Will we get a lot of uncles and aunties, made-up welcomes to country, religious animist smoking ceremonies, white flabby painted men dancing around waving spears and clicking sticks, nonsensical Australian history . . .?
We’ll see.
Reinvented White Aboriginals can call it what they want and embellish its significance for as far as their imagination stretches, but for me it is, and will stay, Ayers Rock.
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.
‘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.
The video below is a terrific portrayal of the growth of Australia’s first major city, Sydney. It shows the miracle of Sydney after the miracle of settlement – sailing 11 ships across mostly uncharted parts of the world to found a settlement.
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-…
Helen Andrews’ article, The Great Feminization, 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.
Part 2 in Mervyn Bendle’s excellent series on the 1960s. Highly recommended reading.
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.
‘You can’t go on telling people: ‘you’re white therefore you’re evil’, without expecting at some point there will be a reaction.’
The West’s war on ‘whiteness’, with Marie Kawthar Daouda | The Brendan O’Neill Show