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”
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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”
‘Supportive, safe, empowering’ Qld school hosts drag queen, gang fights and student knife attack
Date: October 6, 2023Author: Editor, cairnsnews 0 Comments By TONY MOBILIFONITIS QUEENSLAND’s education authorities and politicians need to be slapped out of their delusional state and get the education system back to basics. We’re talking about Queensland’s Education Minister Grace Grace, a former union boss, Director General Michael De’Ath, who presides over eight other deputyContinue reading “‘Supportive, safe, empowering’ Qld school hosts drag queen, gang fights and student knife attack”
Juukan Aboriginal heritage site was approved for destruction by WA Government in 2013
Date: October 5, 2023Author: Editor, cairnsnews 1 Comment Former government adviser Josephine Cashman, Marcia Langton and Jacinta Price. Voice proponent Langton is now trading blows with Cashman and Senator Price over the Voice NO campaign JOSEPHINE CASHMAN JAN 12, 2023 A plot to destroy Australia using the Juukan Senate Inquiry Recommendations: Juukan is not aContinue reading “Juukan Aboriginal heritage site was approved for destruction by WA Government in 2013”
The Voice, colonialism, and historical revisionism
Bill Muehlenberg Flat White Getty Images Bill Muehlenberg 30 September 2023 12:35 PM There is no question that the hordes of Woke lefties consider Australian Senator Jacinta Price to be just another ‘Uncle Tom’, for that is the disgraceful label they use on social media every chance they get. In their eyes, she exists toContinue reading “The Voice, colonialism, and historical revisionism”
The Universities
The Machiavellians in Our Universities Gregory Melleuish In the late 1950s and early 1960s the Prime Minister, Robert Menzies, inaugurated what is best described as Australia’s second “education revolution”. The first, associated in particular with Henry Parkes, had brought compulsory primary education into being for the great mass of the Australian people. The second massivelyContinue reading “The Universities”
Australia
Among Covid’s casualties, Australia’s Larrikin Spirit David Daintree Every nation cherishes an image of itself. We are often told that ours was formed on the beaches of Gallipoli, but long before the Australian union the people of the Australian colonies came to self-awareness. Few were proud of the ‘convict stain’, but almost all stressed our independent spirit, ourContinue reading “Australia”
Colonialism
A Moral Reckoning of the British Empire Matthew White The subject of the British Empire, and the complex intellectual and emotional responses of contemporary Britons to its history, is a vast topic of nearly unfathomable material and enormous importance. It is important because the ordinary lives of British people are now daily assailed by anContinue reading “Colonialism”
Living Aboriginal languages
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”
Aborigines
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”
The Voice and what it means for Land Claims
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”
Language
The Case for Latin David Daintree Climate change is one thing, but how about a new Renaissance? Is Latin merely an irrelevancy, a pitiful remnant of a once-great civilisation still holding a few of us back from our proper preoccupation with the future? Or is it just lying low, temporarily out of fashion, waiting forContinue reading “Language”
Wokeism complicates the raising of kids
Nick Hossack Flat White Getty Images Nick Hossack 20 September 2023 4:30 AM One of the dilemmas raising children in an era when Wokeism dominates every institution is whether to bluntly express your opinions on various topics or, instead, hedge and sanitise so they don’t regurgitate your views in full and, in doing so, renderContinue reading “Wokeism complicates the raising of kids”
Blue Mountains National Park and Kanangra-Boyd National Park Draft Plan of Management: public consultation
The Blue Mountains National Park and Kanangra-Boyd National Park Draft Plan of Management is on public exhibition until 26 September 2023. Current Time 2:43 / Duration 2:43 Public exhibition of the draft plan provides an important opportunity for community members to have a say in the future management of the Blue Mountains and Kanangra-Boyd national parks. OnceContinue reading “Blue Mountains National Park and Kanangra-Boyd National Park Draft Plan of Management: public consultation”
Right to Climb
Our mountains belong to all of us. The Right to Climb them and bask in their views that inspire awe and wonder is as old as the human genome. This long-established cultural tradition is under threat by a small group of bureaucrats determined to impose their way on the rest of the world. It isContinue reading “Right to Climb”
I am. you are, we are Australian-embrace it
The Voice
Three Cheers for Marcia Langton & Co Timothy Cootes When a proper history of the Voice campaign is written, one of its main themes ought to be the way in which the ‘Yes’ side ended up doing most of the work of its opponents. Now, I mean no disrespect to Warren Mundine, Jacinta Price orContinue reading “The Voice”
Jordan Peterson’s SAVAGE Departing Message for Qantas CEO Alan Joyce
Australian News Locally Jordan Peterson’s SAVAGE Departing Message for Qantas CEO Alan Joyce Following the departure of Qantas CEO Alan Joyce, Jordan Peterson, a controversial online personality, took aim at the airline again. He previously criticized the company for playing an Aboriginal song on an airplane. In response to Joyce’s departure, Peterson posted a messageContinue reading “Jordan Peterson’s SAVAGE Departing Message for Qantas CEO Alan Joyce”
Children need protection from adult madness
Lionel Shriver Columns [Getty Images] Lionel Shriver 9 September 2023 9:00 AM The Texas Supreme Court just upheld a state law banning so-called gender-affirming care for minors, to explosive consternation from predictable quarters. Progressive commentators portray this and similar laws passed by more than a dozen Republican-controlled state legislatures as ‘anti-LGBTQIA+’. In truth, the lawsContinue reading “Children need protection from adult madness”
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