Category: Quadrant

Anthony Albanese’s first act as Prime Minister was to significantly replace two of the three Australian flags in Parliament’s House media Blue Room and replace them with the Aboriginal Flag and Torres Strait Islander ensign. Significantly, the Aboriginal Flag was in the center, with the Australian flag off to

The time has come for members of the Third Wave of immigrants who arrived in this country to gain their own Voice to parliament and be recognised in the Constitution. The Australis Statement from the Sea, named after the ship Australis (above) that brought so many migrants to these

  We owe this community an approach that honours the wisdom of the oldest living culture in the world, its elders and particularly the women. An approach that says: we believe in you. When Wik people return to activities deeply rooted in their traditions, lores and customs, I see

In 1995, the Tasmanian government passed the Aboriginal Lands Act, which created the Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania and handed over to it some fifteen sites claimed by the state’s Aboriginal activists as being of cultural significance. The Land Coun­cil was an elected body and quickly became dominated by

European exploration of Moreton Bay District started with a two-day visit by Matthew Flinders in 1799. Surveyor-General John Oxley explored the area over 11 days in 1823 and 1824. He rescued two shipwrecked sailors who had hunted, gathered and fished with local Aborigines for seven months. A penal colony

She was gorgeous, fun and I adored her, especially what I took for sincerity and honesty. A troubled youth – drugs and track-marked cowboy companions – she’d left all that behind two decades before we met, “got clean”, as she would say, “fixed myself”. It was that realistic self-appraisal,

In 2019, the Victorian government of Premier Daniel Andrews announced it would set up a First People’s Assembly to prepare for “treaty negotiations” with Aboriginal “sovereign First Nations”. One can only assume that “sovereign First Nations” is another way to describe citizens who are descendants of Aborigines who lived

I have left the Wuhan virus behind. Truth be told it was never front and centre in my mind. That is, as distinct from the grotesque and damaging measures governments imposed on their populations in attempting to contain its spread. They were front of mind and still are. I

I came across a 2013 essay in my files the other day and thought I would give it another look.  It’s  Nazi Greens – An Inconvenient History. [i]  by Martin Durkin, who produced The Great Global Warming Swindle, which describes how the modern environmental movement dips its lid to

At first glance there would seem no connection between the eastern states’ energy crisis and In Praise of Folly, an erudite satire written by a Dutch scholar in 1509 at the home of a man later beheaded for treason. At the risk of meeting a similar fate, gentle reader,

There was not a great deal of wit displayed in the 2022 Federal election campaign, with the possible exception of Pauline Hanson’s cartoon series, which had its moments. One laugh-out-loud moment, though, came in a video from Wentworth Liberal Democrat candidate Daniel Lewkovitz, who interrogated a bunch of young

There’s nothing like a gruesome massacre story to get our woke folk writhing in white guilt, even if the “massacre” is sheer malarkey. The 1804 “massacre” at Risdon Point near Hobart is a case in point. On Australia Day January 26, 2011, called “Invasion Day” by its detractors, Michael