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
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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
Entryism, Character & Political Utility
Australia cannot be re-taken by lobbying & electioneering activities – If any group massed enough money and influence that it could ‘out-lobby’ international finance capital – it would have enough power on its own to form its own government, and … Read More
Wishes Without Will-Power
“Almost everybody has wishes, but very few people resolutely set out to get what they want. Many a young person sits in a small bedroom and thinks:- “Why cannot I have the pleasures that others have? Why cannot I, too, … Read More
To Be Amused – Henry Lawson
You ask me to be gay and glad While lurid clouds of danger loom, And vain and bad and gambling mad, Australia races to her doom. You bid me sing the light and fair, The dance, the glance on pleasure’s … Read More
On Australian Identity
“Australia” as a nation is truly a European-born construct, therefore an ‘Aboriginal’ cannot be an Australian, He is an inseparable member to a tribe or nation which by blood and culture define his true identity and place in the world. … Read More
The Australian Solution
The Australian Natives Association sees to the social and moral development of its members, Our motto: ‘Every man a king in his own home, Every native a pillar in his own community.‘ The cultivation of a stronger sense of … Read More
‘The New Plant’
The Australian Natives Association has a strong focus on the cultivation of Australian culture, that is that ‘European-descent’ cultural development that has taken place in Australia since the first fleet. This brief poem, ascribes the general summary of our belief … Read More