What is the Australian character and culture?

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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Four stages of ideological subversion

Former KGB operative Yuri Bezmenov tried to warn the West about communist subversion. After his defection, he spent his time outlining the four stages of Marxist subversion. It happened as he predicted, especially in Australia, where the Marxists have infiltrated and poisoned all the major organs of the nation.

SUBVERSION IN FOUR STAGES

1. Foster cultural decadence and demoralisation
– Attack family, history of white people, encourage sexual promiscuity and drugs, attack patriotism, undermine people’s pride in their country.

2. Create social chaos
Everyone is equal. There’s no difference between man and woman, different races and people. Unequal outcomes are the result of white prejudice, bigotry and injustice.
– Communists plan to use minorities to undermine white society.
– Manipulate the movement for civil rights as a tactic to destabilise white society. Brand anyone objecting as a racist.
– Destabilise with rampant mass immigration. The push for Third World immigration came directly from the communists.
– Encourage black people to see all inequalities and disadvantages as a result of white oppression.

3. Instigate a crisis that leads either to civil war, revolution, or invasion.

4. Launch a quick savage coup to bring the country under the control of the communist party to bring ‘normalisation’. Communists and Islamists are most successful in mounting a coup.

Madman Leon Trotsky invented and spread the word ‘racism’ because he knew that multiracial societies result in social chaos.

Use DIVERSITY as a tactic. Diversity undermines a coherent, cohesive society. Diversity is the major weapon against white societies.

Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov, also known as Tomas David Schuman, was a Soviet journalist, KGB-associated informant, and defector who worked for the Novosti Press Agency before fleeing while stationed in India in 1970. Resettled in Canada, he became an outspoken anti-communist author and lecturer, best known for exposing the KGB’s “ideological subversion” strategy—demoralization, destabilization, crisis, and normalization—outlined in his 1980s books and lectures until his death in 1993.

Concocted history

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.

A Boomer’s life

I made this slideshow to celebrate the fortieth wedding anniversary of my older brother, Michael, and his wife, Wendy, in 2006. It was a great hit with the family at the time. It had terrific memories. But now, 20 years later, when Michael and Wendy are in their eighties, and I’m eighty next July, the slideshow has so much more significance. It now shows a way of life and its ambience that has almost disappeared. It’s still a lot of fun, but now it is tinged with nostalgia for a time in Australia that is drifting into the nation’s forgetfulness.

We were in our mid-twenties when the 1960s Revolution hit in Sydney. In this slideshow, one can see the background of the novels in my Sixties Series, especially in Books 3, 4, 5, and 6 to come.

Welcome to Country is an insult

Excellent video. It makes all the right points about Welcome to Country, land rights, invasion, and all the nonsensical claims about Australia’s history by reinvented White-Aboriginals. What do people expect when a person states, as an introduction to Anzac Day, that most of the people listening are not legitimate on the land they’re standing on?

The West has been warned time and again . . .

muslim prayers

Got Islam, Got Problems

Peter Smith, Quadrant, Apr 19 2026

My aversion to Islam has nothing to do with it being wrong. All religions with a deity or deities outside of Christianity (and Judaism to the extent its scripture is the foundation of Christianity) are to me without exception wrong, and those without a deity irrelevant. For the most part, as a follower of what I believe to be the only true and complete religion, I simply ignore the rest.

So, if my aversion to Islam is not based on it being wrong, or even that it has plagiarised, corrupted, and ridiculously distorted part of Christian and Jewish sources in order to build its hateful and phony scripture, on what is it based? It is based purely on its scriptural prescriptions which are directed to doing me, and my kind, harm; and on the deadly implementation of those prescriptions by its acolytes.

Over 49,000 deadly Islamic terrorist attacks since 9/11 speak to this harm, as does the barbaric treatment of Christianity and Christians in the Islamic world, as does the arrogance displayed in the Western world once Muslim populations reach numbers enough to influence elections. And its gatherings into “communities” around mosques means those numbers are not that high in the scheme of things.

A little over 3% of the population in Australia is enough to fuel endless pro-Palestinian marches, to unashamedly make life uncomfortable for the Prime Minister when visiting an Islamicised part of Sydney, and to even putting Australia at one with the anti-Israel baying mob at the UN. Imagine the future, not if, but when the percentage becomes six. You don’t have to, just look at the UK and 3,000 (all male!) bums in the air in Trafalgar Square.

Why back on February 7, 2008, the then Archbishop of Canterbury, the sopping-wet Rowan Williams, envisaged the parallel application of sharia law in the UK ( see Civil and Religious Law in England: a Religious Perspective). He was prescient. According to the Daily Mail [paywalled] up to 85 sharia courts operate in the UK. And counting, I would say.

Islam was built as a rallying cry for Arab conquests. It spreads darkness, hatred, terrorism, discrimination, and impoverishment wherever it holds sway. It is, as Churchill put it back in the day, the most retrograde force in the world; even accounting, I would add, for the dreadful legacy of communism in the 20th century:

No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step, and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it (Islam) has vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome. — The River War, 1899

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Cheron Long – ‘blacker than the ace of spades’ – a true Aboriginal

Cheron Long, who calls herself Australian Black Conservative, and says she’s ‘blacker than the ace of spades,’ has a message below for the Aboriginal ‘wannabes who are whiter than Caspar the Ghost.’

Australian Black Conservative – Cheron Long

I am currently seeing a wave of hate and threats directed at me from people claiming an identity that doesn’t match the reality standing in front of them. They claim to be Black yet they look whiter than a newborn baby’s bottom. These are the box tickers the ones fueling the divide in our nation and our culture. You can head back to the Senator Lidia Thorpe school of racial division because that is where you belong doing anything and everything to split Australians apart.

Understand this. I am not backing down for anyone, especially not some wannabes who are whiter than Casper the Ghost. The statistics don’t lie. The Aboriginal population is growing at a rate that biology alone cannot explain. It’s growing as fast as a pen can tick a box. This population has more than doubled in the last twenty years a surge of identity shifting that the world has never seen before on this scale.

I love this country I love our flag and I love our ANZACs. Australian culture is a sacred legacy that needs protecting. To me the truth of heritage isn’t a political tool or a trend it is the blood in my veins and the history of this soil. It is an unbroken bond to our ancestors and a commitment to the future of one united people. This truth is inclusive of all Australians who honor our shared history and stand together as one.

Go ahead call me an Uncle Tom. Call me a racist for supporting great Aussies like Pauline Hanson’s Please ExplainSenator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Nyunggai Warren Mundine AO . I know these two ladies and him personally. I know how much they truly love this country and our shared Australian culture. Your names don’t hurt me because I know who I am. As a Black fella blacker than the ace of spades, I stand for the truth of our heritage and for the unity of one nation under one flag. Threats won’t silence me, they only prove that the truth is hitting home, and that is what fuels me to keep pushing and pushing and doing my bit to save our Country.