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The Australian War Memorial scandal

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The AWM and Historians’ Made-up Wars

Robert Hill, Quadrant, Aug 28 2026

On November 14, 2025, Rachel Perkins and Henry Reynolds came to the Australian War Memorial to launch The Australian Wars, a collection edited by Perkins, Stephen Gapps, Mina Murray and Reynolds. There is nothing remarkable about a work of military history being launched at the War Memorial; it is precisely where one might expect such a book to be presented and sold. What was remarkable was that The Australian Wars does not establish its subject as military history so much as assert it. The book presents a politically and ideologically charged reconstruction of colonial violence as warfare, yet the military characteristics necessary to sustain that classification are not merely contested: when examined, they are strikingly absent. Its launch inside the Memorial, and its inclusion within the Memorial’s bookshop, therefore, did more than promote a book: it bestowed institutional legitimacy upon the conclusion before the historical case had been made.

The issue is not whether violence occurred on the British colonial frontier in Australia — hereafter, the “British frontier”. Aboriginal people were killed, settlers were killed, massacres occurred and reprisals followed. The far larger claim is that these events amounted to wars: conflicts properly belonging to the same historical category as the wars and military operations commemorated within the Australian War Memorial. That distinction matters. Much of the alleged warfare occurred not on the frontier of an Australian nation, but on the frontiers of separate British colonies under the Crown. To place those conflicts within the Australian War Memorial therefore requires more than demonstrating colonial violence. It requires demonstrating that the historical threshold of war was actually met. That proposition deserves something stronger than repetition, moral force or modern consensus.

It requires proof. 

In my earlier article at Quadrant Online, The ‘Wars’ That Weren’t, I demonstrated that once the constituent incidents are disaggregated, the national “Frontier Wars” narrative loses its military coherence. What remains are separate episodes of killing, reprisal, policing and local resistance. Here I reach the same conclusion from the opposite direction. If these really were wars, where is the military footprint they should have left behind?

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Mehreen Faruqi – suffering from white-skin envy

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Senator Mehreen Faruqi comes from one of the backward sh*tholes of Asia, a country that is presently torturing one of its heroes, a man that would be a hero in any country of the West, a dashing, handsome, swash-buckling, all-round cricketer that thrilled stadiums with his cricketing feats. Regrettably, Faruqi belongs to the class of Imran Khan’s tormenters.

And she’s in Australia, abusing the people and the country that have given her a life that is light years away from the degradation most of her fellow-countrymen suffer: a salary well above the ordinary Australian battler, the means to invest and profit from her investments, and a platform from which to preach her far-left ideas and abuse the people that allowed her into their country.

Sadly, for Faruqi, despite all the benefits accrued to her by her position in Australia, she cannot change her skin which is why she constantly refers to its colour.

Russia’s hybrid war

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Below is an excellent interview with Sean Wiswesser, author of TRADECRAFT, TACTICS AND DIRTY TRICKS: RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE & PUTIN’S SECRET WAR

Hybrid warfare is a strategy that blends conventional military force with non‑military tools—such as cyberattacks, disinformation, economic pressure, and proxy actors—to achieve political objectives while staying below the threshold of open war.

Hybrid warfare integrates multiple instruments of power—military, political, economic, informational, and technological—to exploit ambiguity and weaken an opponent without triggering full-scale conflict. It deliberately blurs the lines between war and peace, state and non‑state actors, and overt and covert action.

Endemic violence in primitive communities

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A Blood-Soaked Land: Part II

Robert Hill, Quadrant, Aug 21 2026

Cultural lethal violence was institutionalised in Aboriginal societies in a way that sustained warfare was not. Payback and retaliatory punishment could be socially sanctioned or obligatory, but there were no standing armies, permanent commands or institutions for sustained military campaigning. The deep record is therefore one of recurring lethal violence, not continuous war.

The same caution should apply to the frontier. Killing, reprisal and punitive expedition did not automatically become “war” merely because one participant was British. Yet modern revisionism increasingly reverses the categories: raid and reprisal between Aboriginal groups remain “feud” or “payback”, while analogous episodes involving the British are aggregated across decades and vast distances into “Frontier Wars”. In the process, scattered resistance is retrospectively endowed with a military coherence the underlying social organisation did not possess.

Demographically, the terminology changes nothing. A man killed in revenge is no less dead because his death is called payback rather than warfare. What matters is frequency, lethality and persistence.

Comparative anthropology reinforces the distinction. Lawrence Keeley, professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago and author of the influential Oxford University Press study War Before Civilization, showed from archaeological and ethnographic evidence that recurring raids and relatively small clashes could impose heavy proportional losses on non-state populations. More revealing still are anthropologists Douglas Fry and Patrik Söderberg. In a peer-reviewed 2013 study published in Science, they systematically examined lethal aggression in 21 mobile forager societies drawn from the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample. Their conclusion cuts against claims of ubiquitous primitive warfare: most lethal incidents were homicide, interpersonal disputes or feud, while warfare constituted only a minority.

That does not weaken the argument. It defines it.

Read the rest HERE . . .

Read Robert Hill’s The myth of Invasion

Update on CIA Moscow visit

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Many analysts say that the CIA director’s visit to Moscow was to warn the psychopaths in the Kremlin not to embark on action too provocative to ignore. The Russian government’s hostility towards the democratic West has not subsided – indeed has never changed. We in the West are the eternal enemy. Most of us don’t realise that we are constantly trying to appease an enemy that will never be appeased. Now, the American intelligence community thinks the Kremlin’s hybrid war of subversion and infrastructure assaults threatens to escalate to military action in the Baltic states. The message to Moscow: don’t do it. That was the message to psychotic Putin before the Ukraine attack. It’s likely he’ll bare his bum to the second visit.

Towards the end of the video below is the warning to Europeans to prepare for possible disruption to critical parts of their infrastructure. Stock up for at least four days. We in Australia are not too far away to escape the disruption. We need to act resolutely. But our problem is that the country has been feminised, and thus weakened.

Interview with former MI6 Chief Richard Moore

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This is an excellent, enlightening view of the world of a secret intelligence service. People in the West must know that especially Chinese, Russian and Iranian spies are among them. China wants control and expects all Chinese abroad to gather intelligence – I mean all Chinese. Chinese communities abroad are considered part of China, with their first allegiance to the PRC. The PRC even have their own police stations in some countries in order to keep a check on what they’re up to. The Russians are busy conducting a hybrid warfare against those thwarting their attempts to claim Ukraine.

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For nearly 40 years, Richard Moore was a career spy in the UK’s secret intelligence service. He was unable to tell all but his closest friends and family what he did for a living. When he was appointed chief of MI6 in 2020, that changed: The name of the person in the agency’s top job is the only one made public.
In his first interview since leaving the role in Sept. 2025, Moore talks to The Mishal Husain Show about managing China’s security threat, the psychology of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and why spies shouldn’t expect recognition. See my page on Spycraft and Espionage.