Snowy Brumby Photography Adventures with Michelle and Ian deSsotopnrf1fc6f168855c5i1ff9um35f99fl0t1367uhu2cgi9h4m380f0 · Hi all Our 15 year old daughter Emily wanted to do this post so the computer and images are all hers “What will come of the last Snowy mountains brumby? Will he frantically run around in search of other brumbies? Will he travel great distancesContinue reading
Category Archives: All things Australian
Australian History
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”
Qld MP: ‘a woman is anyone who identifies as one’
Date: May 16, 2023Author: Editor, cairnsnews 18 Comments By Lyndesy Symonds Check out our Attorney General and Minister for Justice, MINISTER FOR WOMEN and Minister for the Prevention of Domestic and Family Violence: Shannon Fentiman. What is a woman? According to Shannon – ” Let’s be inclusive. Anyone who identifies as a woman, is aContinue reading “Qld MP: ‘a woman is anyone who identifies as one’”
What I learnt from an Aboriginal Elder
Flat White Steven Tripp Getty Images Steven Tripp 13 December 2022 4:00 AM Recently, I sat down to interview an Aboriginal Elder from South Australia for the ExCandidates podcast, of which I am a host. Her name is Kerry White, a former nurse and diabetes educator from the Narungga people. The aim of the interviewContinue reading “What I learnt from an Aboriginal Elder”
Alan Jones: ANZAC Day’s true reality and the forgotten message
Flat White Alan Jones Getty Images Alan Jones 16 May 2023 4:00 AM Of course, it is a new month since the outpouring of respect, on ANZAC Day, in memory of the fallen and of others who served in the cause of their country. Notwithstanding the rhetoric, all is soon forgotten. On the day, itContinue reading “Alan Jones: ANZAC Day’s true reality and the forgotten message”
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?’”
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”
Aborigines
Glimpses of Life in a Remote Aboriginal Community Paul Prociv When I recently came across Kim Mahood’s searingly frank description of whitefella workers in remote Aboriginal communities, I was swept back in a wave of nostalgia to my own brief exposure in Arnhem Land almost 30 years ago. While I didn’t keep a record, andContinue reading “Aborigines”
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”
The terrifying future of the Voice found in its past
Flat White Matthew Stratton Getty Images Matthew Stratton 3 April 2023 7:00 AM In March 1982, the National Aboriginal Conference established under the Whitlam government put forward what can genuinely be described as the most radical proposal in Australian history. The proposed treaty between Aboriginal peoples and the Commonwealth (without referendum) sought to ‘return’ sovereigntyContinue reading “The terrifying future of the Voice found in its past”
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”
A King’s Welcome
Leading Article Australia The Spectator Australia Getty Images The Spectator Australia 6 May 2023 9:00 AM This magazine supports our constitutional monarchy and thus naturally delights in the spectacle of the coronation. Our constitutional monarchy, the by-product of the extraordinary and unique colonisation of this continent some two centuries ago, has served all Australians extremelyContinue reading “A King’s Welcome”
Documenting a Democracy
Commonwealth > Document > Commonwealth SignificanceWhy is it important? >> HistoryHow did it happen? >> DescriptionWhat does it look like? >> View transcript(PDF) – 29KB(RTF) – 49KB View scanscover | provisions | p1 | p2 | p3 | p4 | p5 | p6 | p7 Australia Act 1986 (Cth) Significance This document made Australian law independent of British parliaments and courts. The Commonwealth’sContinue reading “Documenting a Democracy”
True Australian History
Australia The Enigma of the Australian Pygmies Ted Rule This photograph of two small indigenous men accompanied by two men of more normal Aboriginal stature was taken at Mona Mona Mission, near Kuranda, North Queensland, in 1957. The identity and tribal connections of the men were not recorded. (Original print held by Keith Windschuttle.) ForContinue reading “True Australian History”
Australian Pygmies Exist
By Rex Gilroy Grose Valley {Little Pygmy Figure} It was dull and overcast, and a light mist was rising from the trees that 1972 morning in the Grose Valley. Geoff Norman rose from his sleeping bag. Looking at his watch he found the time to be 7am. He had arrived in the Grose Valley fromContinue reading “Australian Pygmies Exist”
Meet the Real First Australians
February 27, 2020by Obadiah 1:18 A day does not pass here in the Land of Oz without whites being reminded by the media that the dusky, angelic beings ungrammatically referred to as Aboriginals deserve unlimited amounts of cash and deference from us because of the Hitlerian behavior of our ancestors toward theirs. Aboriginal isn’t aContinue reading “Meet the Real First Australians”
The Enigma of the Australian Pygmies
Australia Ted Rule This photograph of two small indigenous men accompanied by two men of more normal Aboriginal stature was taken at Mona Mona Mission, near Kuranda, North Queensland, in 1957. The identity and tribal connections of the men were not recorded. (Original print held by Keith Windschuttle.) For reasons he did not explain, PeterContinue reading “The Enigma of the Australian Pygmies”
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”
Aborigines possibly the tenth race to have inhabited Australia
Date: September 7, 2022Author: Editor, cairnsnews 86 Comments Letter to the Editor The Torres Strait Islanders are a different race of unrelated people of Melanesian descent, their history goes back about 3,000 years diverging to a mix of Papuan and Lapita people 30,000 years ago. They are a well structured society with agriculture and productive communalContinue reading “Aborigines possibly the tenth race to have inhabited Australia”
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