We are never victims of the past, only ever victims of our view of the past. That is beyond obvious but nevertheless worth bearing in mind the next time blacktivists blame Captain Cook and Lachlan Macquarie for, well, all the many ills that bedevil some Aboriginal communities

It is just one man's opinion, but the abuse I have encountered from the Black Victim Brigade entitles me to right of reply. Yes, blacktivists are angry, very angry, but not about the issues they claim to be angry about. Rather, their fury is opportunistic hypocrisy of the first order

An ABC interviewer was floored recently when her guest, a man of Aboriginal heritage, begged to differ with Warren Mundine's call to change the date of Australia Day. Her shock was understandable, as it is the peddlers of victimhood who hog the nation's microphones

Reviewer Brian Galligan took to task my recent book -- or rather, attempted to do so, as his purported analysis is selective, freighted with pre-conception and laughably at odds with fact. His editor, Peter Browne, refused to publish my response to such slipshod scholarship, so read it here

Other than empty cliches and angry slogans, what a pact between white and black Australia might achieve is never explained by its loudest and most insistent advocates. Before proceeding down this path, what about addressing alcoholism, abuse and dysfunction?

No activist of the sort the ABC keeps on speed dial will admit as much, but their refusal to address the dreadful circumstances of so many women and kids in so many dysfunctional communities says it all. Why talk of grog and violence when there is a cartoonist to crucify?

First, know that accusing someone of racism is enough, as a mob of keyboard warriors will soon take up and amplify the cry. Second, don't spare the emotive language. And finally, close tight your eyes to demonstrable fact and inconvenient evidence

To be fair, there really is a lot of good stuff on display at the National Museum of Australia, but that value for the taxpayer dollar is hugely diminished by the distortions and sheer bastardry of the institution's promotion of 'stolen generation' myths and slanders of self-sacrificing missionaries

A certain kind of feminist will skate over the outrages suffered by Aboriginal women in communities where elements of traditional culture prevail. One guesses it is more fun to dress David Morrison in high heels and applaud his denunciations of the innocuous term 'guys'

To shrink from identifying Aboriginal culture as a fountainhead of domestic violence is to concede that Aboriginal women are worth less, and deserve less, than other Australian women. Alas, wrapped in a tactful silence, such is the prevailing attitude

Arrested for unpaid fines, the Aboriginal woman's death prompted a coroner's rebuke and, inevitably, accusations of racist indifference directed at Western Australia police and medical staffers. If only such outrage had focused on her life before she was taken into custody

Papers rescued from a landfill, painstakingly unearthed archival material, long-forgotten records, diary entries and correspondence put pay to the myth that racist policies saw many Aboriginal children removed from their parents. The reasons were good and the numbers tiny

The absurd complaint against Bill Leak and his infamous cartoon has ended with Gillian Triggs' & Co throwing in the towel and "closing the books". That children suffer while feather-nested thought police suppress discussion of their wasted lives is the real obscenity

Bill Leak's cartoon set the twittering class to displays of by-the-numbers outrage. Rather than hashtag sermons they might have addressed the actual causes and problems afflicting so many Aborigines. Yes, they might have done that but, sadly, they never will

In many Aboriginal communities violence is commonplace and anti-social behaviour endemic. So who do blacktivists target while rattling the cup for donations to fight "racism"? Why, the police! Sure, such crusades garner plenty of Facebook "likes" but, in the meantime, more lives are ruined and wasted

The Uluru Statement and push for constitutional recognition which convened that gabfest both hang on the willingness of those not invited to accept magic words and incantations of grievance. Politeness silences open scepticism of most non-Aboriginals, but it is unlikely to apply at the ballot box

The repulsive portrait painted by academic lawyers of racist Australian governments wilfully disenfranchising all Aboriginal people, denying them their rights as citizens and casting them out of the polity, is historically untrue, nothing more nor less than a slanderous fabrication

The SBS series was valuable, but might have achieved much more had it eschewed the easy and obligatory voicing of several participants' 'white guilt'. First, that sentiment is unwarranted. Second, self-laceration doesn't do a thing to get the rubbish cleaned up

If Aborigines are to be written into the Constitution, what is that must be added? More than that, will a few sentences of feel-good boilerplate make the slightest difference in remedying the dysfunction and abuse that marks so many Indigenous communities?