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A Decidedly One-Sided ‘Reconciliation’

  • Peter O'Brien
  • 20th January 2021
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It's such a nebulous term I can never hear it without Paul Simon’s words coming to mind – ‘the nearer your destination, the more you’re slip sliding away’. If we are never told what this 'reconciliation' is, how will we know when we get there? Looking to the likes of Marcia Langton and Tom Calma for guidance doesn't promise much in the way of enlightenment

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The ‘Indigenous’ Invasion of Aboriginal Australia

  • Patrick McCauley
  • 6th January 2021
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For a whitefella to make a comment or have an opinion about Indigenous issues is considered ‘cultural imperialism’ and therefore inappropriate, even ‘racist’, by the city-dwelling, university-educated, grant-fed elite. Meanwhile, as abused children take their own lives in remote Aboriginal communities, their only response is to blame white privilege

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A Playground for Lawyers and Activist Judges

  • Peter O'Brien
  • 2nd January 2021
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Supporters say a constitutionally endorsed Voice takes up where the paternalistic model has failed, arguing we should allow Indigenous people to determine their own future, with government and taxpayer input limited to writing cheques as demanded. That sounds like wishful thinking, not to mention throwing good money after bad

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‘A Culturally Inappropriate Understanding’

  • Alistair Crooks
  • 15th December 2020
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To imagine the much talked about 'indigenous voice' will do anything to lift the lot of Aborigines, especially those in remote communities, is to embrace delusion as a vocation. The obstacles begin with 'Dreamtime law', range through the obligation to share with kin and climax in the misconception that 'tribe' trumps 'clan'

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Whitefella, Be Gone! Landmarks and Racial Exclusion

  • David Barton
  • 12th December 2020
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Suddenly, Australians of the wrong colour are being banished from their nation's natural landmarks and wonders -- Ayers Rock/Uluru, to note the best known case -- amid much palaver about 'sacred' sites. Let us not be deceived. This is all about power, control and, of course, money

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The White Privilege of Being Black

  • Tony Thomas
  • 1st December 2020
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Known as 'New Identifiers', their numbers help to explain why each latest census records an ever-growing number of respondents who, for any number of reasons, identify as 'Aboriginal'. Consider, for example, Tasmania, where fecundity goes nowhere near explaining the indigenous population rocketing from 671 in 1971 to 19,625 in 2016

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Silence When There Should Be Screaming

  • David Price
  • 24th November 2020
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Teenage Aboriginal suicides won't end because NRL stars refuse to sing the National Anthem. As for indigenous academics, they are happiest pontificating about flags, the Constitution and the date of Australia Day. So where are the voices, especially in their own communities, demanding abusers pay for their crimes?

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If Only We Cared Enough to Know

  • David Price
  • 30th October 2020
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Everybody knows of George Floyd, but who recognises Fionica Yarranganlagi James, Keturah Cheralyn Mamarika and Layla Gulum Leering, all Aboriginal teens whose lives ended by their own hands? Governments will never end the dysfunction, nor self-promoting indigenous 'leaders'. As a royal commission found, 'only Aboriginal people can ... assure their own future'

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Black Lies Splatter: Part II

  • Martin Lynch
  • 16th September 2020
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Like sorcerers who point the bone, the Left has worked its magic on Aborigines, leaving many unable even to identify friend from foe.  Institutionalised racism is repackaged as positive discrimination.  Apartheid is re-framed as Aboriginal separatism. And worst of all, the new lie holds that police are natural enemies of indigenous Australia

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Black Lies Splatter: Part I

  • Martin Lynch
  • 15th September 2020
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The idea that 'systemic racism' sees Aborigines imprisoned, killed or both in disproportionate numbers isn’t supported by the facts. Indeed, the opposite is true.  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are given lesser sentences because they are indigenous. Racism really is at work, but it's in the form of 'positive discrimination'

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