by FRED PAWLE – NATIVE title claims in Australia conspicuously discard connections to the real Indigenous culture that existed before white settlement. Most commentary about native title in Australia focuses on money and politics — and for good reason. To be granted…
by CRYSTAL-ROSE JONES – ABORIGINAL patients presenting to Melbourne’s St Vincent’s Hospital are given a “category 3” priority, meaning they must be treated within 30 minutes. Former nurse and now-shadow Victorian health spokeswoman Georgie Crozier has called hospital rules designed to prioritise…
by FRED PAWLE – WHILE the West wallows in disenchantment, Asians embrace our technology and consumerism with conspicuous glee. When Australians started travelling overseas en masse in the 1980s, returning home was an essential and reassuring part of the experience. Australians are…
by FRED PAWLE – THE Diggers who died defending Australia wouldn’t recognise the place now. There isn’t much about the mainstream media that is impressive these days, but it does deserve credit for seizing opportunities to promote an agenda with co-ordinated speed…
by ERIC ABETZ – VICTIM theory, which has so badly infected the Western world, has been exposed as nothing more than blaming others for personal laziness. Acceptance of responsibility is a key virtue that needs to be at the heart of individual…
by ERIC ABETZ – AUSTRALIA’S first term Labor Government is wishing and hoping that 2024 will bring with it a new start. They say a new broom sweeps clean. Most of us hope a new year will do the same. Having finished…
by DAVID FLINT – I AM often tempted to make predictions, usually about elections and referendums, especially those against the grain. So what predictions can be made about Australia’s economic future? Having escaped the disaster which would have followed had the elites…
by DAVID FLINT – IT HAS become clear that talk during the referendum about the Voice being used to close the gap was nothing more than an empty sales pitch. This explains the rejection, after a peremptory and supercilious debate, of urgency…
by PAUL COLLITS – DESPITE the humiliation of the Aboriginal activist industry post October 14, the forces of revolutionary change aren’t yet done. With more than 61 per cent of Australians flipping the bird at Indigenous exceptionalism, the sinister agenda of the…
by DAVID FLINT – TWO doomed referendums. That was predicted by this column in July 2022 about the Albanese government’s decision to hold a referendum for an indigenous Voice in the constitution. If successful, another was scheduled to follow, changing the constitution…
