Category: Australia
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The Myths of Indigenous History
24 January 2025. “John speaks with Dr. Nigel Biggar and Dr. Stephen Chavura to explore the complexities of history, challenging one-sided narratives of colonisation and conflict. Their discussion sheds light on the nuanced relationships between settlers and Indigenous peoples, revealing both moments of mutual respect and undeniable tragedy. The discussion emphasises an understanding of history…
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Grievance politics fuels new era of fake history
17 December 2024. Nigel for The Australian. Throughout the English-speaking world elites are falling over them- selves to believe the very worst of their own countries. Let’s consider Canada. In May 2021 an Indian band in Kamloops, British Columbia claimed ground- penetrating radar had discovered “soil disturbances” that evidenced unmarked graves containing the remains of…
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Why the history war matters
20 October 2024. Nigel Biggar says the controversy over empire is not really a controversy about history at all. It is about the present, not the past. In this conversation with Nick Cater, Professor Biggar talks about the reaction to his book, “Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning”, the experience of being cancelled, Israel’s war for survival…
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Democracy is crowning glory of monarchy
26 October 2024. By Nigel Biggar for The Australian. Republicans object to Australia’s hereditary monarchy, partly because it’s foreign and partly because it’s a medieval absurdity stranded in a modern, democratic age. If that were so—and if I were Australian—I’d object, too. But it’s not true. While Australia has long been an independent state, and…
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Intellectual rearmament
23 October 2024. By Nick Carter for Reality Bites by Nick Carter. The British theologian who gave us the ammunition to defeat the Aboriginal Voice There is no such thing as an easy win in politics. It is wrong to assume from the margin of last year’s Aboriginal Voice referendum that the result was a…
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Phillip’s British Intrusion
19 October 2024. By Nigel Biggar for The Australian. The version below was originally given on 14 October 2024 as an address to St Mary-le-Bow Church, London, on the occasion of the birth of Admiral Arthur Phillip. I Did Admiral Arthur Phillip spearhead the invasion of Aboriginal Australia? While an annual commemoration of his birth…
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A nation divided cannot stand
9 November 2023. Nigel makes a guest appearance on ADH TV’s Fred Pawle Show. ‘A nation divided cannot stand: Some parts of London look more like central Asia than Britain. Enoch Powell envisaged this, and warned that it would lead to instability and violence. Special guests: Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, Professor Nigel Biggar and Avi Yemini.…
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How the British ended slavery
01 August 2023. “In many former European colonies, August 1 is Emancipation Day, celebrating the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire almost two centuries ago. And while our postmodern sensibilities drive our cultural institutions to fixate on the offence of the latter fact, the sin of slavery (an offence shared across almost every culture…
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Voice to Parliament
28 March 2023. Nigel joins Fred Pawle of Australian Digital Holdings (ADH). From the ADH website: ‘The proposed Voice to Parliament is an admission that western civilisation cannot solve the problem of indigenous deprivation. But history tells us otherwise.’