Below is Channel Nine’s fairly comprehensive coverage of the festivities on Australia Day. Among the scenes of the recognisable Marxist-inspired hatred, in this instance through whipped-up, white Aboriginal fury, we see mostly peaceful scenes of Australians marching with their flag held proudly aloft.
Imagine if an Australian burnt the Aboriginal flag, a political creation in 1971. There would be combustible outrage.
To top off the hate-filled scenes, we see the radical Palestinian flag, fluttering over the white-hot hatred to demonstrate the treachery, treason, and cowardice of our so-called leaders.
The inimitable ABC has provided a national platform for white, reinvented Aboriginal Tony Amstrong to spew his hatred of white people and the nation they created on which he sits in all his parasitic glory. NB: Armstrong has a white mother.
ANDREW BOLT: ABC’s ‘divisive new TV show’ released just in time to ‘trash’ Australia Day
‘For more than half a century, one of Australia’s most prominent historians, Keith Windschuttle, demonstrated how large parts of Australian historiography abandoned evidence in favour of politically useful invention.’
The Fabricated ‘Invasion’
Robert Hill, Quadrant, Jan 17 2026
History is not a matter of feeling. It is constrained by numbers, capacity, logistics, and human organisation. When those constraints are discarded, history is not reinterpreted; it is fabricated.
For more than half a century, one of Australia’s most prominent historians, Keith Windschuttle, demonstrated how large parts of Australian historiography abandoned evidence in favour of politically useful invention. He showed how, once facts become inconvenient, they are quietly replaced with conjecture, inflation, and narrative assertion. The result is not a difference of emphasis, but the construction of an entirely fictitious past.
The modern claim that Australia was “invaded” in 1788 is sustained only by redefining invasion until it means nothing at all. It survives only by emptying the word invasion of all meaning and redeploying it as a delegitimising device: a term used not to describe what occurred, but to imply that the British settlement itself was unlawful or morally void from the outset.
Taken to its logical conclusion, this distortion no longer describes a historical event at all. Australia Day becomes not a commemoration of a specific occurrence, but a site of symbolic competition. Invasion Day, Survival Day, Day of Mourning — each renaming widens the moral claim while narrowing the history. The particular fate of the Gadigal is no longer examined on its own terms but abstracted into emblem and slogan, their world dissolved into an ever-renewing language of activism. As names multiply, meaning thins, and historical fact is progressively displaced.
An invasion presupposes organised defenders, opposing forces, surplus military power, and the violent seizure and holding of territory from a society capable of resisting. None of these conditions existed at Sydney Cove.
A Landing Is Not an Invasion
To say Australia was “invaded” because British ships landed at Sydney Cove is to collapse distance, scale, and political reality into a slogan. From a continental perspective, it is akin to claiming that France, Portugal, and Denmark were all invaded simultaneously because a number foreign vessels came ashore in Greece. A localised landing does not constitute the invasion of an entire continent, particularly where there was no relationship with, nor knowledge of the vast majority of that landmass. Australia, by scale alone, is roughly twice as large as Western Europe.
Vandals have defaced two historic monuments in the lead-up to Australia Day despite efforts to protect against targeted attacks.
“Death to ‘Australia'” was spray-painted on one of the two statues targeted between Wednesday night and Thursday morning at Melbourne’s oldest park, Flagstaff Gardens.
Heavy machinery was used to tear down the Pioneer monument, erected in 1871, before the badly-damaged ruins were vandalised, police believe.
The five-metre tall, sandstone obelisk marks the city’s first burial site.
The nearby Separation memorial, erected in 1950 to commemorate the founding of the Victorian colony a century earlier, was similarly defaced.
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Each year, Marxist vandals are left free to vandalise monuments around the city dedicated to the achievements of the Australian nation, a nation built by the settlers and their descendants. Aboriginals, and even less white reinvented Aborginals, had nothing to do with the nation known as Australia.
We know they are Marxist parasites because we see them and their banners, flags and emblems in the various marches, especially around Australia Day.
‘”This sort of behaviour will not and cannot be tolerated in Melbourne,” Melbourne’s Lord Mayor Nicholas Reece told ABC Radio on Thursday morning.’
Wacko, you go it, Nicholas. You’ll really scare these Marxist thugs.
Nothing will be done. It’ll happen next year unless someone has the guts to go in hard on the creeps responsible. I mean, really hard, devastatingly hard, blood and guts hard. Everyone in the media knows where to find them.
Shocking though it was, I was not at all surprised that two men from a particular community in Sydney gunned down innocent Australians enjoying a picnic. The signs were all over the place, in Australia and throughout Europe, especially in countries with large migrant populations from the Middle East.
We’ve had fifty years of terrorism. We know what it is and where it comes from. It was simply to be expected that two men would emerge from the protection of that community and, with relish, kill innocent people.
You would have to be culpably naive or partisan not to realise that others with the same views and intentions were residing in that same community – and planning for action.
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PhD candidate Sepehr Saryazdi, accused of planning terror attack on Australia Day, denied bail
Sepehr Saryazdi appeared in Brisbane Magistrates Court on Thursday. (Supplied)
A CSIRO PhD candidate accused of planning to use Molotov cocktails in a terror attack on the Gold Coast on Australia Day has been denied bail.
