The life of an Arab Palestinian in the West, particularly in America, is disheartening. There exists here an almost unanimous consensus that politically he does not exist, and when it is allowed that he does, it is either as a nuisance or as an Oriental. The web of racism, cultural stereotypes, political imperialism, dehumanising ideology […]

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It is very rare in Australian political history for the demands of a lobby group to be endorsed on the very night a new government is elected. It is even more rare for the leader of the victorious political party to declare publicly that he would do exactly what the lobby group wanted, in full. […]

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The months between Anthony Albanese's rash election-night pledge and the Voice's overwhelming rejection on October 14 saw public support follow an unvarying downward path to utter defeat. Much as its promoters prefer to blame racism, misinformation and 'sheer stupidity' for their failure, it was hubris, arrogance and bullying which brought their cause undone

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Marcia Langton is talking about angry youths taking to the streets while Henry Reynolds looks further afield to the UN, where he promises Australia will have 'few friends in the erstwhile colonial world'. Given neither academic commands a phalanx of angry teenage youths, what they are expressing is what they wish would happen. What they actually reveal is their hatred for the country that has given them all they have

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Megan Davis claims that at Federation the notion of 'the people' specifically omitted from the Aus­tralian polity Aborigines, women and Chinese and Kanaks by denying them all the right to vote. This claim reveals her complete ignorance of Australia electoral history. Alas amongst her fellow 'Yes' activists she is far from alone

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The Big Man of the Northern Land Council used politics to gain the right to charge rents to big corporations, and he artfully persuaded politicians and the media to influence the judiciary. Of those rents paid to organisations under his charge, very little was invested and very much spent on conspicuous consumption by the local Aboriginal elite

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