Category Archives: History

We’ve all had bloody enough

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Bravo Rowan Dean for saying what all true Australians are saying. We’ve had a gutful of abuse from all sides, especially from the white reinvented Aboriginals who, without real justification, are the pensioners of the rest of us.

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At the end of the video, to which Rowan Dean refers, we witness Muslim fanatic Tasmin Sammax declaring the following:

‘Colonisation is being funded, and it’s at the heart of what we refer to as the Australian settler colony. So, when we’re together here today in solidarity with Palestine, we say the colony will fall.’

Sammax who scorns Australians and doesn’t recognise the nation they built – Aboriginals had nothing to do with it – provides an excellent reason to put a stop to migration from Muslim countries.

The Feminisation of everything

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Helen Andrews’ article in Compact’s online magazine exploded on the internet in October 2025. Commentaries and interviews with Andrews followed rapidly. I will post links following this post. It is curious that, for the first time, I recently came across this quote from George Orwell’s 1984:

“It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.”

Coincidentally, I recently found this shocking demonstration of the fundamental difference between male and female moral and political thinking HERE.

How many of us have had to give up talking to a screaming, overwrought female, as here with this poor man?

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The Great Feminization

Helen Andrews, COMPACT, 16 October 2025

In 2019, I read an article about Larry Summers and Harvard that changed the way I look at the world. The author, writing under the pseudonym “J. Stone,” argued that the day Larry Summers resigned as president of Harvard University marked a turning point in our culture. The entire “woke” era could be extrapolated from that moment, from the details of how Summers was cancelled and, most of all, who did the cancelling: women.

The basic facts of the Summers case were familiar to me. On January 14, 2005, at a conference on “Diversifying the Science and Engineering Workforce,” Larry Summers gave a talk that was supposed to be off the record. In it, he said that female underrepresentation in hard sciences was partly due to “different availability of aptitude at the high end” as well as taste differences between men and women “not attributable to socialization.” Some female professors in attendance were offended and sent his remarks to a reporter, in defiance of the off-the-record rule. The ensuing scandal led to a no-confidence vote by the Harvard faculty and, eventually, Summers’s resignation.

The essay argued that it wasn’t just that women had cancelled the president of Harvard; it was that they’d cancelled him in a very feminine way. They made emotional appeals rather than logical arguments. “When he started talking about innate differences in aptitude between men and women, I just couldn’t breathe because this kind of bias makes me physically ill,” said Nancy Hopkins, a biologist at MIT. Summers made a public statement clarifying his remarks, and then another, and then a third, with the apology more insistent each time. Experts chimed in to declare that everything Summers had said about sex differences was within the scientific mainstream. These rational appeals had no effect on the mob hysteria. 

This cancellation was feminine, the essay argued, because all cancellations are feminine. Cancel culture is simply what women do whenever there are enough of them in a given organization or field. That is the Great Feminization thesis, which the same author later elaborated upon at book length: Everything you think of as “wokeness” is simply an epiphenomenon of demographic feminization.

The explanatory power of this simple thesis was incredible. It really did unlock the secrets of the era we are living in. Wokeness is not a new ideology, an outgrowth of Marxism, or a result of post-Obama disillusionment. It is simply feminine patterns of behavior applied to institutions where women were few in number until recently. How did I not see it before?

Possibly because, like most people, I think of feminization as something that happened in the past before I was born. When we think about women in the legal profession, for example, we think of the first woman to attend law school (1869), the first woman to argue a case before the Supreme Court (1880), or the first female Supreme Court Justice (1981). 

A much more important tipping point is when law schools became majority female, which occurred in 2016, or when law firm associates became majority female, which occurred in 2023. When Sandra Day O’Connor was appointed to the high court, only 5 percent of judges were female. Today women are 33 percent of the judges in America and 63 percent of the judges appointed by President Joe Biden.

Read the rest HERE . . .

1960s Part 2

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Part 2 in Mervyn Bendle’s excellent series on the 1960s. Highly recommended reading.

Liza’s Journey: Australia in the Sixties, Part 2

Mervyn Bendle, Quadrant, Dec 13 2025

The Great Chasm. As we saw in the first installment of this series, Liza was beginning her university studies as a ‘great chasm’ had opened up between the optimism and self-belief of the broad mass of Australians and the nascent Intelligentsia, which was invariably critical of its own country. It appears this split had its origins in the tendency of frontier and nation-building societies, like Australia, to value pragmatism and the ability to engage productively with the concrete here-and-now, rather than be pre-occupied with more abstract matters like culture, ideology, and theories. This nation-building was exemplified in the post-war period by massive immigration, the Education Revolution, and colossal infrastructure development, spearheaded by the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme (1949-74).

The Australian Legend. Such activity saw the resurgence of nationalism, a native intellectual tradition that found much to be valued in Australian history and culture. The key text was The Australian Legend (1958) by Russel Ward, which argued that the shared hardship that characterised Australia’s convict and mining origins and the ‘frontier experience’ of the outback bushman had generated a heritage of egalitarianism, co-operation, and mateship that had manifested itself in the Anzac tradition, and was being called upon again in the post-war period as Australians undertook the immense task of transforming their country into a thriving modern nation. This ‘origin story’ of Australian history became very influential while Liza was at university, and later became a hated target of the New Left. This radical neo-Marxist cohort was a by-product of Australia’s passage into post-industrialism, and especially of the Education Revolution, and it quickly established a stranglehold over Australia’s intellectual life and culture.

