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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Of all the weirdness COVID-19 has inflicted on Australia, perhaps the most bizarre example of the virus' impact on the bureaucratic mind emerged this week from the Therapeutic Goods Administration -- a 'cease and desist order' directed at a group of physicians who desire the freedom, now denied them, to prescribe hydroxychloroquine

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Why is it not open to contend that it is preferable for Australia’s elected legislators to decide issues, such as so-called 'hate speech' matters, rather than substantive law-making decisions being dictated directly by international bureaucrats or indirectly by courts and tribunals?

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This summer has been a mild one in Victoria -- plenty of rain and cooler-than-normal weather, which means the bush and its future fuel loads have grown. Come the next drought, it will cure and it will burn as surely as the sun rises in the west. Bushfire managers and their advising academics seem incapable of grasping this simple truth

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Those who haven't visited Junkee don't know what they're missing, which isn't much if truth be told, other than the opportunity to observe the tragically hip assuring readers and each other how seriously they take every latest fashion in social justice. Surely it's time for those on the right to get down with the youth and offer unwoke alternatives

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There is a world of difference between a complainant and a victim. Yet when crimes of a sexual nature are being alleged the term victim is often thrown about. Implicitly this suggests that a crime has indeed been committed and someone, often known, is the culprit

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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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President Biden says his Executive Orders are aimed at unifying the country after the divisiveness and confrontations of the Trump era. There is ample evidence, however, that these Orders, rather than unifying the country, will only inflame the Trump constituency

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Avi Yemini is not a member of the mainstream media, which redounds to his credit. First, he is on the right, and there is a second distinction setting him apart from Daniel Andrews' Spring Street stenographers, who kid themselves they are fearless newshounds. So what does the Premier do when a genuinely brave reporter hoves into view? Sools the police on him

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