Month: August 2025

The idea that some people are more predestined to criminality than others because of race is a topic canvassed by Hannah Arendt in her discourse on Antisemitism, the first section of The Origins of Totalitarianism […]

Chapter 4: First Contact in Australia A Meeting of Worlds When the First Fleet arrived at Warrane (Sydney Cove) in January 1788, it was not the first time Aboriginal people had seen Europeans. Dutch navigators […]

Chapter 3: The British Crown and Terra Nullius The Crown as Coloniser When the First Fleet landed in 1788, it did not arrive as an independent venture. It came under the authority of the British […]

Protest in Britain has become dangerous of late. Shaky lawmakers minding their elected positions, displaying decorative ignorance, have been criminalising protests against the war in Gaza, branding certain groups “terrorist” in inclination. While the laws […]

By James Moore “What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? – it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. […]

Chapter 2: Colonisation as a Global Project Why We Can’t See Australia in Isolation To understand what happened in Australia, we have to look outward. Colonisation here wasn’t an isolated accident. It was part of […]