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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