There’s an easy solution to the Annual Festival of Lefty Whining in the week leading up to Australia Day: let’s all ‘identify’ as ‘indigenous’. After all, as opinion polls show, Australians overwhelmingly – and in increasing numbers – endorse January 26 as our national holiday. If all those Australians suddenly become ‘indigenous’, then the argument that ‘indigenous people are offended’ by Australia Day vanishes faster than an unattended can of petrol in a remote community.
There’s only one problem: we’d be a bit late to the party. Plenty of white folks have been ‘identifying’ as ‘indigenous’ for years – and it’s such a nice little earner that they’ll undoubtedly fight tooth and nail to keep the rest of us out of the taxpayer-funded trough.
Welcome to pretendianism, a form of indigenous identity fraud that is rife around the world.
The identity cultural shapeshifting is driven by blurry lines on indigenous identity where self-identification on its own is inadequate and open to deceit.
Did somebody say ‘Bruce Pascoe’? Pfft. Amateur.
In Canada, conspiracist Romana Didulo holds an array of self-appointed titles that would have made 1970s Ugandan dictator Idi Amin blush. The self-declared queen of Canada also refers to herself as president and national indigenous chief of the kingdom of Canada. The QAnon wacko, who claims to commune with aliens regularly, was born in The Philippines […]
University of Saskatchewan professor, Carrie Bourassa [aka ‘Morning Star Bear’] … was regarded as one of the most respected voices on indigenous health in Canada. She had been a professor in the department of community health and epidemiology at the University of Saskatchewan and scientific director of the Canadian Institute of Indigenous Peoples’ Health.
For all the cosplay and displays of emotion, Bourassa was not indigenous.
At least Bourassa resigned in 2021 after her fraud was exposed. Our troughers are far more tenacious: exhaustive investigation has traced every branch of Bruce Pascoe’s family tree to England. He still rakes in a nice little earner as an ‘indigenous’ academic. Pascoe’s fraudulent claims to Tasmanian Aboriginal ancestry are furiously denied by activist Michael Mansell. One can be excused for suspecting that blond, blue-eyed Mansell is just afraid of having to fight off newcomer pretenders with their hands out, too.
The ‘box-tickers’, as they are known in more authentically Aboriginal circles, certainly have a lot to hold out for. ‘Smoking ceremonies’ and ‘Welcome to Country’ ceremonies – the latter a demonstrably modern fabrication – will stiff everyone from local sports clubs to councils thousands of dollars a pop. For large events, like AFL games, the fees are in the tens to hundreds of thousands.
All that money, just for some white person smeared with a bit of ochre to wave some gum leaves around and babble some faux-‘cultural’ nonsense.
But that’s just the beginning of the nonsense peddled ahead of Australia Day and too often perpetrated by left-dominated local government.
Thankfully, some councils are wising up.
The handing-out of a double-sided Australian and Aboriginal flag at citizenship ceremonies on the Gold Coast has been axed by the Gold Coast City Council after complaints by residents and its own elected officials.
Ahead of the year’s biggest citizenship ceremony on Australia Day, the flags were quietly binned by the council after having initially been distributed at a ceremony in September […]
Staff within the events planning team of Queensland’s second-largest council are understood to have used ratepayer funds to pay for the flags.
Gold Coast mayor Tom Tate distanced himself from the flags, with his office confirming their distribution had been cancelled for all future council-hosted citizenship ceremonies, including the Australia Day event in which 400 new Australians are expected to take the oath.
Local councillor Brooke Patterson blamed the fiasco on ‘a young team’. In other words, the sort of Zoomer half-wits with communications degrees who keep convincing corporate Australia to go woke and go broke and piss off the rest of the country.
Presumably these over-paid, over-educated idiots were unaware of the law surrounding Australia’s flag, which prohibits two flags being flown from the same pole.
Much less a flag which doesn’t represent nearly 97 per cent of Australians. The national flag, on the other hand, represents all of us.
Opposition Indigenous Australians spokeswoman Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price described the dual-sided flag as “ludicrous” and said it showed a fundamental ignorance of the national flag’s meaning […]
Senator Price told The Australian she was outraged by the decision to distribute the two-side flags. “The Australian flag is representative of the Australian people and, therefore, I believe it should be the only flag that applies during Australian citizenship ceremonies,” Ms Price said.
“The Aboriginal flag is not a national flag […] Activism and division doesn’t bring communities together.”
Price’s mistake here is to assume that such activists want to bring communities together.
