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'

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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In the interests of balance, I asked Indigenous affairs commentator Gerry Georgatos to challenge my viewpoint. Gerry’s questions, along with my answers, follow: Georgatos: It is argued that education and employment are the ways forward towards equality between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and non-Aboriginal Australians. But the fact remains that if you are born […]

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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?

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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

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