Show notes
Greeting:
My fellow Australians welcome, I’m John Andrews and you are watching Advancing Australia.
Introduction:
This is the inaugural show, our first show, it’s been a long
time coming and there is still so much to be done behind the scenes,
researching for the show, setting up a studio, all this needs to be done but I
had to start this off, just had to make a start to get this whole thing going
because there is so much to talk about right now, so many things happening but
there are so few strong voices on the Right speaking out.
So tonight I’ll tell you a little bit about the show and what
I hope to achieve, then we will look at a couple of topical issues that relate
to the Australian identity – the allegedly racist incidents at the Sydney Test,
and Cricket Australia more generally, Margaret Court’s Companion of the Order
of Australia Award, and Australia Day more generally and what all of this means
for Australian Nationalism, which is what we are all about.
Anecdote:
Before I get right into everything I just wanted to share a
brief anecdote of something that happened on Monday. A brief story about a
conversation that I had at my regular coffee shop early on Monday, I’m an early
riser and I when for my morning stroll I wore my MAGA hat and while I was in
the line an older gentleman, a boomer, came up to me and looked at my headwear
and he asked “Is that a genuine Trump hat”. I replied that it was and he asked
me “Do you think that Trump is going away?”
I told him that I wasn’t sure what Trump’s future was and
that whatever happens to Trump one thing is sure and that his empowering of the
Right, of populists and Nationalists to stand up and speak in a forthright
manner on what we see as the problems and solutions was not going anywhere,
anytime soon, and that Nationalism was going to be a part of the political
landscape for a good while longer. I asked what he thought about all of that,
and about Trump and he said “Nationalism isn’t going anywhere, we need our
Nationalists, the Nation is important”. Then, out of his pocket he produced his
hat, but it was a black hat and it had a Greens logo on it.
He said, “we are on different sides of the issues but I’m
glad we chatted” and as excused himself he said “enjoy your day” and I said
“thanks, and you enjoy tomorrow”, which was yesterday, Australia Day, and he
had a little chuckle and we shook hands and that was the end of the little conversation
as we both carried on with our days.
What is Advancing Australia?
I wanted to start this show and this community to build upon
the foundation of our ideas, the love of this country and its citizens, and to
expound on and to spread our ideas.
We have a lot of problems in Australia to talk about, as I
mentioned, we have those seeking to sew division between races, the sexes, the
classes, those that are seeking to push all sorts of sexual degeneracy and
homonormativity onto our children. We see a strong preference for the foreign
and cosmopolitan, a certain xenophilia, undermining our culture and our cultural
confidence in our news, in the arts, in the academies, in schools, in some
churches, in government institutions and in our literature.
We are going to reinstall confidence in our culture by having
the discussions that others, including most mainstream Conservative voices, are
too afraid to have. This is the main point, the main difference between us, who
are Paleo-Conservative, Australia First, Advancing Australia, right wing
reactionaries, versus our so-called Conservatives, our Insiders who, really,
have never “Conserved” anything, who push green energy, gay marriage, a
separate parliament for Aboriginals, inferior military acquisitions and all of
this.
We are different because we are prepared to say the following
things that simply differentiate us from our Conservative and Classical Liberal
compatriots, with whom we otherwise share many interests, and these are:
We believe that marriage is between a man and a woman,
because having a mother and a father gives children the best opportunity in
life.
That the influence or encouragement of children to identify
as transgender, to give them hormones or otherwise interfere in their natural
development and maturity, to the age of 21, should be a Federal crime.
That abortion in all circumstances is morally wrong and that
there should be Federal laws in Australia to enshrine legal personhood and
legal rights from the moment of conception.
There are a few other areas and these are just some but here
is the main difference: the age of small government is over.
We believe that we should take control of institutions
directly, as the Left has done over a number of decades, to directly propagate
our ideas, to enshrine them within the institutions and all of their various
activities, contracts, actions and decisions; to further our political and
social aims with the arms of government.
This is exactly what the Left have done, but Conservatives
and Classical Liberals have lost in every single theatre of the culture war
because they have no stomach for the fight at an institutional level, they would rather lose with dignity, holding
onto the precious virtue of “small government”.
