Category Archives: History

The Desecration of the Australian War Memorial

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The Capture by Stealth of the AWM

Robert Hill, Quadrant, 20 July 2026

“A major feature on Frontier Wars will piss off the majority of Australia’s 600,000 veterans.” So warned Major General Greg Melick in 2022, when he was National President of the RSL and a member of the Australian War Memorial Council.

“The fundamental element is that the War Memorial was built in sacred recognition of wars that Australians fought as a nation, unified against an external foe. It is not to be a memorial for conflicts within Australia,” Barnaby Joyce said in 2022.

These statements expose the question the Memorial has never honestly answered: if a major Frontier Wars display would so profoundly disturb the veterans whose service the Memorial exists to honour, why has the policy been advanced without a clear public announcement, published legal advice, or a frank explanation of how it fits within the Australian War Memorial Act?

I am not a military man. I do not claim the authority of service. But my love for this country could not be greater. I know sacrilege when I see it.

The Australian War Memorial is the last place still standing largely outside the ideological capture of our national institutions. It is where politics is meant to fall silent before the dead; where the nation goes not to be lectured, corrected or re-educated, but to remember those who served and those who died.

Yet we are living inside a national fog of exaggeration and fabrication surrounding the so-called Frontier Wars. Claims unsupported by military reality are forced upon us as settled truth, even where no war existed.

The more immediate question is how this contested project became institutional policy. It was not advanced by open argument, but by stealth: through an ideological sequence and in a vacuum of justification. No clear public mandate was sought. No legal reasoning was published. No serious explanation was offered to veterans or the wider public as to why a contested account of colonial violence belongs within the statutory war memorial.

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1960s Part 3

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Liza’s Journey: Australia in the Sixties, Part 3

1960s Part 1 1960s Part 2

Mervyn Bendle, Quadrant, Dec 20 2025

Radical Thought. The Sydney Push had a lot more to it than the  Libertarianism and libertinism we discussed in our previous article. As Liza discovered, it appealed also to those drawn to challenging ideas and ideologies, as well as to those, like her, who felt  they had profound questions to ask. Prior to the Sixties, such youthful intellectual hunger might have been satisfied by joining the Communist Party. However, its authoritarianism, the revelations about the horrors of Stalinism, and the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary (right) discredited the Party for many. This was especially the case with Liza, who heard of the horrors first-hand from those workmates at the store who were amongst the 300,000 Hungarians who’d fled into exile, with many coming to Australia. Consequently, the Libertarian Society and the Push helped fill an ideological vacuum that lasted until the arrival of the New Left.

Intellectual Appeal. Moreover, they had a intellectual basis, derived from John Anderson’s iconoclastic philosophy, which had survived over 40 years of critique and conflict with the Establishment. The folk who made up the core membership of the Push took ideas seriously and this foundation gave it legitimacy for the intellectually-inclined, including not only the older members but younger folk like Liza or Germaine Greer, who particularly noticed the difference between Melbourne and Sydney: Melbourne’s ‘Drift’ was romantic in relationships and sloppy in reasoning while the Push (left) was realist in relationships and rigorous in reasoning.

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India’s caste system

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I did a search on India’s caste system, and this is what I found:

‘India’s caste system is a hierarchical social structure rooted in ancient varna classifications, further divided into thousands of hereditary jatis, influencing social, economic, and political life for centuries.

Historical Origins

The caste system in India originated in ancient times, primarily through the varna system, which divided society into four broad categories: Brahmins (priests), Kshatriyas (warriors and rulers), Vaishyas (traders and merchants), and Shudras (laborers and artisans) Wikipedia+1. Outside this hierarchy were the Dalits (historically called “Untouchables”) and Adivasis (tribal communities), who faced social exclusion Wikipedia+1. Over time, the varna system became more complex with the emergence of jatis, localized hereditary groups often linked to specific occupations, customs, and marriage rules Encyclopedia Britannica+2.’

Is this mentality what we want brought to Australia? Of course, the multiculturalists have nothing to say. They’re too preoccupied with de-whiting and de-Anglosising Australia.

Robert Menzies’ prescient warning

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Only a drooling ideologue would deny the key argument here. Only homogeneous societies possess the unity to survive. Multiculturalism is incoherent. Present-day Australia shows Menzies to be essentially correct. A survivable nation cannot tolerate imported colonies whose members publicly proclaim their allegiance to another nation.

The Indian PM greets his ecstatic Australian colony

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The Indian PM Narendra Modi was all satisfied smiles as his Indian colony greeted him at a rally in Melbourne. Our leftist Prime Minister obsequiously copied Modi’s Indian greeting as they walked through the ecstatic crowd. A humble bow with hands together was appropriate for this prime minister. Australian custom and tradition are a distant last with Albo.

The larger the colony, the more influence it has on the electoral process. Albo knows this.

Jeffrey Sachs and his sympathy for Russia

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The video below has allegedly gone viral. I made this brief comment:

Jeffrey Sachs is extremely one-sided. Everybody should know how Finland, Poland and the Baltic states regard Russia. Putin himself is not at all shy about Russia’s imperial ambitions. How often do we hear key people in Islam talk about converting the world – by violence if necessary? The symbol of Islam is the sword. Hasn’t Sachs noticed? Does he not know the history of Islam? What should Israel do about Islam’s stated objective to destroy the Jewish people? These are fundamental questions about which you don’t need a professorship to understand. War and defence of your country and culture are sometimes a dirty business. The Americans are far from infallible, but I’m on the side of those combating enemies who want to destroy the West. What skin does Sachs have in the game?

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.

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