Category Archives: All things Australian

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”