There is no greater example of Aboriginal policy failures, from bilingual education to the deliberate fostering of a victimhood mentality, than the disgrace that is Wadeye, a town where violence and anarchy prevail. Haven't heard of the war within this NT community? No surprise, really, as the narrative of black victimhood and white guilt is such a media staple that reporting its consequences would be embarrassing

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The wider corruption of the entire indigenous studies industry risked harsh scrutiny as a flow-on from the revealed holes in the fauxborigine's fantastic thesis. Clearly, something had to be done to isolate Pascoe and cauterize such a grievous wound to a politicised discipline's crumbling credibility. Thus, finally, did 'Farmers or Hunter-Gatherers?' appear

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The Dark Emu author has out-hoaxed Ern Malley, but his is a malicious deception denigrating Aborigines and their genuine past for the amusement of bourgeois white Australians with little or no knowledge other than a smugly virtuous appreciation of that nice dot painting on the livingroom wall

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Culture is defined by Wikipedia as “an umbrella term which encompasses the social behaviour and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups”. So you could apply that definition to just about everything in any society and claim it to […]

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For a whitefella to make a comment or have an opinion about Indigenous issues is considered ‘cultural imperialism’ and therefore inappropriate, even ‘racist’, by the city-dwelling, university-educated, grant-fed elite. Meanwhile, as abused children take their own lives in remote Aboriginal communities, their only response is to blame white privilege

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  Shadows   We who are “we” my mother my father my children we have fallen apart my daughter wanders in the wilderness and does not know where she comes from where she is She is lost in “I” my brothers wallow in unthink learned in youth from beer and aspiring global citizenry. We believe […]

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As Samuel Johnson said of female parsons, 'A woman preaching is like a dog walking on his hind legs. It is not done well, but you are surprised to find it done at all.' The good Doctor might just as easily have been talking about the AFL's much bally-hooed women's competition

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Without the Use of Your Hands   (In Ireland, the English Lords outlawed the Celtic language and made the citizens dance without the use of their hands—a bodily discipline imposed to avoid assassinations by Irish patriots who refused to speak in English locked in a cultural inheritance.)   Ned Kelly’s driving the Great Ocean Road […]

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Strip away the posturing and verbiage and the whole debate eventually and irrevocably comes down to  children. If they are to be ‘commodified’ -- in effect, purchased for the cost of IVF treatments, surrogacy or adoption fees -- what does this say about their human rights?

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We went to the holy bathing place where the spring had never failed, there were ducks and geese and cormorants and the pool was filled with big catfish. There were old men on the steps fixing up the rocks where the ceremonies take place. The sky was mist or Mumbai fog and this was an […]

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