Who is an Aborigine?
The current definition makes it clear who is an Aborigine, for legal purposes, and therefore eligible for the 
special assistance provided by governments for Aborigines only.
The definition says nothing about Aboriginal culture, or the cultural differences between the more traditional Aborigines and those who have lost much, if not all, of their culture.
It is legitimate to ask whether the definition provides an appropriate base for the development of policies and programmes.
Extract from free Quadrant eBook Relhiperra: About Aborigines by Paul G. E. Albrecht.
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Black magic at the CSIRO
Does the S in CSIRO stand for superstition?
In the latest Quadrant Christopher Akehurst explores the CSIRO’s belief in “evil spirits”, magic and political correctness.
Read Christopher Akehurst’s “Smoking Out Evil Spirits” here…
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Contents are here…
Opinion
Bolt Report returns
Back on Sunday on Channel 10 - at 10 am and 4.30 pm, or at noon on Southern Cross.
Michael Kile
A Tale of Two Shoes
Everyone knows about that shoe but how many know about the other one? Also a right shoe, ironically, it too slipped off the foot of a woman under duress. More...
Michael Galak
The love bank
It has mystified me – why Australians are so negative about their banks, especially at the time of the threatened recurrence of the Global Financial Crisis. More...
Koko wins!!
Just announced that Red Dog has won best film at the Samsung 2012 AACTA Awards. Last August in QO Philippa Martyr threw Koko an Oscar nomination. More...
Michael Duffy
On Tony Abbott
He has become, at least to outward appearances, a man more ordinary. More...
Philippa Martyr
Tinker, Tailor, Gary Oldman
Gary Oldman’s wonderful, but only because you know he’s not being Gary Oldman’s usual screen self. Instead he just potters about with a big pair of glasses on. More…
John Izzard
Constitutional indigestion
Australia Day 2012 may well be the moment when the proposed changes to the Australian Constitution, to grant special favours to people of Aboriginal descent, unravelled. More…
Keith Windschuttle
Silencing Constitution debate
Brull's double standard seeks to deny the right to speak to anyone of whom he does not approve. On an issue as momentous as a referendum to change the constitution, every Australian has the right to speak freely. More…
Hate List updated
The Australia Day Hate List has been updated with the Australia Day Hate Video. More…
It’s official!!
Professor Bunyip: “Quadrant gets better with every latest issue.” More…
Peter Smith
Baby power packs punch
Like a confidence trickster intending to fleece the unwary, the Left will inevitably ramp up a disingenuous campaign to lower the voting age. More…
Keith Windschuttle
Bad faith debate
The report to change the Constitution to recognize indigenous people is written in bad faith. It attempts to intimidate Australians by exploiting the emotions of guilt and shame. More…
Marcia Langton
Quadrant does lunch
“Patrick McCauley, speaking for the old Quadrant club of white men who lunch…” More…
Blog Hunter
Doomed Planet
Tom Quirk
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Climate Change
Did Douglas Adams anticipate Climate Change modelling? More...
Walter Starck
The real threat of climate change
There is simply too much ego, money, careers, reputations and political commitment now depending upon dangerous anthropogenic climate change for its advocates to even consider that the threat might actually not be so dire. More…
Tony Thomas
Sinking, sinking, not
Tuvalu and the Maldives would like money from the West as victims of the West's CO2 emissions. However, their purported problems are largely solvable by their own efforts, without the need to lay guilt trips on the developed countries. More…
Tom Quirk
A Tale of Two Disciplines
As a demonstration of how to present scientific discovery and understanding, the contrast between the possible discovery of the Higgs particle and climate science progress could not be more different. More…
IPCC correction
How a Quadrant Online book review led to the IPCC making a correction. Tony Thomas tells the story here…
Tony Thomas
Climate correction in NZ
A casual visitor to a museum makes a complaint, an official agrees it is valid, and pledges to get to work on a correction. Is life meant to be this easy? More…
Summer 2012
Australia Day poems
Our favourite collection of poems for celebration, and remembrance, on our day. More…
David F. Smith
Green myths about Australian farming
Put simply, we shouldn’t have come here—we should have left it to the Aborigines who were so much more in harmony with the land than we are. More…
Before Steyn
Mark Steyn is shortly to visit Australia (see What’s On). Daryl McCann’s review of Steyn’s recent book After America is here…
What’s On
8 February: Jennifer Marohasy at the Sydney Institute.
21 February: Dan Hannan in Sydney.
24 February: Dan Hannan in Melbourne.
27 February: Mark Steyn in Melbourne.
29 February: Mark Steyn in Sydney.
2 March: Mark Steyn in Brisbane.
Details here…