Elisa deCourcy Australian National University Martyn Jolly Australian National University It is little wonder the life of Hemi Pomara has attracted the attention of writers and film makers. Kidnapped in the early 1840s, passed from person to person, displayed in London and ultimately abandoned, it is a story of indigenous
If you were wondering what that noise echoing across Australia last week was, it was a cacophonous wailing and gnashing of teeth issuing forth from the exclusive Sydney harbourside suburb of Ultimo. The site of this clamour of bourgeois rage and despair was the Ultimo headquarters of Australia’s billion-dollar,
Nathan Smith Chief Editor nzinitiative.org.nz As a Millennial, a worrying new trend among my generation is to simply cancel what you don’t like. Sure, some things might be outdated and it isn’t for me to tell a private company what it can or can’t do
The Red Guards of the New Cultural Revolution tear down statues and try to vindicate their ignorant vandalism by pointing to the monuments removed after the fall of the Soviet Union. But the people who survived actual communism acted in marked contrast to the mindless destruction of the idiot mobs
GOVERNMENT COMES TO NEW ZEALAND The Governor of New South Wales wants to appoint a “British Resident in New Zealand” (a position transplanted from colonial India), to go with the Justice of the Peace already appointed. The British Secretary of State approves. James Busby, a grape grower from New South
A former Canterbury Museum board member said he told the board an exhibit representing moa-hunter Maori was offensive and asked for it to be removed 15 years ago. Ko Tane Maori Cultural Experience owner Dave Brennan was appointed by his Ngai Tuahuriri runanga and Ngai Tahu iwi to represent them
Six or eight thousand years ago, they laid down the law The B-52s, “Mesopotamia”. As the left tears down more and more of our Western heritage and, not coincidentally, descend further and further into barbarism, it’s more important than ever to remember how we acquired civilisation. Civilisation didn’t
Kerrie Davies UNSW Willa McDonald Macquarie University Washington Post publisher, Philip L. Graham, famously declared that journalism is the “first rough draft of history”. It’s also the first rough draft of inspiration for movies and books “based on a true story”. Since four Victorian journalists witnessed Ned Kelly’s
Some people, it seems, are smarting from ‘white guilt’ and looking ahead in hope – of course through pink-lensed spectacles – to a chardonnay-infused, post-colonial future. One such anonymous person, considerably younger than me I must admit, wrote an open letter to his or her old private school via The Telegraph recently
An article written by Peter Jackson that was published by the NZ Herald on the 16th of June has been removed, and it has not been re-published by any other mainstream media outlet. It included comments by Ngapuhi leader David Rankin that turned the whole Black Lives Matters trend on
By 1842, 3,000 Maori had converted to Christianity. Or had they? The Maori are a complicated people. They take what they like from the new religions and convert it to their own use. Some begin to believe that they are one of the “Lost Tribes of Israel”. Others use
Lindsay Perigo solopassion.com Letter from Patrick Cooper to Gisborne Herald: In George Orwell’s “1984” he wrote that “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. History has stopped.
Welcome to the Lynching of History, I hope you’re enjoying the spurious spectacle. In the current episode, we’ve seen the super-sanctimonious eye of contemporary woke-think focused on some of the peculiarities particular to several past-performers of assumed cultural iconology. True it is that some were never deserving; our
