Ken Wyatt's ‘shocking response’ about Indigenous history: Bolt

Sky News host Andrew Bolt says Indigenous Affairs Minister Ken Wyatt, on Thursday, delivered a “response that makes me worry about the future of this country”.

[@paulwhitehead1190]

Andrew Bolt is a legend. One of the only journalists I believe.

[@paulworthington8666]

Andrew, keep up the good work in defence of truth and respect reality. Thank you.

[@thaipixie]

The left are not interested in truth... or are completely ignorant....

[@wyattfamily8997]

Both I suspect.

[@ChumpyChicken2]

Wyatt Family no the left are the ones causing all the trouble atm. Name one this the right has done in the last 2 years

[@DrCorvid]

conformist class is easily led to one side or the other.

[@lynettekomidar]

@moosak100 I agree. And, so nasty. I have lived with aboriginals for 40 years, Bold is a Dolt

[@Aseutester]

And arrogantly certain, which is a dangerous combo!

[@Ed_Downunder]

I was born in England and became an Australian citizen before the Vietnam War. My whole working life has paid tax into the ATO and no other country. My children, grand children and now great grand child were born in Australia. I identify as Australian, not English Australian - just Australian. The race debate in Australia is destructive and will white ant Australian social structure. The aboriginal activists who pursue sovereignty and separatism are like a parasite living off a host. When the ABC and prominent politicians join in and promote a fraud, it is down to individuals to call it out. How quick would ABC call out a fraud if it did not suit their political agenda, ABC independent? I think not.

[@kyleklukas4808]

Aboriginals like parasites . OK ...not like Welsh or Scottish hey ...anything not white is not right hey ..

[@karenvecsei4217]

QAnon

[@karenvecsei4217]

I only embraced the Black Aboriginal Lore but come under the White Law of Australia.

[@hypnopompicstate9910]

Has any of this stuff been represented in any traditional aboriginal art?

[@Indonesiansurftravel]

Great minds think a like i just made a similar comment in relpy to someone above, obviously if these things were true they would have recorded these things in cave/rock art, but they didn't because it never happened, they even recorded foreign boats in rock art i think Indonesian fisherman they traded with before we came here.(they traded rights to fish for sea cucumber)

[@ChumpyChicken2]

Elisabeth Taylor Abo painting! Haha a Kindergarten child could paint dots. Lol!

[@dubleffler9451]

www.researchgate.net/figure/Plants-depicted-in-Kimberley-rock-art-A-Irregular-Infill-Animal-Period-style-tuber-with_fig9_312412099

[@dubleffler9451]

took me 2 mins on google.

[@annawild7117]

Dot paintings didnt exist before white man came.

[@AVMamfortas]

A government Minister has never heard of a Greek or Italian being asked to prove his ethnicity. Has he never heard of the Immigration Department???

[@Mrbobinge]

Yeah, always knew there was something fishy about showing passports.

[@magiatrebonis1354]

Victimising the indigenous community is a profitable industry and the people who do it are the "indigenous" leaders/ elders themselves

[@nicholascleland9676]

Yes you are right. The white politicians acting as the middle man. That's where the millions are going because it ain't being spent in any of the communities that it's ment for. Go and have a look for yourself.

[@wavelymorta2751]

* @magiatrebonis1354 Which are taught these idealoguges by whom? The same people that think Infinite Capital on a Finite Planet is Viable/Sustainable (Ppfft dumbass's)

[@gregwaghorn8496]

They cannot live in a world, where they don't have to hunt and gather. Now they hunt and gather what there neighbours have. There genetics haven't developed for a civilised culture. Unless they have a European parent

[@rodhowellnetwork28]

The Labour socialist Government of Australia, I believe deliberately creates this current culture where it becomes totally acceptable to become a victim. Labour then rides in on it's big white steed and it's bottomless cheque book and 'saves' us all, particularly disavantaged minorities who the rest of us all lack empathy for. It's narcissism disguised as altruism. And it's about power, it's about control. And they do not like to be called to account.

