Tony Thomas Quadrant Online February 6, 2025 It’s always a red-letter day when Bruce Pascoe’s charity Black Duck Foods reveals its latest accounts. The 2023-24 set, filed late last month, is doubly intriguing because Black Duck last June was in deep duck poo, judging by Pascoe’s begging email of June 26: We urgently need yourContinue reading “Black Duck, Red Ink, White Mendicant”
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Australia: a land divided into tribes
Gabriël A Moens AM and Augusto Zimmermann Getty Images Gabriël A Moens AM and Augusto Zimmermann 3 February 2025 5:11 PM One knows that an election is looming when the Prime Minister criss-crosses the country and promises to dole out money – which the government may not have – to encourage people to vote forContinue reading “Australia: a land divided into tribes”
Woke WEF appointees parrot alleged ‘indigenous answers’ to ‘climate crisis’
Date: February 8, 2025Author: Editor, cairnsnews 19 Comments BY MICHAEL SLOVANOSTHE World Economic Forum is not giving up on it’s fraudulent campaign of touting so-called “young indigenous leaders” as being the front-line troops in the fight against their phantom “climate crisis”. The New Zealand “indigenous” representative Peter-Lucas Jones has the looks of a gay manContinue reading “Woke WEF appointees parrot alleged ‘indigenous answers’ to ‘climate crisis’”
Australian Citizenship for Dummies
Phil Shannon Quadrant Online January 28, 2025 A recent Sky News Australia report revealed that one-third of those applying to become Australian citizens fail the citizenship test: only 187,574 of the 288,603 who took the test between June 2022 and August 2023.) This amount of flunking should be ringing bells about the quality of Australia’sContinue reading “Australian Citizenship for Dummies”
Why I’m proud to be Australian and reject attempts to reshape our history as one of shame
Peta Credlin The Courier Mail January 24, 2025 There is something very special about the feeling you get when you fly home from overseas and the wheels touch down in Australia. Deep down in all of us, we know that to live here is to have won the lottery of life. That’s not to sayContinue reading “Why I’m proud to be Australian and reject attempts to reshape our history as one of shame”
No, Australia was not a utopia before British arrival, but it has sure gone close since
Geoffrey Blainey The Australian January 25, 2025 We should celebrate Australia Day. By various definitions this has been one of the most successful nations in the world. During the past two centuries our nation has had far more successes than failures, though the failures can’t be overlooked: they offer lessons. Most Australians have pride inContinue reading “No, Australia was not a utopia before British arrival, but it has sure gone close since”
A nation united under one flag is worth celebrating
Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price The Australian January 24, 2025 While Australia Day comes around every year with its debates about meaning and whether we can utter its name or not, this year feels different. Last year, the divisive voice referendum and abhorrent attack in Israel on October 7, 2023 were events still fresh in ourContinue reading “A nation united under one flag is worth celebrating”
Sydney Mayor Clover Moore snubs Australia Day hands $2m to Chinese New Year mob to conduct a 19 day party
Date: January 26, 2025Author: Editor, cairnsnews 17 Comments The Founding of Australia by Captain Arthur Phillip RN, Sydney Cove, Jan 26, 1788, by Algernon Talmage, 1937. State Library NSW By Alison Bevege January 26 is not just Australia Day, it was the first settlement of Sydney. The First Fleet set up camp in Sydney Cove onContinue reading “Sydney Mayor Clover Moore snubs Australia Day hands $2m to Chinese New Year mob to conduct a 19 day party”
Australia was not invaded
Luke Powell Getty Images Luke Powell 18 January 2025 11:58 PM Was Australia invaded by Britain on January 26, 1788? For a growing number of people, our national holiday, which marks the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove, represents an ‘invasion’. According to recent polling, 69 per cent of Australians want to keepContinue reading “Australia was not invaded”
Australians built a nation – has anyone noticed?
Reg Hamilton Getty Images Reg Hamilton 8 January 2025 2:00 AM The 19th Century Prince of Sicily said in the wonderful novel The Leopard, ‘If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.’ As if putting the Prince’s words into practice, Europe invented the idea of ‘progress’. Progress was a strange thing forContinue reading “Australians built a nation – has anyone noticed?”
Labor is bribing people to join a race movement
Andrew Bolt The Herald Sun January 12, 2025 The federal Opposition Leader started the Liberals’ election campaign on Sunday with a vow to have Australians “coming together under one flag”. Pity he said it in Melbourne, which has the country’s biggest collection of three-flag Liberals, but even his wokest candidates must realise voters now hateContinue reading “Labor is bribing people to join a race movement”
The Albanese government and its agencies spent $453,000 on welcomes in the last two years
Andrew Bolt The Herald Sun January 5, 2025 Now we know for sure what a fraud these welcomes to country are. Stop press: the activists welcoming us to our own country are doing it for the cash. We’re talking about fake welcomes but real money – a race racket now worth millions of dollars. Don’tContinue reading “The Albanese government and its agencies spent $453,000 on welcomes in the last two years”
Aboriginal groups must pay the price for green activism
Andrew Bolt The Herald Sun December 19, 2024 Australians identifying as Aboriginals have used heritage laws to try to stop 30 mining and pipeline projects but just – surprise! – two green energy schemes. Let me put it this way. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act has been used against 30 projectsContinue reading “Aboriginal groups must pay the price for green activism”
Victorian treaty set to create new class of privileged Indigenous
Date: November 27, 2024Author: Editor, cairnsnews 19 Comments By MICHAEL SLOVANOSCAIRNS News and our readers might like to know how a state government in Australia such as Victoria can enter into a treaty, given that treaties come under the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade i.e. DFAT’s International Law: Advising and Treaties Section which “isContinue reading “Victorian treaty set to create new class of privileged Indigenous”
Could Premier Jacinta Allan explain why she’s even doing this?
Andrew Bolt Herald Sun November 24, 2024 The Victorian government refuses to say what it’s ready to give away as it negotiates the first state treaty with people claiming to be Aboriginal. For a start, I notice that everyone on the First Peoples Assembly that the government is negotiating with seems to have white ancestryContinue reading “Could Premier Jacinta Allan explain why she’s even doing this?”
Property ownership key to closing the gap
Nyunggai Warren Mundine AO The Australian October 25, 2024 The debate around land reform on Indigenous traditional lands has been going on for decades, and has been heated. It’s time to reignite it. A year on from the referendum, we have a government bereft of ideas and without a clue how to tackle Indigenous disadvantage.Continue reading “Property ownership key to closing the gap”
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