The Voice saleswoman should not be let anywhere near Yarralumla Peter O’Brien Features Australia Getty Images Peter O’Brien 11 November 2023 9:00 AM This edition of The Speccie falls on the 105th anniversary of the end of the first world war. That moment marked the emergence of the fledgling nation of Australia onto the worldContinue reading “Burney for G-G? Say No!”
Category Archives: Pretend Aborigines-
Indigenous’ claims: Hey white fella/sheila, we’re not all from ‘Gullabul Land’
Date: August 14, 2023Author: Editor, cairnsnews 21 Comments By TONY MOBILIFONITISIT seems poor old Bruce Pascoe isn’t the only Aussie getting caught out in the scam by some prominent people to “identify” as indigenous, based on some hunch about a distant auntie having a connection to some distant alleged great, great, Black Fella grandad/auntie duringContinue reading “Indigenous’ claims: Hey white fella/sheila, we’re not all from ‘Gullabul Land’”
Aborigines
Bogus Identity and Constitutional Change Keith Windschuttle Editor-in-chiefEditor, Quadrant Magazinekeithwindschuttle@quadrant.org.au In July 2000, Allen Appo of Bundaberg, Queensland, was charged in the Townsville Magistrates Court with a breach of the Fisheries Act by illegally catching undersized and female mud crabs. He was represented by Townsville Aboriginal Legal Aid who argued that, because Appo was Aboriginal,Continue reading “Aborigines”
Aborigines
Golden Emu: Notes on a Hoax Michael Connor Contributing editor It began here. Bruce Pascoe was thirty-four, he had been a country high school teacher and was working as an Education Department bureaucrat in Carlton when he received his first newspaper headline and a four-word review: “The man’s a charlatan!” The insightful summing up wasContinue reading “Aborigines”
Ban Welcome to Country nonsense, Australia belongs to Australians
Date: May 24, 2023Author: Editor, cairnsnews 0 Comments Choking everybody with eucalyptus smoke was dreamt up 30 years ago by white activists claiming to be black Liberal Senator Alex Antic Share this: Related Published by Editor, cairnsnews One of the few patriots left who understands the system and how it has been totally subverted underContinue reading “Ban Welcome to Country nonsense, Australia belongs to Australians”
Pretend Aborigines
Anne EasbyThis is a map of Aboriginal tribes across Australia and frequently shown in schools. It will be interesting to see how governments negotiate treaties. Queensland’s treaty is expected to cost hundreds of millions of dollars and there are 150 tribes in Queensland alone. Who will pay and to whom? Why should people with noContinue reading “Pretend Aborigines”
Who is Wollumbin Consultative Group?’
Mathew Condon The Australian May 15, 2023 You come to the foot of Wollumbin-Mount Warning, the monolithic, totemic, almost mythic volcanic plug 12km southwest of Murwillumbah on the NSW far north coast, through ancient rainforest, across creek beds littered with car-sized boulders, and up, up towards the Wollumbin Summit Trailhead. Then, a kilometre out fromContinue reading “Who is Wollumbin Consultative Group?’”
The Voice
White Man’s Dreaming Keith Windschuttle Editor-in-chiefEditor, Quadrant Magazinekeithwindschuttle@quadrant.org.au 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 itsContinue reading “The Voice”
Pauline Hanson: Senate kicks vital Voice issue down the road
Flat White Pauline Hanson Getty Images Pauline Hanson 11 May 2023 2:15 PM The vexing but vital issue of genuine Indigenous identity will fester during the Voice referendum period and for a long time after unless – and until – Parliament settles the question of what defines an Indigenous Australian. This week, a gutless SenateContinue reading “Pauline Hanson: Senate kicks vital Voice issue down the road”
Blacktivism and the Crown
Flat White Kevin Donnelly Getty Images Kevin Donnelly 7 May 2023 3:00 AM Given the coronation of King Charles III, there are differing and often conflicting opinions about the significance of the British monarchy and what the institution means to Australia. While many celebrate the long history of ritual and ceremony surrounding the occasion, thereContinue reading “Blacktivism and the Crown”
‘Race shifting’ casts long shadow over cultural identity
Claire Lehmann The Australian April 14, 2023 The 2021 census found the number of people identifying as Aboriginal in Australia had increased 25 per cent over a five-year period. The huge uptick could not be explained by an Aboriginal baby boom, but the result of an increase in people claiming Aboriginal identity later in life,Continue reading “‘Race shifting’ casts long shadow over cultural identity”
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