[@slimmorden5771]

A dream that never came true--turning lead into gold. A dream come true--turning fiction into history.

[@andrewjohnston4811]

"He who controls the past controls the future, He who controls the present controls the past" - George Orwell.

[@andrewjohnston4811]

@Urayis wish l only a valid statement in the pre neolithic stone age

[@toddhellyar4167]

@@andrewjohnston4811 Orangeman bad

[@111Aardvark]

Do a DNA test and shut him up forever …

[@bobhawke7373]

Buddy Rojek It’s funny you say that. I was watching an old doco from the 60’s recently. The documentary showed white journalists going and spending a few days with primitive aboriginal tribes in the NT. The comment section was full of a bunch of Sri Lankan’s saying stuff similar to “wow they look just like us Tamils”. There was so many Sri Lankan’s in the comments that I can only assume that something about aboriginal/Tamil identity similarities must had been trending in Sri Lanka at the time to bring them all to that particular video to compare aboriginals to themselves.

[@DrCorvid]

Dravidian?

[@papamegan8504]

He needs to go for a head test completely mental lol

[@waynebow-gu7wr]

@@DrCorvidIf you get into the theory that the Tartarian's civilization stretched across the whole planet.... you will understand ! Apparently one old Aboriginal language had it's roots in Bolgaria !

[@Sandwich13455]

@@waynebow-gu7wr where and what is bolgaria?

[@mattbutler458]

Andrew Bolt... Thank You for being one of the very few who has the courage to push back against the villification of whites!

[@pat8593]

best news online.

[@IRISHSALTMINER61]

David Are you saying he’s no right though?

[@ChumpyChicken2]

Look at all the google bots butt hurt about the truth Bolt is saying misinformed Marxist.

[@toddhellyar4167]

@David Islam are right about women. It's ok to be white

[@joycecapewell3736]

Stop spouting colonial whitewashed hogwash - the vilification of blacks has been ongoing for 230 years on their stolen land - beginning by a proven white convict colony.

[@stevecox7075]

I once taught a subject in the Koori section of RMIT, in Melbourne, which was set up especially for urban Australian indigenous students. One of the students turned out to be an American Indian; and another was found to be Hungarian. When the truth was discovered, I was told, "Well, it's what they feel in their hearts that matters".

[@stephenaustin142]

Do you remember when those two Afganistan refugees turned up illegally and claimed to be Aboriginal so they couldn't be deported , it went to the High Court and they won . If they're abo then no one is .🤔

[@bradleyfield3944]

The reason we dont ask Italians, Greeks, and Jewish people to prove their culture or ethnicity is because tax payers don't pay any of them a cent in identity payments.

[@john8443]

We give money to Israel. Not Greece or Italy

[@evieagoston-pearce3838]

That's what Andrew pointed out.

[@JERedman]

Bitter Harvest is a comprehensive appraisal of Bruce Pascoe’s book Dark Emu. Pascoe postulates that, rather than being a nomadic hunter-gatherer society, Australian Aborigines were actually sedentary agriculturalists with ‘skills superior to those of the white colonisers who took their land and despoiled it’. Dark Emu has enjoyed extraordinary public and critical acclaim, winning Premier’s literary awards in New South Wales and named Book of the Year. Professor Marcia Langton called it ‘the most important book on Australia’. Its ideas have already been taken up in school texts and the ABC is producing a documentary series about it. But nothing in Dark Emu justifies its success. Bitter Harvest is a forensic but highly readable examination which reveals that Bruce Pascoe omits, distorts or mischaracterises important information to such an extent that, as purported history, Dark Emu is worthless. Even worse, it promotes a divisive, victim-based agenda that pits one Australian against another

[@MrNanonen]

Keep up the good journalism Bolt.

