Marxist vandals have free hand

Australia Associated Press reported today:

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.

Feminism and marriage

Laura How

“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.

The Myth of Invasion

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

Download the book here . . .

Book scams everywhere

Best of Writer Beware: 2025 in Review

POSTED BY VICTORIA-STRAUSS FOR WRITER BEWARE® ON 

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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.

Read the rest here . . .

Louise Adler leads a sunburst of Woke hypocrisy

Louise Adler, publishing identity and Director of The Adelaide Writers’ Week, resigned her position over the decision to cancel the appearance of ‘Palestinian-Australian’ author Randa Abdel-Fattah.

More than 150 authors decided to boycott the festival for the same reason Adler stepped down. In the video below, Adler and a sample of authors stated unambiguously that the issue was about free speech.

Don’t make me laugh.

Everyone connected with books and writing knows that the many writer festivals across Australia, funded by government largesse, are woke/feminist affairs. You simply don’t get a guernsey if you depart from the ideology. Indeed, you don’t get a publishing gig unless you have your woke credentials.