We are all racists now. Noel Person tells us so. The “hard bigotry” of Quadrant conservatism has merged with the “soft bigotry” of the ABC. The two have met in “the common ground of mutual racism” and created wall-to-wall, surround-sound White Man noise.

The national broadcaster, according to Pearson, is “a spittoon’s worth of perverse people willing the wretched to fail”. Yet it was the ABC’s Australian Story program in 2002 that first provided a platform for Noel Pearson and his brother Gerhardt to unveil their Cape York project. Self-regulating