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 political campaign to replace Australian names with Aboriginal names

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.

Whitlam’s Aboriginal Land Rights Act

‘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.’ These are quotations from Robert Hill’s Quadrant article, Welcome to Wadeye.

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