I have never read the “First Knowledges” box set and, after a decade spent immersed in this field, probably never will. That is not intellectual laziness. It is recognition of a relentless and deceitful genre. The first box set of six books was released in 2023 and in June this year we are told we will be privileged to have a box set of 10 books for $195.
This article is not a review of the 10 books but rather a consideration of a cultural moment: one in which Aboriginal Australia has been steadily transformed from a small-scale hunter-gatherer society into a profound ‘civilisation’ of extraordinary sophistication retrospectively credited with astronomy, engineering, politics, mathematics, economics, architecture, agriculture and environmental science in forms supposedly hidden from every serious observer until the present age.
The boxed set represents perhaps the most elaborate construction yet assembled within this broader movement of institutional mythmaking, one in which historical restraint has steadily collapsed and the ordinary boundaries between evidence, speculation, and fantasy have become increasingly blurred. Yet given the continuing incentives within universities, publishing, government institutions, and ARC-funded research to reward ever more expansive reinterpretation, it is entirely possible that further cards remain to be added to the structure.
It’s in vogue for the woke class – appointing coal black actors to play characters from lily-white stories, sometimes centuries-old, and concocting history as a demonstration that objections are racially motivated. The American feminist program ‘The View’ is shamelessly guilty of this propaganda trick. Of course, in Australia we have battalions of government-funded academics busy spinning the most preposterous ‘histories’ of the Aboriginals.
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We’ve seen the latest woke campaign all over the place. The campaign is to replace Australian place names with Aboriginal names, or to name any area according to the Aboriginal tribal name. Government-funded SBS is the leader of this pure-gold woke endeavour, followed closely by the government-funded ABC and – wait for it – government-owned Australia Post. Australia Post urges its customers to include the Aboriginal place or area name in all their posts.
Changing place names is an essential part of the white-Aboriginal coup that aims to have all things Aboriginal permeate the Australian culture, whose foundations are European and British Isles. Of course, such a coup would not be possible without the complicity of the treacherous dominant political class.
‘The Aboriginal Land Rights Act was a Whitlam-era ideological experiment premised on the fantasy that land transfer and autonomy would allow Aboriginal people to revert to a viable “traditional” existence inside a modern nation-state. Wadeye is the living wreckage of that idea.
‘Fifty years on, it has no real economy, no self-sufficiency, no civic order, and no credible path forward. Land has been handed over, and the result is not empowerment but stagnation, violence, and permanent dependency. Wadeye is not transitional. It is the end state of a policy that mistook symbolic restitution for governance. No government has been willing to confront or unwind the model, because any attempt at reform is immediately racialised and treated as illegitimate . . .
‘The Northern Land Council is not a marginal or impoverished body. It is one of the wealthiest statutory land councils in Australia, controlling vast territories, negotiating resource agreements worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and maintaining substantial financial reserves. It asserts authority over land use, access, and exclusion, yet disclaims any operational responsibility for safety, order, or civil peace on the land it controls.’
The video below is a terrific portrayal of the growth of Australia’s first major city, Sydney. It shows the miracle of Sydney after the miracle of settlement – sailing 11 ships across mostly uncharted parts of the world to found a settlement.
Australia is one of the only places where humans maintained a hunter-gatherer lifestyle into the modern era. This makes it an invaluable window into humanity’s deep past—a window that is closing, writes Mungo Manic. This video explores the complexities surrounding the identity and history of Aboriginal Australians, particularly focusing on the distinction between contemporary Aboriginal Australians and the pre-colonial foragers. It delves into the impact of colonization on these communities, the ambiguity of Aboriginal identity, and the challenges faced in preserving the archaeological and cultural heritage of Australia’s forager past.
Many observers, including me, warned in the past that Aboriginals, mostly reinvented White-Aboriginals, were agitating for a separatist, parasitic state. We were wrong. The objective, successfully being pursued, is to ensure that the recently concocted White-Aboriginal ideology permeates all corners of the Australian nation. We are talking about a government coup.
White-Aboriginal commissars oversee the implementation and enforce fidelity.
The Quadrant article by Robert Hill below raises the curtain on the sabotage of Australia’s universities. Quadrant Magazine and Quadrant Online are providing the best and most sustained commentary on the White-Aboriginal battlefront.
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Knowing by Not Knowing
Robert Hill, Quadrant, 9 Feb 2026
Across the Australian university sector, Indigenous executive governance has become effectively mandatory. As of the most recent sector reporting, approximately 33 of Australia’s 37 public universities have installed a Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous), Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous), or a formally equivalent executive office, with the remainder either in transition or operating under substantively identical arrangements. This near-total saturation is not grounded in institutional necessity or disciplinary demand but in a presumption that Aboriginal “ways of knowing” must be embedded across all disciplines. It is asserted as self-justifying, a moral imperative that demands compliance rather than explanation.
These roles function less like heads of academic departments and more like central policy authorities. They set Indigenous strategies and compliance frameworks that apply across the entire institution, irrespective of discipline. Faculties are required to align with these frameworks in curriculum design, assessment standards, research priorities, and public communication, including the mandatory embedding of institution-approved Indigenous content across degree programs.
Crucially, this requirement is not optional for students. Indigenous content is not merely recommended or presented as contestable cultural material. Students are required to undertake prescribed Indigenous modules or units, to read specified material, and to pass assessments based on that material in order to progress or graduate, regardless of discipline. This compulsory curriculum embedding is the cornerstone of Indigenous executive governance: it is the primary mechanism through which institution-wide compliance is enforced. The content is typically presented as authoritative rather than evidentiary, and students are assessed on comprehension and acceptance rather than critical evaluation in the ordinary academic sense.
These offices also oversee or directly influence Indigenous admissions pathways, student support schemes, employment targets, and reconciliation compliance metrics — all of which now rank among universities’ highest institutional priorities. While presented as support mechanisms, they operate as binding governance instruments with enforceable expectations.
