On June 24th, 2023 Prof. Augusto Zimmermann and myself published the following article in The Spectator Australia, “Food Security and Property Rights Under Threat in Western Australia”. A shorter version was published in the Epoch Times as “Is Western Australia’s Heritage Law Going to Thwart Food Production”.

Below is the prepublication draft of the Spectator article. Go to The Spectator for the published version.

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The Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act (ACH) comes into effect on the 1st July 2023 in Western Australia (WA). Ostensibly it is to protect aboriginal cultural sites across Western Australia. And yet, there is a real concern that this legislation will generate “the deluge of read tape and the suffocation of private property rights which this act facilitates”.[1] Pastoralists and Graziers Association WA president Tony Seabrook, who believes that this is a “very poorly written…

By Tim Graham ~

National “Public” Radio often airs very one-sided political advertising instead of news. This is especially true on “systemic racism.”

On Weekend Edition Sunday, NPR aired a six-and-a-half minute jeremiad from “race and identity” correspondent Sandhya Dirks on how white people were exploiting Asian plaintiffs to push a fake discrimination story on college admissions before a “far-right Supreme Court.”  Nowhere in those 390 seconds was there a dissent from that view.

Anchor Ayesha Rascoe explained they were exposing “how the fight to end affirmative action was orchestrated. Some scholars and activists say it was consciously pitting Asian Americans against other communities of color to bring about the end of the policy.” Leftist scholars and activists, like University of Maryland professor OiYan Poon, who orchestrated this story.

The story starts with conservative organizer Ed Blum, who is quoted saying “I needed Asian plaintiffs” to challenge racial quotas. OiYan…