[@glennblack6093]

There was a famous case in Canada of Grey Owl, who claimed to be a Canadian Indian (Ojibway) for many decades, who we eventually learned was really Archibald Stanfeld Belaney, the son of an aristocrat in Hastings England, who emigrated to Canada in 1906.

[@keithad6485]

I remember as a teen in the early 1970s, reading in Aussie newspapers that the Canadian Ojibwe people reclaimed Grey Owl as one of their own due to his far sighted environmental views and actions.

[@mickeyjmoons]

Yes, they had glass cities, flying cars, and were on the verge of mastering nuclear fusion. What makes it even more noteworthy is that all this was acheived without the wheel or a written language.

[@kimbo99]

Or Metals. They never progressed thru the copper age bronze age or an iron age like most other people. They remained locked into Paleolithic Stone Age for 65,000 years and were rescued by Colonialism delivering civilisation

[@tezzag6827]

I think I will write a book that says that white Europeans first settled in Australia 100000 years ago but the aboriginals killed them all off around 60000 years ago and claimed Australia for themselves. Makes as much sense as the book Dark Emu

[@nativealien6215]

This has GOT to get a million views......bluddy hell!!!.....what is going on?

[@martyollier7536]

youtube algorithm at it's best - bury the truth beneath cat videos.

[@dubleffler9451]

Free Publicity!

[@lewtscott3346]

Plenty of politicians where recently asked about their dual citizenship too.

[@jhart7304]

Dual citizenship to where?

[@lewtscott3346]

J Hart A lot of them were dual citizens having moved to Australia from New Zealand (and to quote Rob Muldoon, thereby raising the average IQ of both countries).

[@theeffectivecoach]

But no called it racist when these people of influence were asked if they were and why they didn’t disclose it. Is Mr Pascoe not influencing generations with his “stories”. Also, are stories facts?

[@skipd9164]

He must be a relative of US Presidential candidate elizabeth warren who claims to be native American

[@sweetvuvuzela4634]

They also had road trains to pull the product to Woolworths. They had swimming pools.

[@GrooberNedJardine]

They used to have a word once upon a time for people like Bruce Pascoe , that word was Charleton .

[@geralddyer8934]

Wow how did he become a minister in the Government ???

[@hughbatchelor8599]

Wyatt is pathetic! What he should have said is: In my capacity as minister I will investigate and verify these serious allegations and halt any further promotion of the books or making of the TV series by the ABC until the truth is reaffirmed. With people like this in power it is no wonder the world is going insane.

[@davidhastings7714]

So thats what they mean by "dreamtime"!

[@dabigisland1]

Thanks Sky News Australia for some Truth and Sanity in this crazy world

[@mackf7275]

The perpetuation of a victim culture is so incredibly destructive to any race.

[@noelasandstrom9761]

Yes, eventually victimhood destroys the person from the inside out.

[@aaronkelly2414]

Keep up the good work Andrew

[@shanetodd5953]

The stories passed down by my elders say nothing of the sort. There is no mention of my family or other North American First Nations families living in houses and penning livestock. We were a people of the land, not master Carpenters and farmers.

[@traceymoran8344]

The grievance industry has been going on across the Tasman in NZ for years. The best gravy train you can find. Call yourself a Maori and watch the benefits roll in. In the mean time those that are actually Aboriginal that need help in the communities miss out. It’s time for testing of blood line before you can claim anything. Pascoe needs to be prosecuted for misrepresentation. Remove Wyatt next election.

[@nunya3251]

Didn’t Moaris steal their land of another mob. Fairly sure they invaded the South and wiped the inhabitants out.

[@TheMajorCatastrophe]

Ken Wyatt never says any of writings contain facts.

[@glennedwards1449]

Mate we need people like you in the UK

[@gindaburra]

USA has Elizabeth Pocahontas. We have our Platypascoes.

