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The voyage of the First Fleet

JONATHAN KING, a descendant of Philip Gidley King, the third governor of the Australian Colony (1800-1806), opened the introduction to his book, The First Fleet: The Convict Voyage that Founded Australia 1787-1788, with this claim:

“The founding of the Australian nation by the First Fleet is one of the greatest stories of mankind. Thirteen hundred and fifty people, crammed into eleven tiny ships, sailed halfway around the world to transplant European civilization, and on a voyage that took eight months and one week … It was an epic achievement of navigation, use of the wind, ocean currents, and organisation—yet it is a story little known within, or outside, Australia.”

‘No sober judgment of the facts could be at odds with this assessment. Some have compared the First Fleet voyage with the feat of landing a man on the moon. Despite the magnitude of the achievement, most Australians would have no idea that “the journals and diaries of at least eleven scribes have survived from the First Fleet along with reports and logbooks of others.” Those journals included that of author King’s ancestor Second Lieutenant Philip Gidley King RN on the fleet’s flagship HMS Sirius. [The Sirius was 27 metres long and 10 metres wide.] Australians of all ancestries have at their disposal firsthand reports of that incredible sea voyage that, against the odds, with never a navigational falter, led eleven ships into Botany Bay between the 18 and 20 January 1788, after 15,000 miles and 252 days.’

These were the opening paragraphs of chapter 13 of my book PRISON HULK TO REDEMPTION

So astounding was the scientific and technological achievement of the First Fleet that sailed through uncharted waters below the 44th parallel that it is difficult to think the analogy with the moon landing is overstated.

Sussan Ley, Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party, went a trifle further and compared the First Fleet voyage with an expedition to settle Mars. It was a golden chance for the Labor Party to show their ignorance and political dilettantism.

Labor minister Katy Gallagher, Labor’s minister for man-hatred, reacted in character. She ‘labelled Sussan Ley’s comparison of the arrival of the First Fleet to Elon Musk’s SpaceX mission to reach Mars as “nuts”.’ We can’t expect anything better from useless Gallagher whose mind cannot cope with the intellectual content of a simple analogy and must at once go to mockery. Gallagher should be a target of the Liberal Party’s at the coming federal election. As a man, you would have to have a death wish to vote for her.

Prime Minister Albanese was milder in his reaction. He claimed, ‘it was a very strange analogy to draw, pointing out that Australia was populated when Captain Arthur Phillip landed, while Mars … is devoid of life.’

The question of population does not alter the analogy. The analogy is about the astounding achievement of the First Fleet. A later reported remark from the PM was something to the effect that the comparison was hurtful. Poor Anthony, that’s another case of the PM giving into his emotions. Whether the analogy is hurtful or not does not affect the analogy which is about scientific, technological, and navigational achievement.

As for population, estimates of the native population range from 300,000 to 800,000 on that vast mass of land that came to be known as Australia. Apart from that sparse population of primitive natives who spent their time in murderous conflicts over territory, there was nothing there, just land waiting for its riches to be won by a competent civilization of people.

I made a video of the First Fleet’s voyage.

Part 2 two of the presentation is about the settlement:

Australia Day must be brought back to what it once was

Wokish news.com.au has today provided a terrific series of 45 photos of past Australia Days highlighting Australia’s national flag.

Australia has one flag. There are no others.

Once elected, Peter Dutton’s task is to restore Australia Day to what it once was.

Accompanying the photos was News’s claim: ‘A recent poll found younger Australians aged 18 to 24 were more likely to be in favour of changing the date.’ This quote is meant to show that support for Australia Day is on the way out.

It pertinent to point out that the Marxist enemy has full control of Australia’s education system. Australians aged 18 to 24 have been thoroughly indoctrinated with an virulently Anti-Australian narrative.

There are now signs that Australians in their mid-twenties are waking up to the processes of indoctrination that has formed their attitudes. See my post ‘Is the ride turning?’

For the rest of the 45 photos see here . . .

White Aboriginals on the cusp of successful coup

Nothing demonstrates how degraded and corrupted Australian government has become more than the so-called Treaty negotiations between white Aboriginal coup leaders and the traitorous Marxist Andrews/Allan government.

The origin of this cancerous problem is the NATIVE TITLES ACT 1993 passed by the perfidious Keating Labor government. The cumulating coup by white Aboriginals, at the centre of which are and always have been unrelenting Marxists, can only be stopped by repealing this destructive treacherous act.

