Condemnation of Vandalism on Captain Cook Statue in Randwick

Press Release – Western Heritage Australia Date: 25th January 2025 Contact: [email protected] Western Heritage Australia is deeply disturbed and saddened by the recent act of vandalism against the historic Captain Cook statue located in Randwick, Sydney. Early in the morning of the 24th January 2025, the statue was disgracefully desecrated with red paint and had […]

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The Charters that gave Australians Liberty!

Australians largely take their freedoms for granted, not realising the importance of the unbroken chain back to the English common law, the key agreements, and the system of governance which underpin that liberty. How fragile are those freedoms? It is not inconceivable that they could disappear in a generation if the cultural memory is lost, supplanted by disruptive ideologies or loss of pride in our Western inheritance.

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The Fog of Woke

The purpose of this short vignette is to introduce you to some of the jargon of Critical Social Justice. The difficulty in understanding someone versed in Critical Theory is that the words used are often identical to the commonly used words, but with completely different meanings and obscured subtext.

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It needn’t be Grimm. Western Folklore in Australia

In 1854, the eminent folklorist Joseph Jacobs was born in Sydney, New South Wales, though his working life was spent abroad – predominantly in England and the U.S.A. He wished that English speaking children could read tales which had emerged from the folklore of the British Isles, rather than those of the continent made popular by Charles Perrault in the 17th century, and the Grimm Brothers in the first half of the 19th century. Jacobs lamented that Perrault’s genius displayed in Cinderella and Puss in Boots had ousted the English classics of Catskin and Childe Rowland. Likewise, Tom-Tit-Tot had given way to Grimm’s Rumpelstiltschen and The Three Sillies to Hänsel and Gretel.

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