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‘Indigenous Voice’ Is Australia’s He Puapua

‘Indigenous Voice’ Is Australia’s He Puapua

As New Zealand slowly wakes up to the fact that its government is attempting to impose racial separatism by stealth, it may be cold comfort to Kiwis to know that it’s being done more or less openly in Australia. In New Zealand, the separatist agenda has been exposed – for

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Are We Indigenes Yet?

Are We Indigenes Yet?

Viv Forbes The UK has seen many waves of invaders and colonisers – Neanderthals, Celts, Romans, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Danes, Norsemen, Normans and more recently Indians and Pakistanis. Only Irish, Welsh and Scottish inhabitants have had the strength to get special recognition today. No human race evolved in Australia – several races

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Jacinda Ardern: Bully China’s Pet Nerd

Jacinda Ardern: Bully China’s Pet Nerd

You can tell a lot about someone by the friends they cultivate. Friends, after all, are the people you pick, unlike your family. Australia and New Zealand are family: a pair of occasionally squabbling siblings who’ve nevertheless spent the last century more or less getting along under the same

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Australia Cuts Palestinian Aid by 25%

Naomi Levin aijac.org.au Australia’s foreign aid to the Palestinian Territories has been cut by 25% over the past year, with funding redirected and long-running programs brought to an end. The cuts – from $44.1 million in 2019/20 to $29.8 million in 2020/21 – are due

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The Blackwashing of Australian History

The Blackwashing of Australian History

You have to admire Geoffrey Blainey’s courage. His academic career was practically ended when he dared to stick his head ever so slightly above the parapet in the 1980s and murmur that perhaps unending mass immigration might be a strain on social cohesion. Perhaps appropriately for a historian, Blainey

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The Most Important Speech by a Liberal PM Since Menzies?

The Most Important Speech by a Liberal PM Since Menzies?

As I’ve written several times, Australians are simultaneously blessed and cursed with two Scott Morrisons. On the blessed side, Morrison, more than ably backed by Foreign Minister Marise Payne and Defence Minister Peter Dutton, has shown the sort of steel against China that Australians have long been crying out

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Systemic Racism in NSW Schools

Systemic Racism in NSW Schools

Gladys Berejiklian is generally regarded as one of Australia’s more sensible politicians. Apart from a notable lack of judgement in turning a studiously blind eye to a former boyfriend’s corrupt land dealings, the NSW premier mostly seems to live up to her image: a bit boring, but competent

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Denmark Follows Australia’s Lead on ‘Refugees’

Denmark Follows Australia’s Lead on ‘Refugees’

The left have long venerated Scandinavia as a model of “democratic socialism”, even though Scandinavian countries aren’t remotely socialist. A fact that former Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen was at pains to point out to Bernie Sanders in 2015. But hey, there’s still the left’s beloved

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Boris Tries His Vice Anglais on Australia

Boris Tries His Vice Anglais on Australia

The French used to refer to sadomasochism as le vice Anglais, hinting that infant exposure to harshly disciplinarian nannies bestowed the English upper-classes with a fetish for sexual humiliation. Watching the sad decline of Prince Harry – once a hulking, military blue-blood, now a snivelling, wet ginger, a George Roper in

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If Profit Is Not the Objective, What Is?

If Profit Is Not the Objective, What Is?

In a key scene in Orson Welles’s classic Citizen Kane, an outraged trustee confronts Kane at a party celebrating his purchase of a newspaper. The newspaper is a bad investment, he warns: it lost a million dollars in just the last year. Far from being chastened, Kane replies: “You’

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Hotel Quarantine Is Still a Dog

If there’s been one constant in the Wuhan plague, it’s been the utter incompetence of so many governments and bureaucracies. The almost-unbroken rule is that the more authoritarian they’ve been, the more completely, disastrously, useless they’ve been. Every time, “COVID dictators” have pursued policies that have

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If You Can’t Count, You’ll Always Fail at Maths

If You Can’t Count, You’ll Always Fail at Maths

If you’re of a certain age, you’ll remember sitting in class, robotically reciting the times tables. You’re probably hearing the sing-song in your head, right now: “One times two is two, two times two is four…” It was dull, repetitious – and absolutely foundational. You can probably almost

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Port Owner: Ready to “Respond to the Call” of China

Port Owner: Ready to “Respond to the Call” of China

Effectively selling the Port of Darwin to a Chinese-owned company is one of the most spectacular strategic idiocies of recent decades. When the Northern Territory government handed a 99-year lease over the port to Chinese owners in 2015, even the strategically inept Obama administration questioned the decision. Because, let’s

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Are We Finally Sick of COVID Fear?

Are We Finally Sick of COVID Fear?

One significant outcome of the Tasmanian election has gone barely without mention by the mainstream media: the apparent lack of a “COVID bounce”. Premier Peter Gutwein was surely banking on one, when he called an early election on the flimsy excuse of having been pushed into minority government. After all,

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Tasmania 2021: Back to the Future

Tasmania 2021: Back to the Future

Well, this weekend’s Tasmanian election seems to have been much ado about nothing. The result has left Peter Gutwein’s Liberal government exactly where they started: with a one-seat majority. Still, that’s quite an achievement in itself for Gutwein. Tasmania has long been a Labor-dominated state, and its

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