[@johnianson4249]

The realy scary thing here is that this Wyatt bloke is a government minister in our Government

[@robertaus8420]

In the book it explains how they invented the tractor

[@petermoygannon698]

they only made the wheel

[@matthewfarrell317]

Actually, this is even easier to disprove than most people think. IF they had farming, then show animals and/or plants that have been domesticated. When you farm and domesticate animals and plants it fundamentally changes them. They stick out like a sore thumb. Example, wild strawberries vs farmed etc.

[@helenlesley5456]

They were here for thousands of years and never even invented the wheel… suck that one up Wyat … what a fluffy old dill he is!

[@matthewfarrell317]

@@helenlesley5456 worse, Europeans gave them the wheel and they still couldn't use it

[@martyollier7536]

I wonder if the percentage of people claiming to have aborigine heritage has gone up or down with the rise of identity politics? I'm gonna say it's gone up, way up....

[@gracecollins8415]

+ Marty Ollier Double from 400,000 to 800,000, according to the last census.

[@peterlostroh8709]

DNA testing should settle the truth. I'm sure that he won't hesitate in showing the required results.

[@wildtony79]

Pocahontas mk2

[@brucesturgeon4801]

Thank god for Bolt . I wonder what that minister has been smoking, grass?

[@KIA-MIA-POW]

Wyatt is proving himself and the government he represents to be very foolish and without either the integrity or honesty to call Pascoe out for what he is.

[@patscott6365]

Aahh! "The Myth of Aboriginal Exceptionalism. 80,000 years of continuous occupation and all they achieved was a bendy stick."

[@d00mg1rl]

I got a friend who is part Aboriginal/Maori. He has tanned skin and dark hair. He doesn't use it to his advantage, he doesn't claim special treatment or privileges or government hand outs. He works hard for everything he has but his sister does. She milks it for all its worth. She is light skinned and Blonde. When they don't look Aboriginal, you do question it.

[@bossdog1480]

Remember that guy a few years ago, got into politics or something promoting Aboriginality. Turns out he was the son of an Indian sailor. lol

[@gerardvirgona5541]

All I can say is what is going on in our country?

[@jomac2046]

Anybody can download Thomas Mitchell's 1848 journal, reading it's plain to see Pascoe to be kind has embellished the truth.

[@johnvandermeulen7417]

Hey, Ken never let the truth get in the way of a good story. Shame on you Ken.

[@Fendy1]

I come across a few people in my work life who, if they decide something _(which I disagree with by the way)_ , they cannot give reasons. Or if they do try and give a reason, the reason(s) just don't hold water. So, perhaps truth and reason really is dead in Australia!

[@cliffwestnidge6604]

The reason some people claim to be Aboriginal is because there is a great financial reward in it, not so if you are one of the other ethnic groups the minister mentioned

[@SammyLoock]

So this has no bearing whatsoever on anyone who's an authentic aboriginal.

[@rosssmithers2906]

40 years ago I worked with a bloke who had immigrated to Australia from Malta, the place of his ethnicity, he registered as Aboriginal. In the US in one state at least as there may be many, The native Indians are paid an allowance like a dole payment. If they are half (1/2) Indian they get half the dole, if a quarter they get a quarter payment. Less than a quarter Indian they get nothing. I'm not suggesting that we follow suit, but the need may arise to have DNA testing and if positive the government could pay for the test, if not positive they pay.

[@jbsnyder1736]

Amazing that the exact same nonsense is happening in Europe and the USA!

[@helenlesley5456]

Yes like Elizabeth Warren who said she was from American Indian background but got called out…? She allegedly also used the race card for privileges

[@sarahreid48]

AT LAST A REAL REPORT - THANK YOU

[@SammyLoock]

Everything that conforms to our thinking is 'real'.

[@brettchristoffel6391]

Aboriginal art does not have any record of such claims. The thing that is interesting is that the further away in time you get from something the more outlandish the claims that can be made. Take holocaust deniers for example. If it was real it would have all come out back in the 70s, not to mention everything that flowed out of the Edde Mabo case. I thought cultural appropriation was a big taboo. Quickest way to clear up the whole issue of his ancestry would be a DNA test.

