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Aborigines here have the eternal key to reconciliation

Aborigines here have the eternal key to reconciliation

One hundred years ago this year, four young Indigenous evangelists first preached the Gospel at Ikuntji (Haasts Bluff) 200 km west of Alice Springs. Ikuntji is the home of the Western Arrernte, Pintupi and Pitjantjatjara people. The evangelists’ aim was to...

Aboriginal sovereignty is a myth

Aboriginal sovereignty is a myth

“There’ll be plenty of people saying the next thing is a treaty. Now I think, of all of the absurdities coming out of this debate, there is nothing more absurd than the notion of making a treaty with the indigi... How can you make a treaty with yourself? Treaties are...

Payback “justice” is an insatiable beast

Payback “justice” is an insatiable beast

Perpetually outraged Senator Lidia Thorpe is a real life caricature of radical blacktivism, including the refusal to spell words correctly like a literate person. Apparently a basic level of literacy is “acting white”, a perverse attitude even President Obama rebuked....

Makarrata means much more than peace after dispute

Makarrata means much more than peace after dispute

Three months after the Uluru Statement From The Heart was released in May, 2017, the ABC published an article explaining exactly what makarrata means. The Uluru Statement demanded a “Voice”: a new Canberra bureaucracy to tell parliament what all Aboriginals are...

The “Voice” is not the needed change

The “Voice” is not the needed change

The need to close the gap in health and wellbeing between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians was the centrepiece of Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney’s speech at the National Press Club, in which she spoke about the proposed Indigenous voice to...

Changing the Constitution | 23.9

Changing the Constitution | 23.9

Dave Pellowe was at Wednesday's symposium hosted by The Samuel Griffith Society on the additional Canberra 'Voice', and has put together a short package of excerpts from the event to help all Australians better understand some of the important considerations as we...

Triumph over trauma | 23.7

Triumph over trauma | 23.7

Bindi Cole Chocka has a timely message for all Australians as we debate how to best help vulnerable Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders. Dave Pellowe explored Bindi's testimony of triumph over trauma back in 2019, but the Truth in this replay is still as profound...

Another Canberra Voice | 23.4

Another Canberra Voice | 23.4

Does the Aboriginal Industry not already have a "voice" to government? What exactly is the referendum's agenda? Who is organising the "NO" campaign? Dave Pellowe explores these big questions with special guest Dr Gary Johns. You can enjoy more Good Sauce articles and...

The Voice is Racist

The Voice is Racist

The proposal for a so-called ‘Indigenous Voice to the Australian Parliament’ and now a Treaty with disparate Aboriginal tribes are part of a woke fiction that Australia engages in that most other countries don’t.Go to any nation throughout Asia, Africa or Europe, and...