Sepehr Saryazdi appeared in the Brisbane Magistrates Court on Thursday after being charged with one count of acts in preparation for or planning a terrorist act.
During a bail application, the court heard the 24-year-old had been brought to the attention of counter terrorism officers after information was received about things he was allegedly posting online.
Commonwealth prosecutor Ellie McDonald told the court the alleged offending related to Facebook messenger chats within a private group containing over 50 people.
Ms McDonald told the court he had allegedly also encouraged others to do the same.
“He says: ‘I will be leading the Gold Coast riots on Jan 26 if you guys know people in Melbourne, let them know so they can start buying vodka bottles early to stockpile in batches,'” she said.
“He also states: ‘if arrested the key is to stay calm and collected, when put into questioning remind them what you did is purely logical given the current trajectory of this nation.'”
Ms McDonald told the court he also allegedly told the group members they “need to make the police doubt their own world views and convince them to quit their job”.
“Feminism has always been a force for good and equality.” Is that really true? In this conversation with retired Professor Janice Fiamengo, we examine feminism’s actual origins, its pervasive influence on modern relationships, and why so many men and women are waking up to a very different reality than what we’ve been told.
Professor Janice Fiamengo, creator of The Fiamengo Files video series and author of Sons of Feminism, joins me for an unflinching look at how feminist ideology has shaped our attitudes toward men, marriage, and family life. From classrooms teaching children that men are the problem, to therapy rooms filled with women who’ve been taught to fear and distrust their husbands, we explore how these ideas have taken root and what the cost has been to both sexes.
This conversation challenges the narrative that feminism’s only critics are those who hate women or want to deny them opportunities. Instead, we examine the historical record, question why certain perspectives have been suppressed, and ask what happens to societies that tell men they don’t matter.
Multiple surveys (see, for example, with thanks to James Nuzzo, here, here, here, here, here and here) suggest that when women hold power, they pursue typically feminine preferences and policies. Female-led institutions become more oriented to social justice than objective truth. Feelings matter above facts, context above law, and victimhood above expertise.
Matt Taylor, eventually forced to apologize and cry in public for his sin of wearing an ‘inappropriate shirt’ in interview, after leading a team that put a probe on a comet in 2014
Moreover, our ability to discuss this feminine revolution in values is hampered by the very logic of the revolution, as I will show. Both women and men, deeply disinclined to “harm” women, fail to confront the problem adequately.
Two discussions of the subject—an essay by two social psychologists at Quillette and, more recently, a conference speech by a feisty conservative woman—draw a line under the seeming inevitability of the west’s collapse. Even faced with that alarming prospect, most pundits cannot bear to imagine an alternative to the female-led assault on our core institutions.
Cheering on Women’s Empowerment
A 2022 article in Quillette, “Sex and the Academy,” provides a stark illustration of my thesis. The subtitle rules out the very conclusion the data supports, with the authors emphasizing that “The inclusion of women in higher education is a great achievement for Western liberal societies. How is this changing academic culture?”
The “great achievement,” as it turns out, will almost certainly be a lethal one.
The article was written by two academics, Cory Clark and Bo Winegard, both PhDs in social psychology. Winegard, a male scholar, had an unfortunate run-in with academic orthodoxy that led to his loss of employment; Clark, a female scholar, has a secure academic position. Both authors express enthusiasm for the takeover of academia by women even as they point out its damaging consequences. Neither one advocates any form of resistance, no matter how mild, to feminine academia’s assault on truth.
Despite rejecting his status as a historian, Robert Hill, who frequently writes for Quadrant, is one of the best contemporary commentators on colonial history. He makes laughable some of the ‘historical’ claims by white reinvented Aboriginals who are mounting a coup rather than an attempt at separatism – so successful has their political activism been. He has produced a book (see link below) that can be downloaded free of charge.
THE LAST OF THE GADIGAL A Short work on early Sydney and the myth of invasion Robert Hill
It’s been a busy year in writing scams (but then what year isn’t?). From the new AI marketing scams, to nasty contract clauses, to publishers behaving badly, to the biggest copyright infringement restitution in history, Writer Beware has been on the beat. If you missed any of our posts, here’s your chance to catch up.
On a personal note, it’s always instructive for me to do these overviews, not just because they help me take stock of how well Writer Beware is fulfilling its mission, but also because looking at the trends and changes of the year just past can give me a sense of what I’ll likely be focusing on in the year ahead. I was a little surprised, for example, to see how much space I devoted to generative AI.
Also somewhat surprising: scams are what most people think of when they think of Writer Beware, but my posts about scams actually comprised less than half of what I published in 2025. Just a reminder that “beware” applies to much more than literary fraud.
A New “Beware”: AI-Driven Nigerian Marketing Scams
Ramping up more quickly than any scam I’ve ever seen, Nigerian marketing scams burst on the scene in the late spring and early summer of 2025, in the form of highly personalized emails from alleged marketing experts with often odd Gmail addresses and a suspicious lack of web presence. Authentic-seeming (AI-generated) plot details, bolstered by (also AI-generated) over-the-top praise, made it seem the purported marketer really had read the books and that the promotional services on offer had been carefully targeted. For payment, writers were referred to Nigerian third parties, described as “assistants” or “payment processors”, via job sites like Upwork or bank transfers to accounts at Wells Fargo and Lead Bank.