In fact, “small government” is a useless mantra that pays lip
service to some cold war ideal, in reality government continues to grow at a
“slower pace” under conservatives, but it still grows and all the while the
functionaries, the inhabitants, the enactors of policy are all Leftists that are
dividing our citizens, sewing division on all of the areas we have mentioned.
This is not a complete thesis, a complete introduction of who
we are and what we are seeking to achieve, but it is a taste of what we are
about, the issues we will be discussing things, the lens through which we will
critique the stories of the day and how we will provide solutions: through
strength, confidence, moral clarity, and unlike Conservatives or Classical
Liberals, with the force of the Law and State Action. Like I said, the days of
“small government” are over.
So like my little anecdote at the top of the show with the
Boomer in the Greens hat, we can project cultural confidence and approach our
conversations in such a way that even those that disagree with us will see the
validity and the importance of our arguments. We will talk about all of this in
coming shows so we can park that there for now.
Okay let’s look at our stories for the day.
Margaret Court:
According to Wikipedia:
“Court is one of only three players in history (all women) to
have won the "Grand Slam Boxed Set", consisting of every Grand Slam
title (the singles, doubles and mixed doubles). Court, however, is the only one
in tennis history to complete a Multiple Grand Slam set, twice, in all three
disciplines: singles, women's doubles and mixed doubles. Uniquely, she won all
12 as an amateur and then after a period of retirement, returned as a
professional to win all 12 again. Court is also one of only six tennis players
ever to win a Multiple Grand Slam set in two disciplines, matching Roy Emerson,
Martina Navratilova, Frank Sedgman, Doris Hart and Serena Williams.
The International Tennis Hall of Fame states: "For sheer
strength of performance and accomplishment there has never been a tennis player
to match (her)."”
On Saturday 23rd January the news of her elevation from
Officer of the Order of Australia, to a Companion of the Order of Australia was
leaked and a concerted campaign against normal, healthy, Australian values
began.
7 articles in 5 days were produced on the ABC about Margaret
Court for daring to push back on the narrative of homonormativity prevalent in
the culture.
Former ABC
journalist Kerry O'Brien rejects Australia Day honour in protest over Margaret
Court award
Former ABC journalist Kerry O'Brien refuses to accept his
Australia Day award, saying the decision to give former tennis great Margaret
Court the country's highest honour is "deeply insensitive" and
"divisive".
1 day ago ABC NEWS
Canberra
doctor returns OAM in protest against Margaret Court 2021 Australia Day honour
Canberra medical doctor Clara Tuck Meng Soo, who has worked
with many LGBT patients, is returning her Order of Australia Medal in protest
against the awarding of the nation's highest honour to tennis great Margaret
Court.
3 days ago ABC NEWS
Margaret
Court defends her beliefs after Australia Day honour controversy
Tennis great Margaret Court responded to the controversy over
her appointment to the highest level of the Order of Australia.
4 days ago ABC NEWS
Premiers
criticise Australia Day honour, Margaret Court returns serve
Two state Premiers say the tennis great shouldn't receive the
accolade because of her views on the LGBT community, but Mrs Court says her
critics should move on. Jess Warriner reports.
4 days ago ABC NEWS
Margaret
Court defends right to religious freedom of speech, slams media over 2021
Australia Day Honours leak
Former tennis great Margaret Court says she is honoured and
grateful to be promoted to the highest level of the Order of Australia, despite
the decision coming under fire from two state premiers and LGBT groups
concerned about her past criticisms of same sex marriage.
4 days ago ABC NEWS
Daniel
Andrews condemns Margaret Court's inclusion in Australia Day honours list
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews condemns the decision to
make tennis great Margaret Court a Companion of the Order of Australia in a
press conference held on January 22, 2021.
5 days ago ABC NEWS
Daniel
Andrews, Mark McGowan oppose Australia Day honour for tennis legend Margaret
Court because of her LGBT views
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews and WA's Mark McGowan say
they do not support former tennis great Margaret Court being recognised with an
Australia Day honour because of her "disgraceful, hurtful" views
about the LGBT community.
