The supposed torchbearers of the reconciliation project have played a significant role in platforming and promoting Aboriginal nationalism. It is relevant to ask to what extent the resilience of this ideology, writ large in the Uluru Statement and remote-area referendum results, is due to the reconciliation process itself

As he noted almost 70 years ago, with the possible example of Iceland there are virtually no nation states of the kind ethnic separatists demand when pushing the barrow of self-determinism. Where they have achieved their ends disaster has followed. It's a lesson taken to heart by Gary Johns in The Burden of Culture

The SCOTUS decision in Brown vs Board of Education rejected government-sponsored 'separate but equal' apartheid, insisting the law must be blind to skin colour and lineage. In Australia, however, the repudiation of equality before the law continues unabated. Indeed, it has only accelerated after the failure of the Voice

The 1937 manifesto of the New South Wales Aboriginal Progressive Association, which had sibling organisations in other states: 'We have no desire to go back to primitive conditions of the Stone Age. We ask you to teach our people to live in the Modern Age, as modern citizens' How times have changed!

Our governments gave you everything, and nothing. We worried for your young girls, your children, and ours. We took some away, you gave some to us. We did it with their well-being in mind, and did it well, and not so well. We were rarely as bad as some of you, and your white supporters,  now want the world to believe

PwC was hired by the Victorian Treaty Advancement Commission to help determine who was an elder. After consulting 201 elders in 19 workshops, '80 per cent of those consulted wanted a way to challenge spurious elders'. This which not only turned out to be impossible, it called into question just how reliable were the 201 elders consulted in the first place!

The stolen generations is a myth, a gross insult to the nation and the people of Australia.  But, increasingly, critical thinking has been replaced by critical theory, so count on Linda Burney's promotion of 'truth telling' to inscribe further volumes of exaggerations, misrepresentations and inventions

Senator Price’s grandfather. who first saw a white man as a teenager in the late 1920’s, did not imprint hate on his grand-daughter despite his own experiences. Neither did her parents, Bess and David Price. It is obvious that Jacinta was not taught to hate when young and, obviously, despite the abuse heaped upon her, unlike so many others she has not acquired that crippling flaw since.

Life for all Australians would be better had the High Court not allowed itself to be carried away with enthusiasm for the land-rights cause. The matters decided should have been contested by the Commonwealth as a matter of grave public importance, but that didn't happen. Just as it did in the more recent matter concerning the closure of state borders during the great Covid panic, passivity and acceptance were elevated to virues