Federal and state govern­ments, their bureaucracies, institutions and courts have all shown themselves unable to satis­factorily resolve the question of who is and isn't an Aborigine. Expect a plague of Bruce Pascoe-style pretenders if Labor's referendum to give Aboriginal people their own constitutional platform carries the day

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Paul Kelly and Troy Bramston's 'The Dismissal' purports to be the last word on the events of 1975, and many people believe that, with its release in 2015, the subject has been done to death. Not true. The only thing that has been butchered is the reputation of Sir John Kerr -- a gross injustice I hope my new book goes some way towards remedying

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Along with hermaphrodite toads, snowless ski slopes, empty dams and extreme weather events (formerly known as 'storms'), it seems climate change drives otherwise bright people to venture far beyond the reach of reason. The medicos imploring women in labour to forego the pain relief of nitrous oxide, a minor greenhouse gas, illustrate one of the more extreme symptoms

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The core claim of the Voice campaign is that only Aboriginal politicians can fix Aboriginal problems. That contradicts the entire basis of Western democracy and administration, which chooses managers based on their expertise and qualifications, not their race

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United by shared, often woke, ideologies rather than class interest, disparate voting blocs and their social media platforms are newly potent players in the game of electoral politics. They tolled the bell for Scott Morrison on May 21 and may yet ring out Boris Johnson -- two men with matching voids where once core principles might have been found

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It’s not the news presenters who retail the lies, most of the time anyway. Rather, it’s the people they choose to interview who do the dirty work for them by retailing unchallenged falsehoods. One result -- one result of many just like her -- was the leftoid chatterbox who presumed to interrupt my post-election dinner

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The dominant Aboriginal culture that remains today, and the only version any constitutional amendment could possibly hope to preserve, is the inauthentic post-colonial entity that emerged after Federation. To acknowl­edge, let alone profess a respect for such a chimera, would be to make a virtue of patronising insincerity

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Snow is a thing of the past. 'Drowning' Pacific Islands. More widespread and intense droughts, floods, famines, bushfires, cyclones. Millions of climate refugees. Like so much of the state-sponsored COVID hysteria, not a word of it is true or ever likely to be, And yet that is what we are expected to swallow day after day after day

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Welcomes to country are ubiquitous as 'enjoy your day' and about as meaningful, although not in the eyes of Catholic bishops keen to see Ernie Dingo's theatrical invention included in the Mass. If that bid proves insufficient to refill the pews, well the Plenary Council's agenda is no less keen to curry favour with gays and Gaia

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There is no better way to sow disappointment and resentment than raising expectations only to dash them on the rocks of culture, incoherence and the wilful blindness to consequences of its advocates. That, rather than amity and progress, is the alarming essence at the heart of the push for an Aboriginal Voice

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