Females head up Australia’s two biggest airlines. One of those female CEOs has publicly stated that she will follow quota guidelines for recruiting airline staff, including pilots. Pilots will be chosen based on identity rather than competence.
Sorry, I’m not stepping onto a plane without knowing who’s flying it. That will probably never happen again.
Two courageous women chatting: Dr Joanna Howe interviewing Pauline Hanson.
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.
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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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.
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.’
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.
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.
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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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”.
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
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A Short work on early Sydney and the myth of invasion
Robert Hill