5 days ago ABC NEWS
Here are a sample of quotes from those articles:
"Margaret Court was a great tennis player who thrilled
most Australians in her tennis years including me, but her hurtful and divisive
criticisms relating to the fundamental rights of the LGBTQ+ community are
clearly repugnant to many Australians,"
What crimes is Margaret Court, a great Australian Woman,
three time grand slam winner and Minister in a Perth Pentecostal Church,
accused of? What are her “hurtful and divisive comments”?
To quote one of the articles from the ABC:
“Ms Court has described homosexuality as "an abominable
sexual practice" and wrote an open letter in 2017 saying she would boycott
Qantas over its support of same-sex marriage.
"I teach what the Bible says about things and you get
persecuted for it," she said in an ABC interview last year.
In 2013, she wrote a letter to the editor in a newspaper
lamenting the birth of Australian tennis player Casey Dellacqua's child in a same-sex
relationship.
"It is with sadness that I see that this baby has
seemingly been deprived of a father," Ms Court wrote.
There are a few things to be said here about this issue.
[Ad lib topics]
Federal Ministers silent.
Gutsy decision to back Court by the selection committee, no
doubt about that but the PM would have known well in advance of the decisions
and could have mounted a defence, at least at a lower level within the
government. Even some support for heterosexual families would have been great.
Difference between us and Conservatives.
Cricket Australia:
I’m sure that many of you will have seen the press coverage
of the alleged racism displayed by the crowd on the fourth day of the Sydney
Test.
Today the Sydney Morning Herald published an article entitled
“India walk-off threat emerges as Cricket Australia clears men ejected from SCG”.
It says: “A Cricket Australia report has cleared the six men
ejected from their seats during the Sydney Test of racially abusing Mohammed
Siraj as it emerged the Indian team had refused to keep playing until action
was taken over their complaints to umpires.”
“According to sources with knowledge of CA’s investigation
into crowd behaviour in Sydney, the game’s governing body believes Indian
players were subjected to racial taunting from beyond the boundary.
CA interviewed multiple Indian players about claims they were
vilified by members of the crowd during the third Test from January 7 to 11.
The investigation also took in witness accounts from spectators, among them
people who contacted CA to volunteer what they saw and heard during the match.
The findings of the CA probe have now been sent to the
International Cricket Council, which gave CA 14 days to lodge a report.
The report says while they believed players had been racially
abused, CA investigators were unable to identify the culprits.“
CA, which is awaiting a final report from NSW Police, is
satisfied that the six men who were walked out of the lower tier of the Clive
Churchill and Brewongle stand by police on the fourth afternoon of the Test did
not make remarks of a racial nature to players.
Their removal occurred after rookie fast bowler Siraj
approached umpires Paul Reiffel and Paul Wilson alleging he had been abused by
spectators seated in the area behind where he was stationed on the rope.
The game was stopped for more than 10 minutes as the umpires
twice walked over to the boundary to talk to security guards where Siraj had
been fielding.
Sources now say the Indians had warned on the ground that
they wouldn’t resume play until their complaint was acted upon.
A group of four men, and two others sitting in front of them,
were soon after ushered from their seats by officers, before leaving the venue
of their own accord following interviews in the ground’s police room.”
Finally the article also states:
“Krishna Kumar also said a group of young men in the crowd
had called him and members of the Indian team “curry munchers” on the third day
of the match.”
So I was listening to the Test match during the time that the
allegation was made by Shiraz, as it has been reported that some in the crowd
had dubbed him, and I have to say that I was appalled.
The ABC Grandstand Cricket coverage went straight to talking
about how racist and disgusting Australia was, that Australian crowds were
terrible, that this was revolting and totally unacceptable, that the worst
thing in Australia that you could be was a racist. They went on to say that
this was definitely a racist incident.
They had no evidence to say this, none. They just moved
straight to demeaning the fellow citizens as being disgusting racists without a
shred of evidence presented to them.
