The Aboriginal Question: Australian Racial Politics of Indigenous Recognition and Anglo De-recognition - Paperback

by Frank K. Salter (Author)

In this new set of essays, Frank Salter dissects indigenous claims using research on ethnicity and nationalism and biological information about race differences. The same multicultural elites promoting the subordination and replacement of the historic Anglo nation also encourage the break-up of Australia by an emerging Aboriginal irredentist movement. The multicultural establishment supports extreme indigenous demands - for continental-scale land claims, permanent tax-payer subsidies, subservience to the United Nations and alteration of the Constitution to afford privileged recognition to indigenous peoples. Governments on both sides of politics have appointed inquiries ethnically biased against mainstream Australia. The biological causes of Aboriginal disability are studiously ignored to justify affirmative discrimination and ramp-up white guilt. Salter argues that indigenous status as first peoples should be recognised in a manner compatible with the dignity of Anglo Australia as the nation that forged the nation and the Commonwealth.

Author Biography

Frank Salter is a graduate of Sydney and Griffith universities, Australia. He researched political ethology with the Max Planck Society in Andechs, Germany, from 1991 to 2011, and has lectured on ethnicity, nationalism and other social science subjects in the U.S. and several European countries. Much of his research on ethnicity has examined the social impacts of diversity and their causes, for example in his edited volume Welfare, Ethnicity and Altruism: New Findings and Evolutionary Theory (Frank Cass). Together with geneticist Henry Harpending he provided the first estimate of ethnic kinship, finding it to be higher than previously assumed. His book, On Genetic Interests: Family, Ethnicity, and Humanity in an Age of Mass Migration (Transaction), explored the politics and morality of ethnic solidarity from a neo-Darwinian perspective. Now based in Sydney, Australia, he consults on academic, political and management issues.