2 July 2020
So Buildings Are Racist Too, Now
Even though Victoria’s goldrush city of Ballarat is purported to be the state’s largest inland city, it is safe to say that it has more than its fair share of statues and monuments which honour heroes, icons, royalty, poets and goldfield pioneers. So abundant are they, in fact, that the Ballarat Information Centre has thought it prudent to compile an
13 June 2020
The Problem With ‘Topple The Racists’
Last weekend, a mob tied a rope to a statue of a 17th century Bristol merchant, philanthropist and slave trader called Edward Colston, pulled it off its pedestal, dragged it through the streets and then threw in the river. In London, two bronzes of Winston Churchill were defaced, one of them daubed with the words ‘racist’. In Leeds, a statue
12 June 2020
Why We Erect Statues – And Should Keep Them There
Amid a world that seems hell-bent on tearing down statues in a cathartic frenzy, it is worth sparing a moment to reflect on why we erected those statues in the first place. While the left thinks that a monument’s primary purpose is to glorify great dead white men, the reality is that they were meant to be symbols of hope
28 June 2019
Wentworth Must Stand
At the University of Sydney we can see what happens when students are no longer taught our history. When the halls of higher learning focus more on identity politics and postmodernist ideas of power structures instead of historical context and nuance. When the suggestion of teaching Western Civilization or a course on the great books is met with accusations of