[@gordonwells1626]

This story is symptomatic of what is happening in Australia and around the world….living by lies.

[@jayw2586]

Santa really needs to feed himself to one of your very own iconic crocodiles.........🐊

[@sayit462]

Cut them of from Centrelink .Free loaders.

[@birgittabirgersdatter8082]

With what animals did those aboriginal farmers use to plough their fields? No where has agriculture happened without animal husbandry. Why have no agricultural equipment ever shown up?

[@alsmith9853]

The same animals Bruce says they built the pens for😂

[@atillasevis9126]

I'd rather have a honest heart that's hard.. than a dishonest soft heart.. #how does your heart weigh on you AUSTRALIA ??

[@rogergibbs2937]

Make the false claim about your ancestry and you get all the freebees

[@bigjimWA77]

The guilt industry par excellance...

[@elizabethjones5041]

Three little words missing from Pascoes claims! """In his opinion"""

[@ianbalogh8492]

Ken Wyatt should tell us all his ancestry not just 1/16 of it.

[@chloeew4627]

Token black fella ,token politician,paid to look foolish, Pascoe and Wyatt . This is amazing and frightening.....

[@carausiuscaesar5672]

That is one fair skinned aboriginal.

[@rageonyx]

Classify it as "fiction" and move on.

[@reasonableguy9090]

While I am no fan of the Marxist anti-western sentiment being pushed currently, I must speak up when it is warranted... When I lived back in Perth, I had a fair bit to do with Sen Ken Wyatt’s office, and spoke with him on a few occasions. I can tell you he is an honourable man, who cares about his country, his family and Aboriginal people. I cannot comment on this particular book, but Ken is a good bloke.

[@marynadononeill]

Wyatt doesn't look like he believes what he's saying himself!

[@ellfra2]

This and the appointment of Langton demonstrates that Wyatt is not fit for his ministerial appointment.

[@waynebow-gu7wr]

I might have Tasmanian Aboriginal blood in me. And if I checked my family tree, I could probably get a free house out of it ! Trouble is, I'm to bloody lazy to check my family tree..... ' WHICH PROVES I'M ABO ' ( true story )

[@elizabethdacosta5601]

This is truly unbelievable! Is there no uproar from University Professors or elementary and high school teachers? It is frightening that it is not being put right. As a British man recently said, “Great cultures don’t suddenly die overnight, they slowly inch toward death by allowing their principles (honesty) and their histories and their freedoms to be subverted.” Mr. Bolt, you have done their work for them, and still they allow him to keep his prize, educators stay silent, and leaders look the other way. But they all know the truth now, so they are all looking each other in the eyes and PRETENDING together that it isn’t so. What does that do to a person’s soul?

[@daniellebcooper7160]

Obviously Barry Hunphries based his character Les Patterson on Ken Wyatt, he looks half tanked. God help us if this is what our goverment officials are like.

[@repentorperish1405]

"woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!" - Isaiah 5:20.

[@repentorperish1405]

@Urayis wish l : don't be fooled, the shadow of the wrath of almighty God's judgement on this world is already descending on it.

[@jricho2261]

Probably and thought don’t equate to facts

[@fredriko.zachrisson9711]

What happened with this? Are there any updates?

[@netwarrior1000]

Incredible indeed. Sadly, we lost the plot though long ago when we accepted people less indigenous than I am Scottish (which is not much) to call themselves indigenous, instead of simply of indigenous descent. Not to diminish how badly indigenous peoples have been treated in the past mind you, but the ability to call oneself indigenous with very little ancestry, let alone evidence, has become ridiculous and, in fact, trivialises it. It would be hypocritical of me to call myself a Scot with the little ancestry I have, yet someone with as much or less indigenous ancestry can call themselves indigenous? Poppycock.....

[@allankingsbury5657]

Ken Wyatt obviously lives in Dreamtime.

