SBS promotes New Gold Mountain as showing the plight of Chinese on the gold fields from their perspective. However, according to those I spoke with from Ballarat’s Chinese Library, that view is not shared by descendants of Chinese gold seekers. They are disconcerted by SBS’s depiction of their history

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The council meeting was in the Melbourne municipality of Brimbank, but it might have been just about anywhere parish-pump potentates push the latest wokery while applying the gag to ratepayers who might object. That residents should sit mute as their betters hand down edicts -- in this case not to observe the nation's birthday day -- was not to be doubted, for three burly security guards stood ready to enforce the public gallery's silence

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The Healing Foundation has $632 million in programs, all funded by the Australian taxpayer. For such a sum you might expect a medical specialist in Aboriginal health on the board or in senior management, but you would disappointed. Instead there are weasel words, flurries of psychobabble and the exaltation of inherited victimhood

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She was always busy: the phone never stopped ringing at the Realities gallery, and people were steadily coming in. Figures like the painter John Brack or the art historian Patrick McCaughey visited to see the month’s show, and there were identities like Len French and Brett Whiteley. Sometimes even Sid Nolan would drop in

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In recent decades escalating disapproval has been directed at the discipline of Australian history. The objectivity of many authoritative books is now doubted on racial grounds, detractors alleging the books were written from too “white” a perspective. Calls have been made to remedy this via narrative histories which press an indigenous viewpoint, or, better still, […]

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Contrary to the promotional ads, Insight's big question, 'Has political correctness gone too far?' was not addressed. Nothing was said, for instance, about the cancelling of Barry Humphries, Germaine Greer and Israel Folau, nor was there discussion of the wokesters' campaigns to revoke civil honours awarded to Margaret Court and Bettina Arndt. What viewers did get was a fine lesson in the modern Left's talent and appetite for bullying

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Much as in a Soviet-style museum, what ought to be unbiased expert information has been corrupted to support a political line. The museum's website entries, 'Tear it Down' and 'Whose History' are prejudiced, inaccurate and at points untrue. Yet there they are for all to see, brazen repudiations of everything a museum should be

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Unhappy that Cook declined to wreak vengeance on the Maori who ate ten of his crewmen, the disaffected sailors are said to have tried, convicted, executed and eaten a native dog as a cheeky criticism of their captain. It's a great story but not a word of it could possibly be true

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Like teenagers rejecting their parents’ talk of the past, those at ABC Classic and ABC Jazz know for a moral certainty that prejudice in the performing arts was rife in the grim olden days, meaning today's cultural and music scenes are stained by legacies of racism and exclusion. Somehow, according to the twisted logic of woke, that means no Hiawatha Sonatas, even though the composer was a black man

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