Category Archives: Colonial history

Concocting history – the non-existence wars with the Aborigines

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Robert Hill is at the forefront of those powerfully challenging the stories concocted by government-funded groups who are furiously rewriting Australian history. A curse on those institutions that ought to defend Australia but are collapsing like a house of cards. Australians need someone like Pauline Hanson to have the guts not only to defend the truth but to stop the colossal amounts of money going to the fat cats of the Aboriginal industry.

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The ‘Wars’ That Weren’t

Robert Hill, Quadrant, Jun 23 2026

Reports and Senate Estimates evidence suggest there is a “Frontier Wars” display being developed within the Australian War Memorial’s pre-1914 treatment, with  suggestions that the relevant pre-1914 gallery space may be around 400 square metres. The precise public plan remains difficult to identify, which is itself part of the problem.

There is no publicly available record that explains the evidentiary basis for the inclusion of such a gallery and its contravention of the AWM charter. No clear public criteria have been produced. No public account explains how the Memorial proposes to distinguish war from massacre, reprisal, murder, policing, punitive expedition, settler violence, food raiding, stock spearing or localised tribal conflict.

The War Memorial has attempted to justify the language of war on its own website. But in doing so it avoids the central problem. The Australian frontier was not a war merely because later writers called it one, or because violence occurred over a long period. On examination, the frontier does not meet the very tests the Memorial invokes: organised political violence, military purpose, identifiable belligerents, command structures, campaigns, warlike conduct against armed authority, or recognisable military outcomes.

The result is predictable. Something that was not Australian in any national military sense, and was not war in any ordinary military sense, is now to be memorialised without clear public criteria, without visible evidentiary justification, and almost certainly in a selective ideological form.

The Australian War Memorial is hosting a two-day conference on September 17/18 titled Imperialism and Resistance: Australia’s First Wars. It marks a profound institutional shift. The frontier is no longer being presented as a contested historical question. It is being framed as a settled conclusion. The conference appears designed to legitimise the illegitimate: to give institutional cover to a claim the Memorial has not publicly justified, and which sits uneasily with its statutory purpose of Australian military remembrance.

The title itself does the work: Australia’s First Wars.

Not frontier violence. Not colonial conflict. Not dispossession. Not massacre, reprisal, police action, local resistance or criminal violence.

“Wars.”

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What is the Australian character and culture?

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Many Australians are reacting fiercely today to threats to Australia’s character and culture from ideological or national groups. What character and culture, some are asking? Indeed, the more extreme deny that such a character and culture exist. In the final chapter of my book, PRISON HULK TO REDEMPTION, I sketch what I understand as Australia’s character and culture.

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An excerpt from chapter 19, ‘Cultural Continuities in 1900’, Prison Hulk to Redemption, available through Amazon.

From the outset [of Prison Hulk to Redemption], I endeavoured to depict a new, independent nation emerging from Captain Phillip’s seminal act of planting the Union Jack in the soil of Sydney Cove. In a remarkably short time, the inaugural members of this new nation began to refer to their land and themselves as Australia and Australians, though still closely connected to their origins in the British Isles. The fiery and intemperate William Charles Wentworth embodied those who experienced no doubts about themselves and the new nation they were forging. But what, precisely, does this Australianness entail?

Australianness represents a profound modification of Britishness, the unifying culture of the British Isles—England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland—rooted in the broader culture of Christian Europe. Although Australians retained many traditions, customs, and social and political institutions from Great Britain, as well as the arts and literature, and were content to do so, their experiences led them to develop fundamentally distinct identities from their counterparts in the British Isles. The varied physical environment contributed to the emergence of a unique, independent expression of Britishness. Consequently, all traditions, customs, and institutions brought over by the First Fleet were transformed, regardless of how subtle these changes might sometimes have been. Although this transformation began as soon as Captain Phillip planted the British flag, it was not until the 1880s that overseas observers began to notice a distinctly Australian character.

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The Great Aboriginal history con

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Timeless History Invented Yesterday

Robert Hill, Quadrant, May 18 2026

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.

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Concocted history

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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.

Writing us out of our civilisational collapse

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The political campaign to replace Australian names with Aboriginal names

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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.

Who’s surprised?

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‘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.’

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Who were the Aboriginals? An examination minus the concoctions

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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.

Written by Mungo Manic, read his piece here https://quillette.com/2025/01/25/the-…