Quadrant revealed in March that current and former Territories ministers Anthony Albanese, Paul Keating and Barnaby Joyce could be called upon to apologise to children 'stolen' during their tenures as the responsible ministers. Well what do you know! That provision has been quietly scratched from the Commonwealth's National Indigenous Agency webpage

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As happened in Minneapolis, a violent miscreant and habitual public nuisance shot dead while resisting arrest in a Yuendumu hovel has been elevated by templated media coverage to the status of secular saint. What a pity those who profess to hold Kumanjayi Walker in such high esteem refused to follow The Australian's lead and talk with a thug's many victims

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Did you know Melbourne University, which recently stooped to scoop up Bruce Pascoe for its professor of Indigenous Agriculture, has now added Aboriginal-centred 'cultural astronomy' to its quiver? And have you heard of Aunty Marion Leane Smith? She left Australia for Canada at the age of two and became a nurse. Today, though, she's been press-ganged as an 'Aunty'

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Eleanor Dark was the most successful of the nationally-inclined writers of the 1930s and 40s, many of whom were women. Some had their literary limitations, but in their various ways they strived for accuracy about Australia and its society – a marked contrast with those of the past 50 years. Dark's wonderful 'The Timeless Land' leads the pack

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Long after he was exposed as a charlatan -- a revelation in which I take no small pride -- the national broadcaster's Education unit continues to present the fauxboriginal and his profitable nonsense as the genuine article. The real lesson to be taken from his demonstration of rope-making is that, when it comes to the ABC and truth, never the twine shall meet

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Were there even a glimmer of honesty amongst those so conspicuously keen to beat their breasts for the so-called Stolen Generations they would fall silent in shame. Nicholas Hasluck's new book makes that point by publishing his correspondence with the Bringing Them Home report's Sir Ronald Wilson, father and promoter of the genocide myth

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What to make of Liberal education minister Sarah Mitchell, who not only indulges Bruce Pascoe's atrocious compendium of lies to be taught in schools, but shrugs off calls for its deletion by saying the study of 'Dark Emu' isn't mandatory. Apparently, though, it is perfectly acceptable for individual teachers to flood their classrooms with its reeking nonsense

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By standing on the sidelines as the charlatan Bruce Pascoe was garlanded for the errors, deceits and absurdities of 'Dark Emu', cowardly academics spawned the current spate of postmodern sophistries in defence of the indefensible. That shameful silence, while it protected careers, has grossly besmirched the integrity of archaeology and anthropology

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It was immense bad luck for a Scottish backpacker and his companions to park their car unknowingly in the middle of a three-corner feud between two Aboriginal groups and, allied with the far less credible claimants on the basis of no evidence whatsoever and much against, the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service

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The wider corruption of the entire indigenous studies industry risked harsh scrutiny as a flow-on from the revealed holes in the fauxborigine's fantastic thesis. Clearly, something had to be done to isolate Pascoe and cauterize such a grievous wound to a politicised discipline's crumbling credibility. Thus, finally, did 'Farmers or Hunter-Gatherers?' appear

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