, students are now taught the author is dead, that there are as many interpretations of a text as there are readers and, the greatest travesty, that those same texts have no inherent value or meaning

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Narendra Modi will receive a rapturous welcome to Sydney, the cheering crowds begging to differ with activist academics who will tell you that he has made India a tyrannical fascist dictatorship. Check the facts, and you'll find that India is the freest country this side of Poland -- and the freest in the world with anything like its GDP per capita of just $2600

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Voice 'representatives' -- erroneously labelled because there will be no electoral roll and no voting -- will act only in the interests of a tiny, ill-defined minority. Ill-defined? Sure is. Would it 'make representations' on behalf of all 812,728 Australians who identified as indigenous in the last census ? Don't be silly! Should the referendum get up it will be the Aborigine Industry embedded in the Constitution

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Because trans activists insist words have both a common, surface-level meaning and a deeper ideological one, the truth is ignored by policymakers who hear only the superficial rhetoric of human rights. The solution, though, is simple: liberal democracy and free speech -- allowing, of course, that gender dissidents are prepared to wear the piled-on consequences of their candour and respect for facts

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The Earth Journalism Network is an organisation you've most likely never heard about. But journalists eager for handouts and paid trips to international doomfest eco conferences certainly have. All they need do to secure such largesse is get themselves noticed and produce the green piffle their patrons demand. In South Africa this has meant glowing stories about the joys of renewables even as the lights go out

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The Prime Minister was sincere about 'acting on climate', sincere about 'fighting Tories' and sincere about the Voice, but there's no evidence he has ever thought through these or any other issues. There’s no overarching narrative, no great project, only ever the fashionable cause upper-middle-class inner city punters want him to care about. It's the way midwits think -- to the extent they can and do

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