Australia's white supremacist path

Saturday Sep 23

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The No campaign's rhetoric on the Voice to Parliament has at times skirted the boundaries of conspiracy, and high-profile neo-Nazis are paying attention, Maeve McGregor wrote this week. Is Australia sleepwalking into a crisis of white supremacism?

Elsewhere a Crikey investigation revealed that a Presbyterian church committee had four years to consult with its missionary organisation and two Indigenous ministers — but in its final report, their views are absent.

We also delved into the spotted history of No campaigner Gary Johns, questioned how lucrative Scott Morrison's book will be, and kicked off a new series picking apart a Tony Abbott legacy: carbon credits.

Hope you’re having a great weekend,

Jack Callil,
Opinion editor

Australia is sleepwalking down the road to white supremacism

MAEVE MCGREGOR

Videos on social media expose the intentions of high-profile white supremacists to exploit the racist resentment the mainstream right has unleashed.

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton; neo-Nazi protesters in Melbourne (Images: AAP)

Australia — where pointing out racism is now worse than racism itself

BERNARD KEANE

We're told not to call racist No supporters racist, for fear of upsetting them — as if delicately protecting their feelings is going to win the referendum.

Professor Marcia Langton addresses the National Press Club (Image: AAP/Lukas Coch)

We don’t want reconciliation. We want a reckoning

KEIRAN STEWART-ASSHETON

To those who believe voting Yes is progressive, we ask you to see the Voice for what it is: a meaningless, regressive consolation prize.

(Image: Zennie/Private Media)

Presbyterian Church failed to properly consult its Indigenous ministers ahead of Welcome to Country ban

ANTON NILSSON and JACK CALLIL

Exclusive: A church committee had four years to consult with its missionary organisation and two Indigenous ministers. In its final report, which quotes Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s father, their views are absent.

(Image: Zennie/Private Media)

Presbyterian Church disregards its colonial past by banning Acknowledgements of and Welcomes to Country

ANNE PATTEL-GRAY

The decision ignored the voices of its Indigenous ministry workers and is deeply disrespectful to them, and to all Aboriginal peoples.

(Image: Zennie/Private Media)

With Gary Johns, the malice is a feature, not a bug

DOMINIC KELLY

The former Labor MP remains involved in the No campaign despite a history of appalling statements about Indigenous peoples.

Former Labor MP Gary Johns in 2017 (Image: AAP/Mick Tsikas)

We are being conned on carbon credits — they’re an Abbott-era fiction, and an expensive one

BERNARD KEANE

In a new series, Crikey looks at the carbon credits con job that guarantees Australia will fail to meet its climate targets.

(Image: Zennie/Private Media)

‘It’ll sell less than 100 in the US’: Has ScoMo misjudged the Christian publishing market?

CHARLIE LEWIS

Our former Pentecostal prime minister has promised a PM's book 'quite unlike any other'. But will his tilt at the US Christian market pay off?

Liberal MP Scott Morrison (Image: AAP/Mick Tsikas)

Australian Assange delegation to meet with US politicians including RFK Jr

ANTON NILSSON

Many US politicians due to meet the group have expressed strong support for Assange. A reception with ambassador Kevin Rudd is planned as well.

Julian Assange in 2021 (Image: PA/Victoria Jones)

Russell Brand took his transgression schtick wherever the money was

BERNARD KEANE

Once adored by the left, Brand is now supported by the right, who believe rape allegations against him are just a globalist plot.

Russell Brand on September 16 after allegations surfaced (Image: AAP/James Manning/PA/AP)

The right’s No campaign is a Trojan horse

MAEVE MCGREGOR

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s comments exposed the ideological game plan of the right, and it’s ugly.

(Image: Zennie/Private Media)

What Tim Gurner’s headburp tells us about politics today

GUY RUNDLE

Capitalism can't afford high unemployment anymore, and Labor is the one enforcing most of the pain. What's this political cosplay all about?

Tim Gurner (Image: Financial Review/Private Media)

‘Shut up! We’re trying to get you a Voice!’

GUY RUNDLE

The Yes camp is still talking down to Indigenous No advocates and doing the 'make history' thing. It will get better results by trying to get the vote — not change who people are.

A Yes campaign rally in Melbourne (Image: AAP/Diego Fedele)

Universities ‘protecting their brand, not their students’: education minister needs to seize moment on sexual assault reforms

KRISTINE ZIWICA

The Senate inquiry into sexual consent laws represents a watershed moment, but acknowledgement is not enough — now is the time for action.

Minister for Education Jason Clare (Image: AAP/Mick Tsikas)

Price’s denialism takes the Coalition to a new Indigenous Affairs policy: erasure of First Peoples

BERNARD KEANE

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price's claim that colonisation was a positive experience reveals the denialism and erasure at the heart of the No campaign.

Shadow minister for Indigenous Australians Jacinta Nampijinpa Price (Image: AAP/Lukas Coch)

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