Category Archives: History

That complete dunce, Steve Witkoff

Billionaire Steve Witkoff, one of Trump’s band of traitors, tried to present that dribbling psychopath Vladimir Putin as a believing, practising Christian by claiming he (Putin) scurried along to a church (Orthodox) to light a thanksgiving candle when Trump was almost assassinated.

What would dunce Witkoff have now to say about Putin’s Christian credentials after that psychopath sent two Eskander antiballistic missiles to destroy Christians going to the Palm Sunday ceremonies, among whom were women and children?

Trump should give up his charade about wanting peace in Ukraine and tell the truth. In truth, he wants a deal to satiate his inveterate greed and give his psychopath mate in the Kremlin an advantage in a war the dribbling psychopath is losing.

Trump’s Ukraine policy is as treacherous as anything found in the history of conflict.

Not all Millennials and Zoomers are woke

There are increasing signs that wokism has not infected the entire Millennial and Zoomer demographic.

Great applause for the students who walked out on the separatist lecture of a White-Aboriginal.

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Sky News host Liz Storer discusses a University of Queensland senior law lecturer’s berating of students for walking out during a history of Indigenous law. “A senior lecturer of law at the University of Queensland … was so offended when tens of students, she claimed, walked out of one of her lectures,” Ms Storer said. “When she was talking about the history of Indigenous legal history and she got so offended by this she then decided to lecture them in a following lecture in a rather threatening way.”

Woke infestation of our universities

University’s ‘woke’ subject requirements include Welcome to Country and ‘privilege walk’

A top Aussie university has been slammed for ‘woke’ course requirements forcing students to perform Welcome to Country and a ‘privilege walk’.

Holly Truelove, news.com.au, March 20, 2025

Sydney’s Macquarie University is facing new criticism over a course which requires students to perform a “heartfelt” Welcome to Country and a “privilege walk” to pass the module.

In an attempt to encourage students to understand power and status, the Age and the Law course has included the delivery of an acknowledgement of country as part of the rubric for an assessment which is worth 30 per cent of the final course mark.

Students have to perform a “thoughtful”, “culturally respectful” and “exceptionally well written” acknowledgement of country at the beginning of their oral law exam to check off one of the five key marking criteria, The Australian reported.

Sydney’s Macquarie University has been slammed for ‘woke’ course requirements. Picture: Supplied.

Sydney’s Macquarie University has been slammed for ‘woke’ course requirements. Picture: Supplied.

Course convener Holly Doel-Mackaway has doubled down on the requirement in a post to the university’s internal learning platform, saying “it’s about acknowledging your positionality as a student of law on this unceded land”.

Two students told the Australian said the course had become hijacked by a political ideology that was damaging to their education.

One student said they felt pressured to “express an opinion that I don’t truly believe in”.

Another former honours student who remained anonymous said the law school’s reputation was being damaged by these actions.

“It’s the fault of the university and no one is suffering the harm more than the students of its law school,” the student said.

“It reflects upon the students who are going out and applying for these jobs. And you’ve got these partners … who would look at this stuff and think ‘That’s crazy. I don’t want to hire a kid who’s been taught by people like this’.”

Course convener Holly Doel-Mackaway has stood by the inclusion of a Welcome to Country performance as part of an assessment task in the Age and the Law course. Picture: Supplied.

Course convener Holly Doel-Mackaway has stood by the inclusion of a Welcome to Country performance as part of an assessment task in the Age and the Law course. Picture: Supplied.

The Australian approached Macquarie University for comment and were told that the compulsory acknowledgment to traditional Aboriginal owners was dropped from the honours unit last year.

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A useful distinction between ‘pre-colonial foragers’ and ‘contemporary Aboriginal Australians’ – they are not the same

From Quillette:

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.

The ultimate treachery and betrayal

I’m still speechless about the band of Trump traitors who have betrayed the West. I leave it to Jake Broe’s latest video on the betrayal of the ages.

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Putin and Trump held a two-hour phone conversation today in which Putin rejected Ukraine’s total 30-day ceasefire across the entire front lines. Putin is still demanding that all military aid to Ukraine be ended from all NATO partners and that Ukraine give up all territory that Russia’s military has failed to capture after three years or war.

The betrayal goes on

More evidence the tertiary sector is totally corrupted – and those that can, won’t act

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How law students at one of Australia’s biggest universities could FAIL their exam if they don’t perform a good enough Welcome to Country – even though it has nothing to do with their course

By PADRAIG COLLINS FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA, 17 March 2025

Law students at a top Sydney university could fail an exam if they don’t begin it with a heartfelt Welcome to Country.

The requirement is part of Macquarie University’s ‘law reform campaign’ oral exam, which counts for 30 per cent of the final mark in the course ‘age and the law’.

The exam rules said a student would fail if they didn’t present an Acknowledgement or Welcome to Country or ‘did so in a way that was inappropriate or did not comply with the instructions’, the Australian reported.

The rules also contain an explanation saying, ‘There is significant room for improvement and further thought required for this to be considered culturally respectful’.

To get a high distinction mark, a student’s Acknowledgement of Country would be ‘a brief, thoughtful, exceptionally well-written, culturally respectful acknowledgement of country or welcome to country at the beginning of the presentation’.

