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The Myths of Indigenous History
Professor Nigel Biggar and Dr Stephen Chavura discuss the historical nonsense that is shoved down the public’s throats and is force-fed to our schoolchildren.
For examples of state indoctrination, there’s no need to go to Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union or Communist China. We have our own indefatigable Goebbelses, beginning with the government-funded ABC and SBS.
1960s Part 1
Mervyn Bendle’s series of three articles in Quadrant is of particular interest to me because the 1960s is the setting of my Sixties Series. The articles make interesting background reading for my series.
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Liza’s Journey: Australia in the Sixties
Mervyn Bendle, Quadrant, Dec 06 2025
This is the first of three articles that tracks a young woman’s intellectual and emotional journey through the 1960s in Australia. It was inspired by the book, play, film, and TV series, Ladies in Black, set around Christmas 1959, which focusses on Leslie, a shy, naïve, bookish, and mousy 16-year-old schoolgirl who takes a summer job in the high-end fashion section at Goode’s, a prestigious Sydney department store, while awaiting her exam results.
An only child in a working class family, Leslie had excelled at school and looks forward to going to university, where she can study literature and pursue her dream of becoming a poet. At Goode’s she is befriended by the older sales assistants and becomes part of their lives, changes her name to a more poetic and feminine ‘Lisa’, is introduced to the many social and cultural changes happening to Australian society, and begins her transformation into a confident, stylish, and worldly-wise young woman.
Or does she? This series of articles looks at the world that another fictional young woman, Liza (name changed for copyright reasons), might enter after she leaves her holiday job and begins literary studies at the University of Sydney. It briefly reviews the international scene at the height of the Cold War as it impacted on Australia, and the nature of Australian society as it left the conservatism of the 1950s and plunged into the radical changes of the 1960s. It then takes a more detailed look at life in Sydney at the time, including the activities of the ‘Sydney Push’, the bohemian vanguard of intellectual, cultural, and romantic life that flourished around the University, and into which any young aspiring poet and intellectual like Liza would have been drawn.
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Liza didn’t know what to make of it! It was if those exciting movies, The Wild One (1953) and Rebel Without a Cause (1955), had both come to life in Sydney! Kevin Simmonds was renowned as “Australia’s most fearless jail escapee whose Hollywood looks made him a teen idol as he ran circles around police”. Kevin (right) had been in trouble with the police since he was 14 for car theft and burglary, and after several stints in Boys Town and a Youth Training Centre, he eventually spent two years in Goulburn Gaol. A talented singer and musician – he had even cut a few records – he charmed the magistrate into sending him there because of its music program and, he said, because he wanted to hone his skills so he could go straight when he was released. In reality, he just wanted to be reunited with a mate so they could plan the jobs they’d do when they got out.
Invasion day march
Hatred, flag burning, antisemitic abuse, Palestinian flags, and so much more
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 ABC sponsoring hatred – again
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
Making up history
‘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.’
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.
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.
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.
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A Short work on early Sydney and the myth of invasion
Robert Hill