'Changing the day' is more than a slogan to be chanted while blocking traffic. As an annual exercise in the promotion of identity politics, the movement to disparage Australia's origins is a crucible in which victimhood, myth and needless guilt are kept on the boil to produce the acid of perpetual and implacable resentment
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In 1877, an extraordinarily imaginative artist at the 'Australian Illustrated News' depicted Aborigines by a towering circle of standing stones evocative of Stonehenge. Bruce Pascoe makes much of the image in 'Dark Emu' but his silliness is as nothing beside the web of sophistry and victimhood woven by a pair of Monash academics
On the 20th anniversary of the Mabo decision they are still pretending that terra nullius was part of our colonial history – it wasn’t.
Rather than leading to reconciliation, the Risdon Cove site disseminates propaganda about the alleged massacre and hints at similar atrocities across the state. Visiting groups of school children are encouraged to read a plaque which inflates the numbers killed and ignores any evidence to the contrary.
The 2011 Australian/ Vogel fiction award has gone to a novel about our past built of blood and genocide. It’s timely to look again at this chapter from Keith Windschuttles’s book to see how the bloodshed the author dipped into was invented.
After this book, no one can now plausibly argue that Risdon Cove is a massacre site. John Owen’s book establishes beyond reasonable doubt that, as far as Risdon Cove is concerned, the case for atrocity does not stand up.
The history of Australia that the SBS documentary “Immigration Nation” overlooked. The White Australia Policy was introduced for economic and cultural reasons, not primarily because of racial prejudice. A proper reading of its history reveals there is no ghost of racism haunting mainstream Australia culture.
Why am I mixed up in this controversy? Because, as a journalist, I want to make Keith Windschuttle’s rigorous and magisterial research on the “Stolen Generation” accessible to the public and especially, to students.
The Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) is proposing to introduce a radical national history curriculum that encourages students to criticize, ridicule, and debunk (‘deconstruct’) the Anzac tradition.
Mervyn Bendle speaks with Chris Smith on 2GB about the attacks being made by the academic Left on the teaching of history in the school curriculum. As the assault on our history continues there has been widespread community concern about the denigration of Anzac Day.
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