Does the Left really want a race war? Gerard Henderson on another taxpayer-funded attempt to excite racial tensions by grotesquely caricaturing Australia's past: [John] Pilger's latest documentary, Utopia, is produced by Dartmouth Films in association with the taxpayer-subsidised SBS TV Australia... It has just had showings at the taxpayer-subsidised Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney.... So stand by for a dose of alienation coming to an art-house theatre near you, followed by a release on SBS... Utopia contains close to two hours of unremitting propaganda... Early in the film, Australian journalist Jeff McMullen (who presented Difference of Opinion on ABC TV, the predecessor of Q&A) makes a statement which frames Pilger's documentary. According to McMullen, the interaction between the European settlers and the first peoples over two centuries can be explained as follows: "We rounded people up into concentration camps; in fact what we have done from the original invasion until now is constantly reduce Aboriginal people to subhuman status." So, according to the Pilger-McMullen view, indigenous Australians are still regarded as subhuman. Such hyperbole runs through the entire documentary. No other view gets an uninterrupted hearing... White and black Australians who support the Utopia line are allowed to state their case. Whites who proclaim a different view, such as Snowdon and Brough, are interrupted and disparaged. Pilger told Fairfax Media's Nick Galvin he chose not to interview Aboriginal leaders who are "part of the political elite...." Utopia glosses over the problems of drug and alcohol dependency among indigenous Australians along with the alarming rate of violence by Aborigines against other Aborigines, including women. Also Utopia fails to recognise that many indigenous Australians have a part-European or other background. Which means that, in Pilger's testimony, their predecessors were both the invaders and the invaded. It strikes me that many on the Left will not be satisfied until we have a race war. Australia Day two years ago - when a Julia Gillard staffer incited a violent protest by allegedly passing false information about Tony Abbott to the Aboriginal tent embassy - is not just a metaphor but a foretaste. The Left is playing with fire. The hatred being preached against Australia is astonishing. John Stone on the country some are now trying to tear apart: We should look back upon our history with pride, and rejoice in the good fortune of our inheritance, chiefly from Britain. The separation of Church and State, our parliamentary system, a respect for the rule of law (albeit not the rule of lawyers), the common law, and not least our language â that of Shakespeare, the King James Bible and the Book of Common Prayer, John Milton, and the list goes on â were all bequeathed to us, in some cases as a result of long and at times bitter struggles elsewhere. What a fortunate nation we have indeed been.