The real goal of the Voice was always more than simply allowing indigenous people representation to the Australian parliament — which they have had, anyway, almost continuously since 1967 through successive government advisory boards. It is to further the 'unfinished business' that will never end

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How might we begin to solve the problems afflicting Aborigines? The example of Italians, Greeks and other immigrants perhaps provides a template. They, too, were outsiders in an alien culture, so they formed ethnic clubs while integrating over one or two generations to fully realise the opportunities open to all -- including indigenous Australians

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Of all the places to come across misinformation about Aboriginal voting rights, the AEC's website should be the very last. It is almost as if there is an agenda at work -- an agenda to promote the cult of victimhood and stain our national decency with the one-size-fits-all cliches of racial oppression so often promoted by activists

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The sacrifices, hard work and patriotism which created a nation of such complexity and cohesion should be celebrated, surely, by all right-thinking Australians? Yet all the NRL star can do is hog the spotlight with his empty, divisive gesture, the basis of which cannot withstand a moment’s scrutiny

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Nelson Mandela said a refusal to forgive 'is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.' It is advice blacktivists demanding what amounts to constitutionally endorsed separatism would do well to accept. They won't, of course

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With facts in hand it comes as no surprise to learn that just about everything Parks Australia and the current stewards of Ayers Rock would have you believe is a lie. A mere few months from now the ascent made by millions visitors will be off limits and all of us, black and white alike, will be the poorer

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Sex abuse and suicide in Aboriginal communities are topics polite PC society would prefer addressed only to the extent they can be blamed on others, the fashionable pose being to flip the finger at Australia Day. Truth isn't fashionable and, as Keith Windschuttle writes, what the Left would suppress is very grim indeed

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In Melbourne this week, blogger and author Marc Henrickx launched A Guide to Climbing Ayers Rock, which argues the sandstone monolith belongs to all Australians, not just those Aborigines whose local leaders are rejecting documented history to deny all but their own access to a national treasure. Here is what he had to say

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The divisive myth that the Australian nation is composed of three population waves – Aboriginal, British, and post-war immigrant – has seduced many, most recently Paul Kelly, who believes it ‘true and inclusive’. We should acknowledge the nation we inhabit today is the product of only one of these social assemblages

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Uluru's custodians swear that climbing the monolith defiles it, yet they don't accord a documented truth any respect at all. The proof is a long forgotten ABC interview with Toby Naninga, who confirmed there is nothing sacred about the summit and urged tourists to avoid only a few small, fenced-off areas

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