Robert Hill

There was a sad irony to the launch of The Australian Wars at the Australian War Memorial -- sad for its authors promoting the notion of Frontier Wars on the basis of 'evidence' that is less than meagre Aug 28 2026 17 mins The great thing about science is that it’s self-correcting.

Decades have been devoted to counting and all too often exaggerating indigenous deaths after 1788. Pointedly overlooked, the endemic violence of Aboriginal society Aug 21 2026 11 mins An age of communication such as ours is also an age of logocracy, the rule of words and those who have mastered them.

The victims of Running Waters and other inter-tribal conflicts cannot be erased from the history of Australian violence simply because their killers were also Aboriginal Aug 20 2026 10 mins A year after the March for Humanity its blowhard backers are celebrating the anniversary and themselves. Like honesty, shame remains a rare commodity in their ranks Aug 20 2026 5 mins Halting the eyesore plague of hilltop bird-mincers requires politicians to tell the climate-panic industry to back off.