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Gabriele Tergit's Käsebier Takes Berlin was a German publishing success in 1931, and then it slept. Though its author was a Jewish journalist it was not even noticed when books were burnt in 1933, by which time the author had fled Germany for Czechoslovakia, then Israel, finally settling. Then, in 1977, the novel was republished and a glorious, captivating mess brought fame to an 83-year-old

Caleb Love had quite a first season at Arizona. Love was named The Associated Press Pac-12 mens college basketball player and newcomer of the year on Tuesday by a panel

PwC was hired by the Victorian Treaty Advancement Commission to help determine who was an elder. After consulting 201 elders in 19 workshops, '80 per cent of those consulted wanted a way to challenge spurious elders'. This which not only turned out to be impossible, it called into question just how reliable were the 201 elders consulted in the first place!

Having read about the online behemoth's new AI app, Gemini, turning George Washington into a black man -- the image is at left -- I thought to test how it rates my favourite magazine. The result: Keith Windschuttle is an unreliable source, Tony Thomas is limited by his biases, and literary grifter Bruce Pascoe has been much sinned against

The national broadcaster has paid $670,000-plus since 2020 to RMIT to run Fact Check, a unit that fancies itself as 'combining academic excellence and the best of Australian journalism'. Is it any surprise the operation was compromised by error and bias, or that the ABC is moving the operation in-house. Don't expect any improvement

It is only recently that Aboriginality became chic. Think, say, of a half-Aboriginal ABC pontificator who formerly emphasised his Anglo upbringing. Then, all at once and inspired by US racial politics, the pontificator promptly forswears the Anglo bit of his heritage, assumes thepersona of an Aborigine and becomes a much-lauded hero for his 'courage'. Don't fancy indigeneity? Not to worry, any number of gender identities are available for public display

True, the revenue streams from Black Duck Foods haven't been quite so robust of late, but spare not a moment's concern for the fauxborigine charlatan's financial good health. Between grants, a professorial pay packet from Melbourne University, Dark Emu royalties, speaker gigs, paying guests at his Gypsy Point farm and volunteer labor, King Bruce of the Scam'em Nation is still doing quite nicely

Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has hit out at what she calls a romanticised Noble Savage view of Aboriginal culture that traps Indigenous people in abject poverty.

Freedom of speech, thought, movement, religion and association are the pillars of any free society. They cannot be allowed to exist in name alone, but must be protected and strengthened, never suppressed or curtailed. This isn't the Australia being advanced by political, academic, corporate and sporting leaders and their institutions

Australia’s 'educated classes', asserts William J Lines in Romancing the Primitive, have lost their faith in the virtues of Western civilisation. Trapped in a zero-sum paradigm, social justice warriors view the past as a 'purely moral drama of villains and victimhood' and have, accordingly, 'idealised Aboriginal life beyond recognition'. We have come a long way from the liberalism of First Fleet observer Watkin Tench