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It’s the ideology that’s dividing America. On the surface, critical race theory claims to merely highlight the racism and injustices of the past so that our societies can overcome any residual effects of them in the present. But dig a little deeper and you’ll discover [...]

2018 speech: I wish to acknowledge the custodians of this land, the Turrbal clan of the Jagera people and their Elders past and present. I acknowledge their continuing culture, especially their contribution to Australian life. I recognise we are working on their traditional country. I [...]

The debate over critical race theory (CRT) is lighting up media channels across America. Parents are the latest to voice their concerns, telling school district boards that CRT is making their children hate each other on the basis of skin colour. Those defending critical race [...]

Written by Bruce Pascoe in 2014, Dark Emu claimed to recover a forgotten history of Indigenous Australia. Pascoe’s book asserted that before European colonisation, Aboriginal communities were not ‘hunter-gatherers’ but used complex farming practices, baked bread, built houses, lived in large settlements and invented democracy. [...]

The Canberra Declaration is committed to the sanctity of human life and the equal worth of every person. Our historic statement, released just over ten years ago, wholeheartedly affirms this: “We believe that all human life, being made in the image of God, has intrinsic [...]

Aboriginal Family Violence Policing Conference 2018 -- Keynote Address I want to start by acknowledging the fact the majority of Indigenous Australians do the right thing. Most of us are proud of our cultural heritage and we are keen to build fulfilling lives for our [...]

An explosive new book is out for Reconciliation Week. It is called Secrets and Lies: The Shocking Truth of Recent Australian Aboriginal History, A Memoir. It covers the period from 1975 to 2021. While First Nations people are asking for a Voice and Truth Telling, [...]

The uprising of the woke generation. We are in a bitter culture war. Young people are graduating our education system not with freedom and diversity of thought, but with a new framework for understanding life -- a new worldview -- which is somewhat angry, anti-authority [...]

An adorable one-minute video has been making the rounds online over recent days. In it, a father and his preschool-aged daughter talk about racism and why it’s so important that we judge each other by character, not skin colour. “Daddy teaches you you can be [...]

Extract from new book Secrets and Lies: The Shocking Truth of Recent Australian Aboriginal History, A Memoir. ~ Reconciliation Week is commemorated from May 27 to June 3, from Recognition Day to Mabo Day. However, I think it should be an eight-day week starting on [...]

Editor's Note: This is well-written and well researched article by a man who has a deep affinity with our Indigenous brothers and sisters. Mark Powell’s forebears were what used to be known as Kanakas (1847-1901) many of whom were slaves. We are all in favour [...]

The police took my grandmother away when my mum was about seven. Her story about the stolen generations haunted me for years, but she was a Christian and taught me to forgive and be set free.

The past five years has demonstrated a paradigm shift as to how people in the West view the world. Dr. Voddie T. Baucham argues in his book, Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism’s Looming Catastrophe (Salem, 2021) that this will be the issue [...]

‘Wokeness’ is a term being bandied about a lot today, but what does it actually mean? With repeated use, and without defining the term, we risk turning it into an empty insult. In fact, ‘wokeness’ has a precise meaning among academics who have been studying [...]

April 29 marked the 76th anniversary of the liberation of Dachau. If it’s acknowledged at all, expect the usual cliché-ridden coverage that trivialises one of the greatest horrors of history, while the next Reich waits in the wings. Here are a few Holocaust lessons you [...]

You are doomed if you are one of these: Not all that long ago it was commonly acknowledged that certain folks really were the dregs of society -- you know, rapists, drug smugglers, murderers, and those guilty of high treason. But things have changed. Those [...]

You’ve almost certainly encountered Critical Race Theory over the last year, even if those words aren’t familiar. Gaining immense popularity in the wake of the George Floyd protests, Critical Race Theory (CRT) is the view that Western civilisation is inherently racist, and that white people [...]

My family is originally from the Solomon Islands. And they came to Australia to work on the sugar cane plantations in Queensland. Called “Kanakas’, they were essentially treated like slaves. One of the most formative experiences of my childhood was going with my father to [...]

We as fathers need to pass on our love for Australia to our children. If we do not, who will? I am not talking about some sort of jingoistic conceit for our country, but a clear and deep love of our nation despite our nation's [...]

‘Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind.’ ~ Romans 12:2 This is part 5 of a multipart series exploring the ideas around the secular ideology of Critical Theory in the book ‘Cynical Theories: How Universities Made [...]