Category Archives: Native title

Questions missing from the census

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While completing my online census questions last night, I realised four vital questions were missing:

Are you a full-blooded Aboriginal, living the traditional life of the Aboriginal in all its primitiveness, without recourse to any support from modern Australian society? YES/NO

Are you a full-blooded Aboriginal taking advantage of all that modern Australia has to offer? YES/NO

Are you a reinvented white-Aboriginal, predominantly of European ancestry, having no connection whatever with the traditional life of the full-blooded Aboriginal? YES/NO

Are you a reinvented white-Aboriginal, indistinguishable from your fellow Australian of Anglo-Celtic origin? YES/NO

The dreamtime enters history

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The ideological concoction of history

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Pemulwuy: Coward, Thief, Killer

Robert Hill, Quadrant, Aug 07 2026

No Aboriginal figure has acquired greater symbolic importance in the modern construction of the “Frontier Wars” than Pemulwuy, and no episode associated with him has been more heavily mythologised than the confrontation now called the “Battle of Parramatta” in 1797. The elevation of a brief, unattributed colonial account into a major military engagement has supplied the emerging frontier-war narrative with both a commanding hero and a foundational battle.

The modern Pemulwuy is not merely the product of generous interpretation. He has been constructed through the cumulative enlargement of fragmentary, unattributed and often much later accounts. Hearsay became fact. Raiding became warfare. A clash became a battle. A notorious local outlaw became the commander of a resistance movement.

A short article cannot examine every contradiction and embellishment within that transformation. It can, however, expose its essential structure. The contemporary evidence does not securely establish Pemulwuy as the commander of an Aboriginal army, the leader of a regional political coalition or the architect of a sustained military campaign. Even the killing most strongly associated with him rests upon an identification that is plausible rather than conclusive.

Read the rest HERE . . .

The solution: repeal the Native Title Act

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What Mabo has Wrought

Peter O’Brien, Quadrant , Aug 04 2026

In my latest book, Juukan – the New Dark Emu (order it here), I postulate that, in the wake of the ludicrous findings of the Parliamentary Enquiry into the legal demolition by Rio Tinto of two nondescript rock shelters , protection of Aboriginal heritage will become an increasingly intolerable burden for mining companies to bear.  A recent judgment by the Federal Court against Fortescue Mining Group bears that out. What follows is an extract from my book and some observations about the latest developments.

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In its submission to the Juukan Parliamentary Enquiry, Fortescue (FMG) describes itself as a “proud” Western Australian company, no doubt to establish right off that they have been listening to, and learning from, their “native title partners”.

FMG has seven agreements with different native title holders, and they note:

Among other things, the Native Title Agreements facilitate the identification and protection of significant Aboriginal cultural heritage through Aboriginal Cultural heritage surveys. As a result of these surveys, Fortescue and native title holders have surveyed 2.5 million km2 of land and identified and protected over 5900 cultural heritage places. Fortescue submits that this extensive protection is evidence that the State cultural heritage protection regime is largely successful.

Not a great start, I would have thought, for FMG to claim that it had surveyed 2.5 million square kilometres, in other words pretty much the whole of Western Australia. Makes you wonder if the figure of 5900 protected sites is also an order of magnitude out.

Read the rest HERE . . .

Auntie Lisa’s first Welcome to Country

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Lisa Jane Spencer has suffered a monumental mob attack since her recent satire on Aboriginal identification. Fortunately, she hasn’t caved in. Indeed, she’s determined to push on, as the reel below demonstrates.

I commented previously that her parody was based on accurate evidence. The rules for Aboriginal identification are so loose as to require a mere feeling of being Aboriginal. Check the rules if you don’t believe me.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Vv_O0TPJRi8

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It’s a total farce – a big con

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Most of those calling themselves, or being called, Indigenous, First Nations (the preferred term because of its connotations), and less often Aboriginal, have demonstrably had the same upbringing and education in the same social environment as most Australians.

Their behaviour, speech and educational level give them away as belonging to the mass of the Australian population with the same social gradations. There are poor, white, uneducated people, as there are poor, uneducated people with Aboriginal ancestry, a great many of them indistinguishable in appearance from Australians with British and European backgrounds.

This is less a case of race relations than it is of the usurpation of power by one particular body, party, club – call it what you will – in Australia. And it’s hurried along at great speed by the Marxists in the ABC and SBS, the great apologists for all things woke. The ABC and SBS are on the frontline, promoting the First Nations coup, which aims to reshape Australia according to their concocted Aboriginal culture and history.

$1.48 million for fishing in the very best modern diving equipment? Nice work if you can get it – as the song goes.

Tell Pauline Hanson you’ll vote for One Nation if she and her party undertake to get rid of farces like this.