Category Archives: Aborigines

The Incidence of Cannibalism in Aboriginal Society William D. Rubinstein “Cannibalism is practised by all natives on the north coast with whom I have come in contact, with the exception of a very small tribe inhabiting the immediate neighbourhood of Port Essington … The eating of grown-up people—that is, of natives—is, as far as IContinue reading “Aborigines”

David Gardner The Spectator Australia 28 August 2023 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are made up of many different and distinct groups, each with their own culture, customs, language, and laws. They are among the world’s oldest surviving cultures – cultures that continue to be expressed in dynamic and contemporary ways. In the early 1800s,Continue reading “The golden goose causes great harm”

Date: August 6, 2023Author: Editor, cairnsnews 20 Comments PM Albanese consistently claims the Uluru Elitist Statement from the Heart upon which the Voice referendum is based is only one page when it is actually 26 pages of demands, reparations and Aboriginal cultural diversity designed for Australians to hand over sovereignty to just 3 per centContinue reading “Albanese is not even a good liar about the 26 page Uluru statement of reparations”

Anthony Dillon The Australian August 4, 2023 People with some understanding of what the proposed Indigenous voice to parliament is about – and many do not – seem to be strongly polarised. That is not necessarily a bad thing, as it can be a sign of conviction. However, social media is an arena where thisContinue reading “Indigenous people need leaders who listen, not an Indigenous voice to parliament”

The solution to indigenous disadvantage is being wilfully ignored Maurice Newman Features Australia Getty Images Maurice Newman 5 August 2023 9:00 AM Overseas visitors flying for the first time into Sydney on Qantas will be told they are setting down on Gadigal land. When they go downtown, prestigious building lobbies and bus shelter posters willContinue reading “There are none so blind”

Christopher Joliffe Quadrant Online 1st August 2023 Lately, with all the hullabaloo around the Voice and the other silly and dangerous ideas endlessly thrown around by our elites, who seem to be suffering a prolonged attack of the vapours, I’ve been feeling some sympathy for Aborigines. Not for the usual reasons, mind. This has littleContinue reading “The Synthetic Reinvention of Indigenous Culture”

Flat White Getty Images Flat White 19 July 2023 5:15 AM When 9 News put out a story on Twitter this week claiming a pack of four wongari had attacked a woman at K’gari – no one had the faintest idea what they were talking about. Once translated, it became clear that four dingoes hadContinue reading “Do you speak-a my language?”

The ‘Indigenous’ Invasion of Aboriginal Australia Patrick McCauley Culture is defined by Wiki 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 aboutContinue reading “Bennelong Papers”

Infanticide in Traditional Aboriginal Society William D. Rubinstein Infanticide—the deliberate murder of new-born infants and young children—was practised widely, and perhaps ubiquitously, among Australian Aborigines before the coming of Europeans and the imposition of Western values, which, unlike the values of pre-contact Aborigines, regarded the deliberate killing of babies and small children as murder. HowContinue reading “Aborigines”

Aboriginal Children, Their Welfare and the Voice Tony Thomas Our children are aliened from their families at unprecedented rates. This cannot be because we have no love for them.                        – Uluru Statement from the Heart Archie Roach singing “They took the children away” must be the most affecting song in Australia. I can imagine thatContinue reading “Aborigines”

Voicing Non-Solutions to Aboriginal Violence Tony Thomas As the great Bill Leak saw it. Domestic violence and dysfunction in outback communities contribute to the off-the-scale removals of Aboriginal kids from their mothers, as detailed yesterday in the first installment of this three-part series. In 2021, 6.5 per cent of Aborigines in the Northern Territory —Continue reading “Aborigines”

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 “is a demonstration of respect for theContinue reading “Welcome to Country, Farewell to Australia”

Flat White Deb Newell Getty Images Deb Newell 29 May 2023 6:00 AM The popular and long-running BBC/SBS program Who do you think you are? reaches back into written histories, stored documents, and family anecdotes found through to DNA profiling to find out where celebrities really got their skills and personalities from. This hereditary curiosity isContinue reading “Who do you think you are?”