Mabo Revisited

This book is a penetrating and enlightening analysis of the High Court, Mabo No. 2 decision. It is the only scholarly work written about colonial settler/Aboriginal contact with an honest and forthright approach to the source material. The creation of a hereditary native title over land within mainland Australia will, in time, become an unreasonable burden and a substantial interference with the land use of the dominate landholder. The earlier reviews were flawed because the vast majority of commentators have been ill-informed intellectuals or one-dimensional ideologues trying to toe the Indigenous Industry's code of political correctness. The Black Armband school has allowed political partisanship to override honest research and sound conclusions. They approach the historiography of Australian Colonial Settler Studies with a fixed ideological axiom of resistance to invasion. Their articles and publications encourage unity of thought in support of this axiom by stressing and interpreting the historical sources and material in a tendentious and selective manner. An ill-disciplined and prodigal Indigenous industry of tax-funded agitators, propagandists, and cultural cringing white Jackey Jackeys has, for fifty years, levelled a continuous barrage of slanders and base calumnies against the settlement of Australia by white pioneers and explorers, ignoring the first-world standard of living now enjoyed. Australian taxpayer's funds are bleeding out because of political cowardice in the face of the haemorrhage. Paul Dillon is a Sunshine Coast based author ofFrederick Walker Commandant of the Native Police, Connor Court Publishing, Brisbane 2018;The Murder of John Francis Dowling and the Massacre of 300 Aborigines, Connor Court Publishing, Brisbane 2019;Inside the Killing Fields Hornet Bank, Cullin-la-Ringo & The Maria Wreck, Connor Court Publishing, Brisbane 2020;Queensland Native Police, The First Twenty Years, 2020;The Irvinebank Massacre, Connor Court Publishing, Brisbane 2021;Fraser Island Massacre Vrai ou Faux, Connor Court Publishing, Brisbane 2022;Bêche-de-mer and the Binghis, 2022;The History of Bêche-de-mer Fishing in Queensland Waters and Adjacent Islands, Connor Court Publishing, Brisbane 2023;Dispela Kantri Bilong Mi, Nau! Queensland Annexes New Guinea, 2023; andKanaka Boats is A-Comin' Pacific Island Labourers in Queensland, 2023;Queensland's contribution to the development of British New Guinea, Connor Court Publishing, Brisbane 2023;The Queensland Native Police The Final Years, 2024.South Sea Islanders in Queensland, Connor Court Publishing, Brisbane 2024.He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Australian National University. Paul joined the Commonwealth Public Service in 1965. On 23 May 1986, he was called to the Bar of New South Wales and practised as a barrister in the Criminal Division of the superior courts of Queensland as counsel for the defence.