Should 'yes' carry the referendum, the same radical groups that turned out yesterday to denounce the Voice will have to heeded, placated and bought off. They may oppose the it now, but they’ll still use it to their advantage if Australians are silly enough to present the likes of the Greens' Lidia Thorpe with an opportunity. Why take such a risk?

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In November's edition of Quadrant, our Michael Connor forensically dismantled Henry Reynolds' claim that Jeremy Bentham believed the failure to strike a treaty between the first white arrivals and Aborigines was 'an incurable flaw', one that continues to cast a shadow over modern Australia. How sadly predictable that the spurious claim would be amplified yet again in the pages of the Nine rags

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Warren Mundine's biography languished on my pile of unread books until just before Christmas, when I finally got to it. I’m glad I did, as it is more than the engrossing account of one man's life. It is also a liberating book, providing an assurance that one should not be ‘guilted’ into voting 'yes' in the  Voice referendum. 

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The brains trust at ABC Education, where they dote on Bruce Pascoe, has found something slightly more odious to extol: poo transplants. Yes, it is an evolving and often useful medical treatment, but not in the way the national broadcaster describes it. Oh well, at least they're not telling kids it was invented by pre-settlement Aborigines

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The heroes of our nationhood were not resistance leaders or freedom fighters, but politicians and statesmen, most now forgotten or only half-remembered. Their creation is an achievement worth celebrating

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What is it about the ABC and its appetite for peddling confected nonsense? Not content with fawning over fauxborigine Bruce Pascoe, it seems the national broadcaster now regards the entire world as a canvas on which to paint its falsities. Case in point: the claim that English colonists perpetrated genocide in Barbados

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To get them off their backs, both Liberals and Labor have offered the privileged intellectuals of the Aboriginal Industry what amounts to an endless cascade of sit-down money. Meanwhile, the voices of existing and far more representative indigenous bodies are shunned. Canada's First Nations won't tolerate the imposters and self-promoters. Australia's land councils would do well to follow their example

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There is shame in Peter Dutton's request for those elusive Voice details as that implies he accepts dividing Australians by race as right and proper. What next if Yes gets up? Perhaps the further dicing and slicing of the population into identity groups limited only by imagination and the courts

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The Voice is all about creating a constitutionally enshrined indigenous representative body and related structures amounting to the de facto government of a quasi-independent indigenous nation. Albanese knows this, which is why secrecy is his watchword. It is up to Peter Dutton to ring the alarm that the Yes camp seeks nothing less than a sly but sweeping revolution

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"The secularists are wreckers and they are busy at work. Chaos is the end result. Chaos is the main characteristic of the way of life the secularist wreckers are imposing upon us, not liberation. Not health or peace of mind or communities united beneath and beyond their differences, but a tribal, fretful void, anxious, divided and regularly frightened"

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