How the rise of Trump is related to indigenocide and Australia Day

25 Jan 2017 | How the rise of Trump is related to indigenocide and Australia Day. John Passant explains.  

Does Australia Day commemorate genocide?

23 Jan 2017 | By moving the date for Australia Day, it would indicate that we've learned to value and cherish ...  

Inglourious Basterd(s): John Howard's case to answer on invasion of Iraq

13 Jan 2017 | Had the ICC aggression amendment existed back in 2003, John Howard would have been tried as a war ...  

Australia has lost its cultural identity

16 Nov 2016 | Australia's rich Indigenous heritage, including astronomy, superfoods and even a monument older ...  

Australia's fractious plebiscite history: The 1916 'Blood Vote'

28 Oct 2016 | If you're unsure whether plebiscites could inflame national debate, just look at the conscription ...  

Lawyers and the Liberal Party: What’s keeping Brandis in office?

10 Oct 2016 | The answer to why Brandis hasn't resigned may lie in the absence of a suitable replacement ...  

Three birthdays for the Queen — Isn't it time for a Republic?

3 Oct 2016 | On the third Queen's birthday holiday this year, Dr Glenn Davies asks if it’s time we replaced ...  

Ban on Muslims? It's a standard Aussie response

27 Sep 2016 | While Malcolm Turnbull was telling the UN how wonderful our offshore gulags are, 49% of Austral ...  

White Privilege, White Australia, One Nation: One agenda

26 Sep 2016 | If we allow Australia's White Privilege agenda to be fuelled by groups such as One Nation we are ...  

1 September: Let's celebrate the 24th anniversary of National Wattle Day

1 Sep 2016 | SEPTEMBER 1 has many names. Some welcome it as spring’s dawn, a time to celebrate nature’s ...  

Long Tan: Behind the smokescreen

17 Aug 2016 | On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the battle of Long Tan, Vietnam Veteran, former history ...  

Turnbull v Whitlam: Who is/was Australia's worst PM?

14 Aug 2016 | Dr Martin Hirst puts paid to long held claims that the Whitlam reign was a disaster by compa ...  

Manufacturing a legend: The 1916 Anzac Book

25 Apr 2016 | One hundred years ago in May 1916, C.E.W. (Charles) Bean’s The Anzac Book was published to great ...  

Get your Queen off our fiver!

21 Apr 2016 | Queen Elizabeth II is 90 today — 21 April 2016. It has always seemed absurd that Australians ...  

Invading our smugness: Thoughts on a diversity toolkit

4 Apr 2016 | The Murdoch press are outraged a university is teaching that Australia was invaded — but when ...  

Review: Klaus Neumann's 'Across the Seas: Australia's Response to Refugees  – A History'

19 Mar 2016 | On the eve of Palm Sunday, refugee advocate Kevin Bain reviews Klaus Neumann's 'Across the Seas ...  

New Hampshire's revolution and Australia

14 Feb 2016 | The American primaries cast a grim shadow over drifting Australian nationhood, writes Lucas ...