Mass Immigration. As a nation-building country, Australia benefited greatly from the turmoil in post-war Europe. The Iron Curtain had descended, condemning most East Europeans to a totalitarian fate; 8 million Germans were driven from their homes as their devastated nation was chopped in two; Italy, Greece, and of Yugoslavia were in chaos, and Britain was on the verge of bankruptcy. Massive numbers of migrants began streaming out, determined to start life afresh ‘down under’, including 170,000 Displaced Persons (or ‘refos’ as they were affectionately known). Most were assisted by the Federal Government on the basis that they agreed to stay for at least two years and work in the jobs available. Many found work with the Snowy Mountains Scheme (and incidentally  pioneered the snow-skiing industry in Australia). Others opened shops and businesses, worked in department stores, factories, heavy industry, or as labourers and farmhands.

Post-Industrialism  All of this was happening as Australia was transformed into a post-industrial society, i.e., one that has transitioned from a manufacturing-based economy to one centred on services, information processing, and knowledge work. This involves a shift from a ‘blue-collar’ to a ‘knowledge worker’ workforce, with an emphasis of theoretical knowledge over practical know-how, and consequently a greater focus on tertiary over technical education. It also involved major changes in gender roles, rights and responsibilities, birth rates, and enhanced opportunities for women in education, employment and political life.

State government typing pool in Brisbane, circa 1962

Education Revolution. Post-industrialism made enormous demands on the education system. And this happened at a time when migrant children were adding significantly to the Baby Boomer demographic bulge.  Consequently, Government expenditure on education tripled as a proportion of GDP between 1950 and 1970. Primary and secondary enrolments increased by 11% and 45% respectively in the Sixties alone.

Read the rest here . . .

Australia’s foremost white Aboriginal fake

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The embarrassing pure-bred white man below is Australia’s all-time champion bull-artist, working a confidence trick that would have few rivals in the history of the world. It is white Aboriginal fake, Bruce Pascoe, author of the White-Aboriginal fairytale DARK EMU. How does he get away with it? Tony Thomas has an answer below.

Pascoe lap-lap

Bruce Pascoe’s Ever-Loyal Tribe

Tony Thomas, Quadrant, Jul 17 2025

With another fiscal year ticked over for Bruce Pascoe’s Black Duck Foods charity,  it’s time for another look at the Dark Emu cult. Why do Pascoe and his Dark Emu thesis of pre-colonial native farmers continue to thrive despite having lost all credibility?

Part I: Pascoe’s Pals at the Copyright Agency

The Black Duck charity must be Australia’s most unusual. It’s the tenant running Pascoe’s 60ha Yumburra Farm at Gipsy Point near Mallacoota. Black Duck picks up all costs for operations and spends cheerfully on improvements to Bruce’s farm. It plants, harvests and markets Bruce’s native seeds, to revive the alleged farming practices of pre-colonial Aborigines.

From inception in 2020 to June 30, 2024, the charity acquired $1.36 million from taxpayers and $1.24 million from tax-deductible donations, a total $2.6 million in free funds. By June 2024 it spent all but $220,000, including $149,000 paid in rent to Bruce, $82,000 to buy his old tractor and farmlet odds and sods, and close to $100,000 buying vehicles and their upkeep.[1]

Bruce emailed his his fans a year ago, “We urgently need your support… To be honest with you Black Duck Foods is currently living hand to mouth … we need your help to keep going.” (My emphases throughout). When the 2024-25 accounts emerge next January we’ll discover how the project’s getting on, or not getting on.

Black Duck’s $2 million-plus outlays since 2020 have generated total farm sales of only $80,000. Hardly surprising as it’s currently pricing its flour from native seeds at $180-360 per kg (depending on volume discounts and species), versus $1.30 for a kilo packet from Woollies today. Pascoe sells his yam daisy seeds for grow-it-yourself fans at 12 cents each.  Such tiny seeds run at about 30 per gram, so it’s expensive to scatter them by the handful.

Rather than proving the viability of pre-colonial farming, Bruce’s demonstration farm has proved the opposite. The lofty ambition of Bruce as a self-proclaimed Yuin, Bunurong and Tasmanian Aborigine is to convert Australians to native bread loaves and bulrush salads, while validating his Dark Emu thesis of pre-colonial farmer towns housing 1000 citizens apiece, or even, at Lake Condah, Victoria,  10,000 farm and fisher-folk. (Dark Emu, p75). Modern-day towns of that size include Broome, Katoomba and Castlemaine, thankfully all improved with sewerage, public servants, Coles for groceries and Kmarts for winter pyjamas.

The real question is how Bruce has got away with his thesis – rather, won laurels for it — for more than a decade.

Read the rest here . . .

The Myths of Indigenous History

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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

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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.

Read the rest here . . .

Erasing whiteness and replacing white people

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It seems reasonable for someone (not necessarily white) who cherishes historical accuracy to object to a coal-black African actress playing lily-white Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII, in a television drama.

But, no, to wonder about the point of this egregious case of race-swapping is to trigger howls of racism. Even worse, to suspect the purpose of white replacement and erasure is to send the white-haters into paroxysms of rage. How dare you object to our racism?

Alas, colourblind casting and race-swapping are de rigeur in the movie and television industry, particularly under the direction of a female.