Our reaction to the debate over the Hey Hey skit speaks volumes about our nation, writes CHRIS GRAHAM*.

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it probably is a duck. And if it sounds like racism and looks like racism, but a whole pile of people mistook it for light entertainment, then […]

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“ABORIGINAL leader Noel Pearson has resigned as director of the Cape York Institute - a think tank that has led the national debate on welfare reform and provided educational programs for young people - to focus on a land rights battle with the Queensland Government.”
So reports The Australian newspaper this morning. In other news, more […]

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One of the benefits of Alzheimer’s Disease is that you can hide your own Easter eggs. One of the downsides is that it can sometimes cause you to write stuff like this: “On this first anniversary of Sorry Day, Kevin Rudd’s official apology to the Stolen Generations, there is still a great deal to be […]

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It took almost three years for the Howard government to get a ‘please explain’ from the United Nations on its treatment of Aboriginal people. Kevin Rudd’s administration looks like achieving it inless than two.
Earlier this week, a group of human rights lawyers lodged a complaint against the Northern Territory intervention with the United Nations Committee […]

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Two weeks ago, it emerged the Rudd Government announced it had no intention of making good on a pre-election pledge to move Australia Day to a date that’s more inclusive of all Australians, black and white.
Instead, the ALP’s National Platform would be rewritten to “remove any ambiguity” on the issue, announced ALP national secretary Karl […]

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Aboriginal culture has been under particularly heavy fire from white Australia for the past few years, but ironically the worst culture on earth has nothing to with race. I’ll return to that in a minute.
Most readers would be aware by now of a video on YouTube from the Northern Territory, in which a police officer […]

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Peter Garrett - in his famed ‘jocular conversation’ with radio jock Steve Price before the 2008 election - remarked that once in office, Labor would simply change all of its election promises.
In a strange twist of fate, the ALP has confirmed it is re-writing its national platform to ensure there is “no ambiguity” on the […]

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There are many police who, day in day out, do a very good job in very trying circumstances. And then there’s police like this…

The deceased victim is Oscar Grant, an Oakland, USA man aged 22. He has a four-year-old son.
The cop is Officer Johannes Mehserle, and is apparently no relation to Chris Hurley.
The shooting […]

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Timing, as they say, is everything in politics. Here’s a Churchillian Kevin Rudd at the Monday launch of the National Australia Bank’s Reconciliation Action Plan, a program run by Reconciliation Australia which aims to convince corporate Australia to help blackfellas through the creation of real jobs.

Lighting the candle of hope is one thing. Building […]

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Politics has once again got in the way of pragmatism and principle. I am, of course, referring to the feigned Liberal outrage over the long-awaited delivery of a national apology to members of the Stolen Generations.
Media reports claim that when parliament resumes next month, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will utter the five letter word that […]

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