by Chris Merritt | Oct 24, 2024 | Chris Merritt, Commentary, Freedom of Speech, Media Article, Rule of Law Issue, The Voice: Uluru Statement
The real problem with Lidia Thorpe is not her manners. It’s her ignorance, closely followed by her duplicity.How could a member of the senate be so confused about basic elements of this country’s system of government?And how could any elected official boast about what...
by Chris Merritt | Aug 29, 2024 | Chris Merritt, Commentary, Media Article, Rule of Law Issue, The Voice: Uluru Statement
Denying reality never ends well. Sooner or later someone comes along who punctures fashionable delusions. Hans Christian Anderson made this clear in his fairytale about The Emperor’s new Clothes. And almost two centuries later, exactly the same point has been made by...
by Chris Merritt | Oct 19, 2023 | Chris Merritt, Media Article, The Voice: Uluru Statement
The voice referendum looks set to have an impact its proponents could never have imagined: equality of citizenship has been restored as the guiding principle of Indigenous affairs.It prevailed with ease over the patronising idea that Aborigines and Torres Islanders...
by Chris Merritt | Sep 28, 2023 | Chris Merritt, Commentary, Media Article, The Voice: Uluru Statement
Noel Pearson did the nation a favour on Wednesday when he invoked the example of Dr Martin Luther King, one of the pathfinders for the American civil rights movement. Pearson told the National Press Club: “Let’s follow Dr King’s dream – that our children will...
by Chris Merritt | Sep 21, 2023 | Chris Merritt, Media Article, The Voice: Uluru Statement
In 1965, when the late Charles Perkins led the anti-racist Freedom Ride, the goal was clear. Perkins and those who accompanied him on that bus tour, visited a string of country towns where racial separatism was blighting the lives of Aborigines. The Freedom Riders,...
by Chris Merritt | Sep 12, 2023 | Chris Merritt, Commentary, Media Article, Rule of Law Issue, The Voice: Uluru Statement
The most regrettable aspect of this week’s report by Victoria’s Yoorrook Justice Commission is its biased attempt to rewrite Indigenous history and portray it as “truth-telling”. The fact that this commission found that Aborigines had been subjected to injustice was...
