The 'Stolen Generations' became an issue only after a white ANU postgrad's 1981 pamphlet on the topic. How is it that the exposure of such cruelty was the work not of Aborigines, who would have witnessed it first hand, but of a left-wing academic? The tangled web has snared many, not least Minister for Indigenous Australians Ken Wyatt

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The Uluru Statement falsely portrays people of Aboriginal and British descent as long-standing enemies, and it misrepresents British, Australian and international law. When the Aboriginal political class demands 'a more inclusive and nuanced narrative' no one should be in any doubt that, far from producing a more unified nation, it will achieve the precise opposite

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After helping to whip up a public envi­ronment that would see an innocent man imprisoned, Walkley winner Morris-Marr read with dismay that the Herald Sun's leading writer, Andrew Bolt, had called her work 'a witch hunt' and a 'smear'. Having received a very mild dose of the opprobrium she visited upon George Pell, the fearless investigator suddenly devel­oped very thin skin

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Within the ideological imperatives that prevail today, any one of us could become George Pell. We could be accused by strangers of reprehensible behaviour, and then find the weight of the nation’s structures of law, government and public opinion piled on top of us

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Whatever ambitions China might now have about its place in the world, what has always been the greatest threat to the civilisation built by English-speaking peoples is not abroad but at home. The danger comes not from declared enemies without, but from vociferous critics within

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These days, imperialism is so at odds with political fashions that few say a good word for it. Deepak Lal, one of the wisest men I’ve known, dared do just that, noting that empires come in two varieties: those that plunder and those, such as the British Empire, that served as custodians of laws and civil order

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During the Black Lives Matter protests Scott Morrison said there had never been slavery in Australia. Some days later he said his statement was wrong and apologized in parliament. However, he was badly advised, and had been right the first time, as this three-part historical series from Quadrant shows

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During the Black Lives Matter protests Scott Morrison said there had never been slavery in Australia. Some days later he said his statement was wrong and apologized in parliament. However, he was badly advised, and had been right the first time, as this second installment of Quadrant's three-part historical series shows

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During the Black Lives Matter protests Scott Morrison said there had never been slavery in Australia. Some days later he said his statement was wrong and apologized in parliament. However, he was badly advised, and had been right the first time, as this three-part historical series from Quadrant shows

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According to the traditional account, James Cook took formal possession of Australia's east coast on a little island on to the west of Cape York in the Torres Strait. There is a problem, however, with what the official account of this ceremony. It probably never happened

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