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Category Archives: Aborigines
The Authenticity Trap: How Aboriginal Advocates Learned to Navigate Majority Australia’s Guilt
How did Australia’s Aborigines develop narratives that garnered maximum sympathy for their concerns from the majority population? The Aboriginal case is analytically interesting because it represents a community that has had to navigate a specific and unusually difficult set of … Continue reading
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The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for Australian Aboriginal Authority
Yirrkala, an aboriginal tribe in Australia’s Norther Territory, does not look like a site of jurisdictional conflict. It looks like a painting. Red earth meeting turquoise water. Mangroves. Sacred rock outcrops. The art centre. A dugong surfacing offshore. It looks … Continue reading
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The Extraordinary Vision Of Aborigines
At 2:40 mark of this interview, philosopher Nathan Cofnas says: “As a visiting high school student at Columbia University which is where I eventually went to get my BA and I took an anthropology class on uh the evolution of … Continue reading
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Claiming To Be Abo To Get Ahead In Australia
Comments at Steve Sailer: * Andrew Bolt (who you can think of as Australia’s Tucker Carlson) was sued under our anti-discrimination laws because of an opinion piece he wrote that criticised fair-skinned Aborigines for hogging the bulk of Aboriginal-only government … Continue reading
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David Reich’s New Book
Greg Cochran writes about David Reich’s new book: The people Reich dumps on are saying perfectly reasonable things. He criticizes Henry Harpending for saying that he’d never seen an African with a hobby. Of course, Henry had actually spent time … Continue reading
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‘Here’s a graduating class of Aboriginal Australian doctors. Each was the recipient of a scholarship.’
They look full-blooded aboriginal to me! (Hat tip) REPORT: UNSW Medicine celebrated a milestone today with the graduation of six Indigenous doctors – the highest number in a single year. The graduations cement UNSW’s place as a leader in Indigenous … Continue reading
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Australian student faces $200,000 bill in Facebook post racism row
A friend says: “Don’t come back to australia: you couldn’t afford to pay for just a day’s worth of your facebook posts.” Why on earth would aborigines need their own computer lab? If so, then other groups need their own … Continue reading
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Aborigines & Crime
From Wikipedia: Indigenous Australians commit crimes and are imprisoned at a disproportionately high rate in Australia. According to one source, there is “gross overrepresentation of Indigenous offenders at all stages of the criminal justice system”.[1] The 2006 census documented that … Continue reading
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White Man’s Burden
A mate of mine has taken on the white man’s burden and given an abo a job, but it has been an endless nightmare. The abo can’t find his birth certificate, can’t open a bank account, can’t access his tax … Continue reading
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Aboriginal Violence & Censorship
Vesna Tenodi emails: Dear Luke, I came across your post about Australian Aborigines, found the article interesting, and the links informative. I am an archaeologist and artist, based in Sydney, used to have a gallery in the Blue Mountains, now … Continue reading
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