[@Harold_Flite]

He is black...he is a black man....the albino type...honest.

[@umberella01]

White man Bolt is very concerned that aboriginal peoples had more sophistication than roaming hunterers

[@angelomia6691]

Lies are become truth in our dystopian world...the dark days of the evil

[@anthonywhelan4660]

Even Manning Clark, Australia's Marxist leaning history author, never knew these 'facts' or skipped over them.

[@anthonywhelan4660]

@Brett Mitchell I didn't know that. Thanks. I'll have to refresh my memory of his works.

[@davidmaddison2628]

Inventing history does nothing to help the Aboriginal cause.

[@ionichi]

"We wuz kangs!"

[@lat-roc9733]

Universities can challenge this. Primary & Secondary schooling is not the place for dubious learning

[@DavidBrowne-wx7cm]

Look not only did Mr Pascoe get a $10,000 prize for a book that was not fact checked, he got $30, 000 for being an indigenous writer . There are a number of issues here, one, Mr Pascoe committed fraud on the NSW government for claiming to be something he isn't. This goes a little further than what Mr Wyatt says as there is money involved ie taxpayers money. Elizabeth Warren claimed she was a part of the Cherokee Nation. She was given tenure at a University based on that claim. DNA testing showed there was no native ancestry. Perhaps Mr Pascoe could offer to do a DNA test. Two, there may have been other indigenous writers on the short list who may, through known ancestry, been better recipients than Mr Pascoe. Now I do not care whether Mr Pascoe believes what he is saying or claiming is true. Mr Wyatt takes it for granted because Mr Pascoe has told him that is the case. I am sorry Mr Wyatt but in the real world that is not how things happen and boy it is about time things happened.

[@markfurnell6748]

The Morrison government is a MASSIVE disappointment to me.....as are all governments!

[@briankillen8067]

Mate, your indigenous are way behind our lot over the ditch.... I met a Maori teacher 30 years ago who was teaching in Social Studies that Maori had the printing press before Cook arrived and mapped New Zealand.

[@annviolet4727]

The English, Irish, Indian ancestral DNA in Mr. Wyatt must all be feeling a little bit unwanted.😢😢😢

[@mimmadelorenzis8561]

This book is more of a fairy tale than a history book

[@kimbo99]

In other places people discovered metals. THAT was a cultural change. Copper age, bronze age iron age. The Indigens never boosted their culture here by metallurgy. So they remained Paleolithic for 65, 000 years. What they did was fail to prosper sufficiently, so .they never graduated to metallurgy they remained paleolithic Stone Age. Essentially a failure. And would have remained in a state of “suspended evolution” had it not been for rescue by colonialism.

[@bullyoz1973]

WOW. First time of heard of civilised Indigenous societies.

[@janetsaggus7408]

These aborigines were killing each other when others arrived ... no one else was harming them .😮

[@paulhwbooth]

I'm glad the trains have come back in the background.

[@whatonearth717]

Wyatt did nothing for his people when he was in Parliament. Anything this man does is in his self interest. He has tainted the idea of 'The Voice' because of the very nature of him being involved.

[@adamrea2530]

Truth telling is nothing but the rewriting of Australian history.

[@garyharvey3545]

We constantly question Aboriginal ethnicity because of frauds like Pascoe. There are any number of people who claim fraudulent ethnicity for social and monetary gain.

[@twalgoolan4249]

Bolt is still seething. Wyatt will do for a target for the time being.

[@lynettekomidar]

I lived next door to Bobbie Sykes. She grew up in Townsville and did in fact identify as aboriginal. She was discriminated against growing up. Oh boy did she have some tales to tell.

[@Hannaford_Photography]

...........and the truth will set us free!!!

[@christopheratkins780]

Pascoe's next book "Dark Bullshit" outline how aboriginals invented motorbikes and formed the first outlaw bikie gangs to counter the brutal treatment from the red coates.

[@fragglevooper]

The Liberal government are lost. We need a party for Australians.