The referendum result wasn't a defeat for constitutional recognition of indigenous peoples or the aspirations of those same Australians. It was a defeat for the particular, poorly drafted, over-expansive proposed amendment put forward by Australia's indigenous elite and a political class that assumed bullying would see the nation submit to their will

"Their chief prosecutor was some wise guy named Shokin, and Dad said he was one bad dude -- just like Corn Pop -- and he had to go. So I went to Kiev, put on the speakerphone, and got the Big Guy on the line. Six hours later, Shokin was gone"

Disney execs confirmed their intent to repudiate the studio's formula when they opted to remake Snow White with actors rather than animations. Keep the dwarves? That would be regressive. Cast a white Snow White? How dare you! Those presiding over the House of Mouse came not to praise Walt Disney's wholesome and lucrative shtick but to bury it

If current trends continue and Australians increasingly proclaim their indigeneity to census takers and the like, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population will overtake that of the nation as a whole within 80 years—at which point, everyone will be indigenous (and then some). That’s true even after accounting for Labor’s post-election decision to boost immigration. Big Australia will not be multicultural. It will be indigenous.

Long live the King. Even if you don’t like him […]

The tramp stamp will always look suggestive on a twenty-something yoga instructor; the shoulder skull will always look fearsome on a twenty-something muscle-head. At forty or fifty, not so much. Tattoos were better suited to a time when the average life expectancy was thirty-eight. People don’t age well, but tattoos age even worse

In Iran, homosexuality is banned, but sex-reassignment surgery to turn would-be homosexuals into pro-forma heterosexuals is subsidised by the government. What could be more 'right-wing' than that? Boys will be girls and girls will be boys, but is the Australian establishment’s wholehearted embrace of transsexuality really just a return to reactionary conservatism? Only an April fool could say

The burgeoning ranks of Australia's genocide scholars, advocates of a republic and the Voice and, of course, the Prime Minister have their visions of the nation they hope to leave to their children. Figuratively speaking, of course. If they really do get the Australia they want, there won’t be much left to leave

Here's why the post-Christian proponents of the West’s new woke religion push their agenda with the full fiery force of Abrahamic fervour. No Ayatollah or Salafi Imam ever laid down the law with more self-righteousness than the Woollahra Municipal Council. God speaks directly to them, as surely as He speaks to Greta