To claim the abuse of women and children in Aboriginal communities has been 'learnt' from white society, a popular meme just lately, falsely suggests violence was unknown before the First Fleet. If things are to get better, the first step must be to replace convenient myths with facts. Then, finally, we might get somewhere

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Bruce Pascoe began his plenary talk, Imagining Climate Adaptation Summit, on April 19, 2021, by claiming he is a Yuin, Bunorong and Tasmanian man on Bungala country (Port Lincoln), and praising the “professional thinkers” of academia. What follows is the content of that Port Lincoln address, which the alleged men and women of science in […]

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Bruce Pascoe's address to Future Earth, a woke subsidiary of the Australian Academy of Science, is almost enough to scuttle any hope that Australia's august and mostly taxpayer-funded institutions will ever set aside politically correct nonsense and return to rigorous, fact-based scholarship. Even by the fauxboriginal's own low standards, he dished out some jaw-dropping whoppers

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Perpetuating the myth that Aboriginal people are at greater risk in jail than non-Aboriginals puts even more lives in greater danger, as indigenous women often refrain from reporting violent menfolk for fear they will be mistreated and die in custody. Trading truth for a fashionable lie has its consequences

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The effect of this proposed change to the Constitution will be to remove one section which allows the Commonwealth to make laws with respect to Aboriginal people and replace it with ... another and wordier provision allowing the Commonwealth to make laws with respect to Aboriginal people

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The popular meme insists a scintilla of Aboriginal blood confers a special spirituality and connection with Country, saddling the owner with the trauma of past atrocities while simultaneously granting absolution for black-on-white misdeeds. By all means move heaven and earth to lift disadvantaged Aborigines but let’s not make articles of faith of myth and, yes, mischief

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The great irony is that the 'treaty process' the Victorian government has initiated and Indigenous activists have embraced owes nothing to Aboriginal culture. What it promises to deliver is different laws for different races, which is the very definition of the racism its advocates profess to find so repugnant

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It is generally known that those Welcome to Country ceremonies which these days precede almost every public event are made of whole cloth. Yet the fiction, as the celebrated anthropologist A. P. Elkin might have noted, is far more palatable than the actual means by which rival tribes sorted their disagreements and promoted amity

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Constitutional recognition would create different rules for different races, which would benefit a well-placed few while denying many Aborigines access to their full potential. It is a tragic irony that the paternalism of the past, which today's elites decry, would be imposed by template on the least fortunate, least educated and most isolated

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Beer-sodden Western Australia's police shooting up secret sites, Kangaroo Island ferry passengers deriding Aborigines and the island's residents according the, ahem, proud indigenous visitor a 'bitter' reception -- is there no end to the Melbourne University professor's gift for getting himself oppressed?

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