If there’s any hint of unintended consequences—for example, an untidy debate about who exactly qualifies for the description “indigenous”—then the proposition [for constitutional recognition] will be defeated.             —former Foreign Minister, Bob Carr, 2012 There was consternation in Tasmania last month when its government was told it could not change the wording of a UNESCO […]

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Keith Windschuttle’s column in our upcoming June edition reveals the current Aboriginal suprema for constitutional change, Megan Davis, who calls herself a Cobble Cobble woman, did not grow up in any community of that name. That exposé has produced requests that we re-publish Keith’s 2022 article in which he shows the Aboriginal population is riddled with claimants who fail the official identity test. So here it is again

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None of its predecessors, such as the Homelands movement that gave birth to land rights and remote communities, have worked, except for transferring wealth to members of the Aboriginal academic and bureaucratic elite. The Voice promises more of the same for the latter. As for the tragic inhabitants of those remote communities, they will be in just as bad a position as they are now

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In September last year the Albanese government advertised for applicants for a new position in the bureaucracy, an Ambassador for First Nations People. The ambassador would be employed by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to work across a number of government agencies and departments. The brief would be to “engage directly on how […]

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It is not often acknowledged that Barry Humphries was a conservative and, for a big slice of his adult life, close to Quadrant. It was in these pages that Sir Les first stirred and, before that in his column, 'Pseuds Corner', he impaled the poseurs of public life on the barbs of their own, most embarrassing pretensions

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Until now, none of the debate over the Voice has seriously discussed the reparations to be paid to Aboriginal people if the referendum gets up. Few Australians realise the topic is even on the table. Yet the expenditure proposed by the government bureaucracies involved is immense. And Albanese has appointed an indigenous ambassador to ensure we pay all the global reparations due to 'First Nations' for 'stealing' their sovereignty

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When Voice advocates laid down their Uluru agenda for Aboriginal self-determination, a non-negotiable demand was that Australia undergo a process of 'truth-telling'. This brings to mind 1984 and Orwell’s central character at the Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith, whose job it was to send history down the memory hole while rewriting the past to accord with Big Brother's latest political narratives and objectives

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The garb worn by the radical indigenous politician, Lidia Thorpe, during her protests on Australia Day this year had a much greater impact than she could have hoped. Waving her fake sword in the air and sporting the T-shirt slogan “Sovereignty Never Ceded: Speak the Truth”, Thorpe posed for photographs that were later used by […]

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If the Voice referendum is held later this year, as the Prime Minister has promised, voters need to be aware of its ultimate objective. This is to establish a politically privileged race of Aboriginal people, and to relegate of the rest of us to a subservient position in what we once thought was our own country

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The Aboriginal establishment doesn't want to be just one respected minority group among many, seeing themselves as retaining the rights of those whose lands were invaded and are now illegally occupied. Voters in the proposed referendum need to recognise the ultimate objectives are establishing a politically separate race and, potentially, the break-up of Australia

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