by KEVIN DONNELLY – THE Indigenous Welcome to Country is so widespread that it’s heard at sporting events, at the start of public meetings and during musical events, the theatre and ballet. It’s even printed on receipts issued at Coles supermarkets and…
by ANTHONY DILLON – PLENTY has been said about the proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament; some of it has been thought provoking, and much of it unfortunately, has just been the regurgitation of past offerings. We currently have one side saying it’s…
FORMER Prime Minister John Howard has described Labor’s efforts to implement an Indigenous Voice as suspicious, saying the Coalition appeared increasing hostile to the idea. Mr Howard said there were substantial arguments against the Voice and that it was unlikely to be…
ABORIGINAL leader Warren Mundine has warned Australians were being deceived with tricks and emotive language into supporting an Aboriginal Voice. In an article appearing in The Australian newspaper this week the author and businessman described the Voice as nothing more than a…
by NINA NGUYEN – FRAMING Aboriginals as victims removes individual responsibility and denies them the opportunity to flourish, according to Indigenous Senator Jacinta Price. The Country Liberal Party senator for Northern Territory said last week this approach creates the expectation that the…
by DAVID FLINT – Sir Robert Menzies was, of course, not infallible. But he was right in his strong belief that while everything should be done to improve the welfare of the Aboriginal people, it would be a serious mistake to endow…
by WARREN MUNDINE – WHILE Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his minister for Indigenous affairs frolic together with NBA basketball legend Shaquille O’Neal, the proposal for an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament, devolves into a bully pulpit for elitists,…
by ALEXANDER VOLTZ – WHEN we consider which eminent citizen amongst us we might place our trust in if Australia were ever to become a republic, I can think of no better candidate for the office of President than Senator Lidia Alma…
by GABRIEL MOENS – PM ANTHONY Albanese used an address at an Indigenous Festival in the Northern Territory last month to reveal the referendum question to be put to the Australian people to enshrine the Voice in the Constitution. Although it is…
by DAVID FLINT – THE Albanese government claims a mandate to impose certain policies, some of which will seriously damage Australia. Take just four of the most prominent and permit me to describe them, not as the spin-doctors do, but in accordance…
