by CRYSTAL-ROSE JONES – THE Victorian Aboriginal Health Services has ended its alliance with Melbourne Storm after the NRL club cancelled the Indigenous Welcome to Country ceremony at its Anzac Day home game against the Rabbitohs. In a letter to Melbourne Storm…
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 SEAN BURKE – WELCOME to Country ceremonies are a money-making scam with no credible links to Indigenous culture or traditions, according to Aboriginal academic Madison King. Ms King said these ceremonies, which have been forced upon Australians for years, were a…
by ALEXANDER VOLTZ – THE claim circulating at the moment is that a cumulative $40b a year is spent, notionally, on Aboriginal Australians. It now seems that those Aborigines – be they of fair or dark skin – who live conveniently within…
by HENRY JOM – THE Presbyterian Church has banned congregations from conducting Aboriginal ceremonies during services saying it is not appropriate. The decision by the church was made at the denomination’s general assembly in Sydney last week, where it was decided the…