The next day the Sydney Morning Herald reported an eye
witness: “I don’t know why [the Police kicked the men out]. Next thing you know you see Police
everywhere. It didn’t make sense. It was confusing”.
Also, the same evening as the incident occurred, NSW Police
apologised to the fans that had been ejected.
That stands in direct opposition to the coverage of the ABC,
the commentators on ABC Grandstand that went as far to say that, “with
everything going on the crowd really should feel lucky to be here”.
Further, on the Sunday after the Sydney Test the ABC
published an Opinion piece titled “Allegations of abuse towards Indian cricketers
at SCG is Australia's embarrassment”.
The piece states that “Not many professional athletes
fabricate incidents of racist abuse. Especially not in Australia, where the
stories of Adam Goodes, Heritier Lumumba, Robert Muir and countless others show
us what happens to those who dare complain.
On Sunday, Siraj did something as brave as any of them:
hearing verbal abuse again as he fielded on the boundary shortly before tea, he
moved to the middle of the ground and reported it.
Although both players said that Saturday's abuse was racist,
the precise nature of Sunday's incident remains under investigation by Cricket
Australia.”
So again, even when there was no quote available regarding
what was said, when eyewitnesses had come forward to say that there was no
basis to these allegations, the story persists with a life of its own. That
Australia is a racist country, and all that goes with that.
Now what is the effect of this, let’s look at the Brisbane
test: the final days of the nail-biting Brisbane test struggled to attract a
crowd at all. No wonder, who wants to attend a cricket match to be called a
racist, without evidence? All over the TV, radio, the legacy media. Who wants
that as a consequence of a family day out during the holidays?
Think back to what was mentioned earlier with the ABC
Grandstand commentary team, that they expressed the idea, without any pushback
from any other commentator on the team, that “with everything going on the
crowd really should feel lucky to be here”.
Okay, I’ve got an idea, it is in fact the Indian Cricket team
that should feel lucky to be in Australia during a global pandemic.
Ad lib about ABC commentary team:
·
History of degeneracy within their ranks
·
Issues with suicide a few years ago
o Certain
allegations about inappropriate activities
Is it any wonder that they say things like this, that we should
feel luck to go to the cricket?
So there is also more to this story on the cultural angle and
that is the attitude of Cricket Australia to Australia Day.
The Sydney Morning Herald produced an article on the Friday
before Australia Day titled “’Read the
room’: Indigenous cricket star slams PM over Australia Day stance”.
The article says “Indigenous cricketer Dan Christian has
taken aim at Scott Morrison as the game’s governing body hit back at the Prime
Minister amid the furore over cricket’s decision to dump the term ‘Australia
Day’ for promotional purposes.
On the same day Anthony Mundine applauded Cricket Australia’s
initiative and described Australia Day as “a dark, dark day”, Christian hit
back at Morrison on social media, telling him to “read the room”.”
The article goes on to say “Morrison suggested CA stick to
cricket and stay out of politics after they gave Big Bash teams the option of
switching the term ‘Australia Day’ to ‘January 26’ as a mark of respect for the
Indigenous community in three BBL games next Tuesday.
“I think a bit more focus on cricket and a bit less focus on
politics would be my message to Cricket Australia,” Morrison told radio station
4RO.”
He doubled down later in the day when he said it was “not a
particularly flash day for the people on those vessels either” in reference to
the 1788 arrival, which drew immediate criticism from Labor and the Greens.
The Wiradjuri cricketer, who spent time with Morrison as a
co-captain of the Prime Minister’s XI in 2019, expressed his frustration
online.
“Read the room Mr Prime Minister,” Christian posted.
TWEET:
“@CricketAus are leading the way because your government
won’t. There’ll be millions of kids watching our @BBL games on the 26th
January, and they’ll see us taking a knee against racism, and promoting
inclusion for all. Take note.″
Christian was publicly endorsed by Usman Khawaja, the first
Muslim to play Test cricket for Australia, who said the PM’s response was
“petty”.
In contrast to Australia Day, one day 26th January
we have:
National Close the Gap Day 18 MARCH 2021, or the 3rd Thursday
in March each year.