Coming just days after another accusation of ‘wokeness’ at the same university, Indigenous Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has slammed the exam as ‘indoctrination’. 

Senator Nampijinpa Price said ‘mandating that students participate in what is arguably a reinvention of culture in order to attain a tertiary qualification is an indictment on our education system’. 

The NT senator added that it showed universities were ‘more interested in indoctrination than genuine education’. 

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Land rights – the treachery and betrayal continue

The only counter to the attempted coup by a small number of white Aboriginals is to repeal The Native Title Act.

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Galarrwuy Yunupingu: Lord of the Manor

Keith Windschuttle

Quadrant, 13 Mar 2025

When Queen Elizabeth died in September last year, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese gave her a respectful but formal eulogy, saying: “With the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, an historic reign and a long life devoted to duty, family, faith and service has come to an end.” However, when the Aboriginal identity Galarrwuy Yunupingu died in April 2023, Albanese could hardly contain himself. This once plain-speaking politician plunged into poetics:

Now Yunupingu is gone, but the gurtha—the great tongue of flame and truth with which he spoke to us—is still here. And it lights the path ahead for us. We will never again hear his voice anew, but his words—and his legacy—will keep speaking to us … He lifted us up and held us there so that we could see as far as he did. And what a vision he shared with us …

Yunupingu’s admirers among the Aboriginal political elite were even more complimentary. Melbourne academic Marcia Langton declared him to be “the greatest leader Australia had ever known”. This was reported by the Australian’s indigenous specialist reporter Paige Taylor the day after he died, and has not been retracted since. So this exorbitant quote was not an error. Langton thought Yunupingu not just our greatest Aboriginal leader but Australia’s greatest leader ever.

The news media worked hard to sustain this degree of adoration. The Australian devoted the entire front page of its April 3 edition to a close-up photograph of Yunupingu’s face. Most other newspapers in the capital cities did much the same.

What did Yunupingu accomplish to deserve such acclaim? Albanese said he was the founder of the movement for Aboriginal land rights and a long-time symbol of the uncompromising persistence that was needed to win the cause. In 1978 he was made Australian of the Year for his contribution. Most news stories in April dutifully followed Albanese’s claims. He said:

He made sure with the sheer power of his advocacy for land rights. He made sure when he helped draft the Yirrkala Bark Petitions, which delivered such a powerful message that resounded within the walls of the nation’s parliament.

However, none of Albanese’s claims above were true. When broadcast at Yirrkala, they must have generated infuriated expletives among those who actually did conceive and draft the famous bark petitions. Moreover, the idea of making claims for land rights was not founded by Yunupingu and, when he did have a significant role in the movement years later, there was a stench of corruption about his distribution of the royalties, both to other clans and among his own. He attracted bad publicity in sexual politics too. In 2006, he stood in a Darwin court accused of a violent sexual assault that threatened the life of one of his four wives. To cap this list, on his watch and close within his family there was an awful killing of a woman for which the male culprit got off lightly.Now, I’m not raising these distasteful topics just to disparage Albanese and the news media for the mythical creature they have created. Yunupingu’s career also has implications for the constitutional change these parties are now promoting. If their referendum gets up, its romantic ambition of restoring traditional Aboriginal culture will preserve the careers of indigenous men like Yunupingu. Not only will the Big Men of clans remain dominant over many communities in remote Australia but the Voice will embed new generations of these indigenous oligarchs. Their constitutional protection will make them a law unto themselves, no matter how badly they serve their dependent constituents. So let me outline here, and in our following edition, aspects of Yunupingu’s career that the mainstream media coverage of his death largely omitted or got completely wrong.

The Methodist mission and the mining company

In 1935 a Methodist mission for Aborigines was established at Yirrkala on the north-east coast of Arnhem Land. Before the white men arrived, the monsoonal deluge from November to April always made it difficult for local clans to hunt, fish and gather plant food. They were glad to come, voluntarily, to the mission to get three free meals a day and sleep in dry beds. Most who came in regularly for food eventually decided to stay. This included Yunupingu’s father, Munggurawuy Yunupingu, then the Big Man of the Gumatj clan, who brought into the mission his eleven wives and twenty-four children. The Gumatj were one of thirteen clans on the Gove Peninsula who identified as Yolngu. Galarrwuy Yunupingu was one of the sons educated at the Yirrkala mission school, where he learned to speak English.

In the Second World War the Gove Peninsula became one of the strategically important sites in the Northern Territory. As well as army roads into the peninsula, the Royal Australian Air Force constructed a runway there (on the site of the present mining town of Nhulunbuy), and built a causeway to connect Gunyangara, an island in Melville Bay, to the main peninsula, creating a base for Catalina flying boats. In short, before Yunupingu was born in 1948, the war had opened up the region to the modern world and the local Aborigines had accommodated themselves to it.

The pace of change accelerated in the 1970s when the Swiss and Australian company Nabalco gained a lease from the Commonwealth government over a swathe of land on the peninsula and began constructing an alumina mine and processing plant. It also built the township of Nhulunbuy to house three thousand employees, plus a range of modern facilities, including a hospital and three schools.

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