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Permanent Indigenous voice on the table as Victoria treaty negotiations ramp up

Story by Benita Kolovos Victorian state correspondent, The Guardian, 14 Jan 2025

First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria co-chairs Ngarra Murray (right) and Rueben Berg. A permanent Indigenous voice to parliament would deliver ‘practical solutions for Aboriginal communities across the state’, Berg says. Photograph: Joel Carrett/AAP© Photograph: Joel Carrett/AAP

A permanent Indigenous voice to parliament is being considered as part of treaty negotiations between the Victorian government and the state’s First Peoples’ Assembly.

On Monday, the two groups issued a joint statement outlining the topics to be discussed as part of negotiations that began in late November, which includes the “creation of an ongoing First Peoples’ representative body”.

The possibility of “evolving” the First Peoples’ Assembly into such a body will be discussed. Further, “the role of a representative body in decision-making relating to Victorian government programs and services for First Peoples” and the “interaction between a representative body and the Victorian parliament and government” will also be negotiated.

Although the statement does not refer to such a body as a voice to parliament, the government has previously referred to the work of the First Peoples’ Assembly as being part of the “voice” aspect of the Uluru statement of the heart.

The assembly was established in 2018 to represent traditional owners of country and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Victoria “on the journey to treaty”.Expand article logo

Read the rest here . . .

REPUTATION, REASON AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT PROJECT

Discussion of Chapter Six, ‘Reputation, Reason and the Enlightenment Project’, Second Part on ‘Thought’ of Jesse Norman’s book EDMUND BURKE: PHILOSOPHER, POLITICIAN AND PROPHET

Chapter Six, ‘Reputation, Reason and the Enlightenment Project’ begins the Second Part on ‘Thought’ of Jesse Norman’s book Edmund Burke: Philosopher, Politician And Prophet. Norman surveys the reaction to Burke’s writings and speeches following Burke’s death in 1797. He cites the views of many well-known historical figures in addition to lesser known names in the fields of academia, politics and literature. His conclusion, with which one should readily agree even on a brief reading of the opinions, is that there was much ‘bipartisan esteem’ of Burke’s thought.   ‘Amid the ferment of early nineteenth century social, economic and political change,’ he says, ‘many different writers were able over time to find ideas of enduring value within Burke.’ (KL 2320)

‘In the twentieth century,’ he continues, ‘Burke was pressed into service on numerous occasions.’ Those occasions were the fight against communism during the Cold War (the 1950s and 1960s) and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. It was Burke’s anti-totalitarian rhetoric that American conservatives drew on to drive forward their fight against communism, which represented all forms of totalitarianism. Norman’s tendentious tone here makes it clear he is not convinced of there being any justification for this service. He ends the survey with the following rather puzzling comment.

There has been a persistent desire by some conservative writers to relocate Burke away from a Lockean framework of natural rights and find in him a specifically Christian, indeed Thomist, doctrine of natural law. (KL 2349)

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Aboriginal fakes galore

I have long wondered how a white Australian can look at another white Australian and accept the claim that that white Australian is Aboriginal. After all, there are undisputed examples of Aboriginals in northern Australia. Those full-blood Aboriginals are as black as coal.

Marcus Stewart – Victorian Treaty negotiations

Ken Wyatt – Former Liberal Minister for Aboriginals plus white reinvented, painted-for-the-occasion suburban Aboriginals

What’s going on here?

Don’t we have here a clear example of cognitive dissonance?

Or is it something else – like a political campaign? A campaign of usurpation – a coup? A campaign to rewrite history and reassign political power to an elite who cynically use a disadvantaged people for their purposes?

We should be grateful to Andrew Bolt who is unrelenting in tearing the mask away from the enemy.

Jacinta Allan and her treasonous Marxist government must go

Premier Jacinta Allan is merely a less obnoxious version of that Marxist megalomaniac Daniel Andrews. It’s time Victorians put an end to the treasonous aftermath of the Andrews era.

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‘Will never return’: TV host calls out Jacinta Allan over Australia Day parade

Sky News host Danica De Giorgio calls out Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan for cancelling Melbourne’s Australia Day parade.

“The Jacinta Allan government has today announced the annual Australia parade will never return,” she said.

“Victoria is now one step closer to erasing Australia Day.”

Read the rest and see the video here . . .