Indigenous
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We should take care not to project too much of our own understanding of empirical scientific method or knowledge onto Aborigines in calling them the ‘first scientists.’ Why not just celebrate the uniqueness of traditional culture as it was, for what it was?
August 22, 2024
22 mins
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Whatever internal actions the ABC takes to promote ‘reconciliation’ is its own affair. But someone needs to remind the national broadcaster that it it exists to inform and entertain all Australians, and to reflect the nation as it is not what its virtuecrats think it should be. An end to confected 'indigenous' names for cities would be a good start
August 1, 2024
11 mins
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The government of Premier Jacinta Allan is re-writing a slather of public-land acts with the intention of placing Crown land and state parks under Aboriginal control. The day is not far off when a High Country picnic will require 'indigenous permission' and, inevitably, a fee
July 18, 2024
9 mins
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As a general rule, you can count on any and all indigenous 'educational' material produced by Their ABC to be at best misleading and, at worst, confected agit-prop. With 'classroom resource' Keep the fire burning! Blak, loud and proud, the national broadcaster plumbs new depths of error and omission
July 17, 2024
14 mins
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Fools and their money are soon parted, and no cash is gobbled faster than the donations dropped into the beggar's bowl of Australia's premier fauxborigine and fact-fiddler. One assumes simple-minded donors, including a branch of the Murdoch clan, are happy to be contribute. But what of taxpayers who have no say?
July 6, 2024
23 mins
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Taking his cue from fauxborigine Bruce Pascoe, reader Frank Pledge shares the pride he felt on becoming an Aborigine.
June 5, 2024
4 mins
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It's fair enough to dislike a politician for his or her policies and even, truth be told, for reasons trivial as comportment and Plasticene smiles. But the reasons to detest Anthony Albanese, not just as a politician but as a person, are almost too many to list
May 29, 2024
8 mins
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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
May 27, 2024
9 mins
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Catch the Kuwarna vs. Euro-Yroke match? What's this you say? No idea what I'm talking about. Well shame on you! You're obviously a colonialist invader whose selfish wish it is to leave woke nostrums outside the stadium and watch a hard-fought contest. Well the AFL won't tolerate such bigotry, not now or ever
May 26, 2024
7 mins
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Australia's leading literary hoaxer continues to insist he is a bona fide Aborigine, hence entitled to all the indigenous-only grants, prizes, speaking gigs and perks he has pocketed during a lucrative career peddling shameless lies. He's at it again in his new book, this time flinging abuse at SBS and bulldust at everyone else
April 24, 2024
19 mins
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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!
March 12, 2024
17 mins