Author Archives: Grant

Australia Day Message

Strange gods are set up in the market-place and strange doctrines are preached at the street corner. A call goes out to all Australians who love their country to rally to her cause. All men of good-will, irrespective of affiliation … Read More

ANA 150 Years

The first meeting of the Australian Natives Association was held at Grimwoods Hotel in Melbourne on the evening of the 24th of April 1871. This meeting was the result of wide and varied experiences from the Australian historical, social, economic … Read More

Murrumbidgee Survey 2020

Members of the A.N.A Ranger group engaged in a two-night, three-day survey of natural reserves surrounding the Murrumbidgee River in NSW before the new-year. The object of the adventure apart from the obvious leisure and challenge was to consider potential … Read More

Electioneering is Futile

Beyond its utility for raising awareness for issues of importance, raising money through the AEC or destabilising establishment actors, Electioneering serves no utility to Nationalists. The electioneering game, in-fact it is often the opposite. There has been a shared story … Read More

Henry B. Higgins Award

Australians historically are known as a sentimental people; We love our country, our heritage and the adventurous challenge for survival on our continent. The H. B. Higgins award was discussed amongst many well-minded Australians to provide the conduit for Australian … Read More

New Branches Forming – Join Now

Are you interested in helping found a branch in your local area? We are in conversations with potential branch-starting groups in Wagga Wagga, NSW Albury/Wadonga, Murray Devonport, TAS Orange, NSW The ANA provides the trustworthy foundation for like-minded men to … Read More

5 diggers on their way to bendigo - intended to symbolise the members of the Australian Natives' Association, and more generally the people of Australia.

On Wattle Day

Wattle day is very important to us, and every year we hold our monthly dinner meeting surrounded by branches of locally blooming wattle. We cherish the Australian landscape, all of its native plants and animals. This is fundamental to our … Read More

Australian Grit

We want the man who will lead the van, The man who will pioneer. We have no use for the gentleman, Or the cheating Cheap-Jack here; We have no room for the men who shirk The sweat of the brow. … Read More

Australian Loyalty

I had been asked why is it that I strike out my commitment for Australian heritage; it’s not a question asked too often in the sea of curiosity that might surround understanding the heart of a nativist. My thinking about … Read More

Remembering ANZAC

The blood of this nation was poured out all over foreign conflicts that did not concern us. The youth and vigour of the country has never recovered. Think of the lives of all of these men; who otherwise might have … Read More

Australian Cossacks

Globalisation in parallel to the influence of modernity has persistently since colonial times diluted the true meaning of what is to be an Australian; Urbanisation and popular culture imported from overseas has led to our capital cities being inhabited principally … Read More

Australian Ideals

Australian Ideals Henry Bourne Higgins, M.H.R 1902 The Two Principles It is clear that in Australia there is a struggle being waged between two conflicting principles – The commercial principle and the principle of solidarity – the principle of private … Read More

The Cultural Cringe

A. A. Phillips, 1950 The Australian Broadcasting Commission has a Sunday programme, designed to cajole a mild Sabbatarian bestirment of the wits, called ‘Incognito’. Paired musical performances are broadcast, one by an Australian, one by an overseas executant, but with … Read More