Category Archives: Aborigines

Who exactly has benefited from the billions in indigenous welfare? Maurice Newman Features Australia Getty Images Maurice Newman 4 November 2023 9:00 AM Finally, the referendum is over and the people have spoken. Predictably, the  ACT was the only jurisdiction in the nation to vote Yes. Yet again it has proven to be the nationalContinue reading “Time to drain the indigenous swamp”

Government votes against an inquiry into child sex abuse James Macpherson 18 Oct 2023 Aboriginal flags are flying at half mast this week, but for the wrong reason. Flags shouldn’t have been lowered to mourn the fact that, on Saturday, 60 per cent of Australians did not support an Indigenous Voice to Parliament. They shouldContinue reading “Aboriginal Flags Fly at Half Mast … But for the Wrong Reason”

Date: October 13, 2023Author: Editor, cairnsnews 2 Comments 500 of the top Aboriginal corporations By Lyndesy Symonds Long after Step One to Makarrata and Treaty is decided by Referendum, our Australian conflict (across a range of issues) with the Aboriginal Corporate and Political Structure (and its Industry) will remain. https://www.oric.gov.au/geographic-spread-top-500-corporations Their Voice and political influenceContinue reading “AbCorp loaded with box tickers and backed by UN”

Date: October 6, 2023Author: Editor, cairnsnews 7 Comments By Dr David Barton In 1983, as a naïve youth worker and concerned by what I had been reading since the early 1970s about what was happening with Aborigines in Alice Springs, I moved there to see what I could do to help. All told, I spentContinue reading “Aboriginal ‘culture’ today is an invention of the last 50 years”

Welcome to Country, Farewell to Australia Peter Smith Frequent contributor I’d like to begin by acknowledging the Traditional Owners of the land on which I drink my coffee and write today. I would also like to pay my respects to Elders past and present. I understand that this kind of mawkish acknowledgement of country “isContinue reading “Aborigines”

The Violent Politics of Australia Day Keith Windschuttle Editor-in-chiefEditor, Quadrant Magazinekeithwindschuttle@quadrant.org.au The group of Aboriginal activists and their white supporters who set fire to Old Parliament House on December 30 were marking what will soon be the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in the parliament’s grounds. They were emulating theContinue reading “Aborigines”

The Break-Up of Australia: Part I Keith Windschuttle Editor-in-chiefEditor, Quadrant Magazinekeithwindschuttle@quadrant.org.au The clans of east Arnhem Land join me in acknowledging no king, no queen, no church and no state. Our allegiance is to each other, to our land and to the ceremonies that define us. It is through the ceremonies that our lives areContinue reading “Aborigines”

The National Indigenous Languages Survey is a regular Australia-wide survey of the status of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages[14] conducted in 2005,[15] 2014[16] and 2019.[14] Languages with more than 100 speakers: Total 46 languages, 42,300 speakers, with 11 having only approximately 100. 11 languages have over 1,000 speakers. Classification Internal Most Australian languages areContinue reading “Living Aboriginal languages”

The 1967 Referendum’s Wrong Question Andrew Smallman The Australian Constitution was written in the last decade of the 19th Century and became the lawful basis of the newly formed Commonwealth of Australia in 1901. One of the main tasks of the Constitution was and remains to specify the respective powers and responsibilities of the statesContinue reading “Aborigines”