Harmony Day is celebrated annually on 21 March in Australia.
Harmony Day began in 1999, coinciding with the United Nations International Day
for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. The day was introduced by the
Howard Government to re-centralise a singular and unifying notion of
Australian-ness within multicultural policy.
National Sorry Day, or the National Day of Healing, is an
annual event that has been held in Australia on 26 May since 1998.
National Reconciliation Week 2020: 27 May – 3 June
Thank you for your support of and participation in National
Reconciliation Week 2020
Reconciliation is a journey for all Australians – as
individuals, families, communities, organisations and importantly as a nation.
At the heart of this journey are relationships between the broader Australian
community and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Mabo Day occurs annually on 3 June. It commemorates Eddie
Koiki Mabo (c. 29 June 1936–21 January 1992),[1][2] a Torres Strait Islander
whose campaign for Indigenous land rights led to a landmark decision of the
High Court of Australia that, on 3 June 1992, overturned the legal fiction of
terra nullius that had characterised Australian law with regards to land and
title. Wikipedia.
National NAIDOC Week 2021. The National NAIDOC Committee has
announced NAIDOC Week celebrations will be held from 4-11 July 2021.
© Commonwealth of Australia, excluding content supplied by
third parties
National Aboriginal Childrens Day 4th August.
“National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children’s
Day (Children’s Day) is our national day dedicated to celebrating our children”.
Website is plastered with logos from Australian Government,
National Indigenous Australians Agency, ABC and SBS as “Our Supporters”
On 9 August, UN Women joins indigenous peoples around the
world to commemorate the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples.
INDIGENOUS LITERACY WEEK Monday 30 Aug - Saturday 4
September, 2021 In 2021, we are extending this incredible celebration to a full
week of events and activities with two key celebrations - the first on
Indigenous Literacy Day on Wednesday 1 September and a gala event on Saturday 4
September.
When you go to the website you get:
“Acknowledgement to Country
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation acknowledges First Nations
peoples and recognises their continuous connection to Country, community and
culture. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging, and honour
the sharing of traditional stories passed down through generations.”
https://www.indigenousliteracyfoundation.org.au/indigenous-literacy-day
According to their financial report they had an income of
nearly $3.6M.
Their listed partners include Australia Post.
Ad lib on how Conservatives have failed to leverage our
institutions.
While all of this handwringing and chest clutching is going
on about Australia Day, while we are taking a knee at the cricket and being
called racists for daring to go to the Sydney test the extreme dysfunction
within outback Aboriginal communities continues.
Our concern should be focussed on the needs of Australian
children that are living in these remote communities that are voiceless whilst
activists are focused not on their welfare but on sewing cross cultural warfare
against the Australian citizen.
We have lawless places where domestic violence, child sexual
abuse and other social problems run rampant whilst our political class and
institutions talk about a “Voice to Parliament” and “Invasion Day” or “Stolen Generations” as
some sort of smokescreen.
Not only that organisations like the Indigenous Literacy
Foundation hold annual gala balls where the wealthy corporate donors all rub
shoulders, sipping champagne and congratulating each other on how pure they
are, how much good they are doing. It’s sick, it’s disgusting and it’s
perverted.
[Adlib
Not my value system to drink champagne
To call anyone that wants to keep the date of Australia Day
the same, or go to the cricket a racist. It’s sick.
Being a racist is not the worst thing you can be in
Australia, the worst thing you can be is fraud, and to use racial warfare to
disguise the real disadvantage and sexual abuse in Aboriginal Australia whilst
enjoying an inner city lifestyle where you can condescend on the tax payers
that are funding that lifestyle. It’s a sick perverted joke and we are not
going to participate anymore.]
Okay so that’s Australia Day, that’s Cricket Australia, that’s the cultural cringe we have to overcome in a forthright manner. We have to do better for Aboriginal Citizens. There are some massive problems with Native Title, and they might not be what you think they are but I am still reading on that, it’s a very complex area, but I will have more to say on that in the future. Maybe we take a look at that on Mabo Day?
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