Fifth Column
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As anyone with a close enough knowledge of Aboriginal life in the outback knows -- as do Jacinta Price and her parents, Bess and Dave Price -- 'the gap', which is a short form for the misery and suffering of the 20 per cent of Aborigines who live remotely, is largely a result of traditional practices ill fitted to modern Australia
January 7, 2024
6 mins
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Cultural safety doesn’t just mean removing the Australian flag lest it give indigenous people anxiety attacks. Apparently the mere presence of a non-indigenous person is a threat to safety. Consequently, according to Queensland state minister Leanne Enoch, it’s tickety-boo to exclude non-indigenous people from workplaces to ensure 'cultural safety'
October 2, 2023
11 mins
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Pick up any journal article on the subject from any university. If you can get through the langue de bois and the scholastic lexicon you will find the same themes that have trickled downward into Australia's popular media, the school system, the press: white privilege and whiteness, and how to deconstruct them. I am astonished, but less and less so, by the enthusiasm with which many Australians greet their own impending deconstruction
May 3, 2023
9 mins
The latest
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Augusto Zimmermann and Gabriël Moens (Quadrant, October 2021) present us […]
October 28, 2021
8 mins
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The accusation is that the Raj gouged the Subcontinent to within an inch of its life, a charge that began in the fevered mind of a communist polemicist and, because India politics places a premium on denigrating the former colonial master, became rapidly and widely accepted as fact. It is nothing of the kind
October 5, 2021
8 mins
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Should children fail to regurgitate the politically correct ideologies of the teachers who assess their essays and exams, woe betide them. But the consequences of this curriculum go far beyond the enforcement of the Left's doctrine because the current system is educating our future teachers, meaning the rot can only get worse
July 13, 2021
8 mins
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The difference in the new Cold War is that the institutions most susceptible to infiltration have succumbed to anti-liberal sentiment and, as a consequence, those too young to know better do not realise the alternative to their messy liberal democracy is deadly communism. As might be expected, none bow so low before China's tyranny than Hollywood
January 21, 2021
4 mins
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With determination and skill, the Royal Navy was central to ending the slave trade. When fools and race hustlers today violate the trust between generations by ignoring or, worse, misrepresenting the nobility of that crusade, they besmirch the sacrifice of 17,000 seamen who gave their lives in its cause
September 5, 2020
10 mins
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Australian schools are coming out of shutdown, where for many […]
June 29, 2020
7 mins