Category Archives: Australia

The Jindyworobak Movement

From Wikipedia: The Jindyworobak Movement was a nationalistic Australian literary movement whose white members sought to promote Indigenous Australian ideas and customs, particularly in poetry. They were active from the 1930s to around the 1950s. The movement intended to combat … Continue reading

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Remembering Australian Nationalist P. R. Stephensen: November 20, 1901 to May 28, 196

Percy Reginald Stephensen was an important ideological opponent of Jewish immigration into Australia. He feared it would lead to the end of White Australia and result in a balkanized country. On the one hand, one can see any opponent of … Continue reading

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Get Ready, China: This Is Why Australia Needs Nuclear Weapons

From The National Interest: Over the past century, Australia has been America’s most dependable military ally. In every major U.S. conflict, including World Wars I and II, Korea, Vietnam and Iraq, Australians have fought alongside. Yet as competition between China … Continue reading

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SMH: Australia lectured on human rights abuses by a rogues’ gallery of abusers

From the Sydney Morning Herald: Geneva: Oh, the irony. Oh, the hypocrisy. To be lectured by North Korea, Iran and China on our human rights abuses. Honestly? For precisely one minute and five seconds each, over a couple of hours, … Continue reading

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The Battle Against Free Speech In Australia

From the Sydney Morning Herald 2014: Fredrick Toben always insisted he wasn’t a Holocaust denier because you couldn’t deny something that never happened. The German-born Australian says there was never any systematic German program to kill Jewish people, denies the … Continue reading

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