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I hereby claim Twitter on behalf of
@IndigenousX
.... all your tweets are belong to us.
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“Is it okay to punch Nazis?” has been downgraded to “is it okay to crack an egg on a Nazi’s head?” and the answer is still “no”?
It seems the only acceptable to answer to the question “What is it ok to do to Nazis?” is “Elect them” or “Invite them on to breakfast television”...
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I see some ppl saying it’s not cool to boycott Harvey Norman over the acts of one franchisee, and that’s fair... It’s a much better idea to boycott Harvey Norman because Gerry Harvey is a bigoted piece of shit.
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Kids in Year 5 & 6 are old enough to go to Australia’s Kid Prisons so I think they’re old enough to have opinions on police racism and police violence 🤷♂️
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The great thing about living in Australia is that emu eggs are huge. So much yolk in them.
Just leaving that bit of trivia out there, apropos of nothing, in case anyone finds such information of interest.
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The biggest problem with Abbott as Special Envoy is that the PM didn’t look at Indigenous Affairs and ask “What does this portfolio need?”, he looked at Abbott and asked “Wtf am I gonna do with this prick?”
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Everyone complaining that a 9yr old is too young to have a political opinion in a country that has its age of criminal responsibility set at only 10...
If she's almost old enough to go to jail in Australia, then she's old enough to have opinions.
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“KAK is Australian royalty!”
“You mean she’s an anachronistic symbol of colonialism who enjoys far more power and privilege and attention than she deserves? I totally agree.”
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Stop confusing Welcome to Country with Acknowledgement of Country. They are not the same thing.
Also, don’t acknowledge soldiers or settlers or anyone other than local mob when doing an Acknowledgement of Country.
It’s really not that fucking complicated, people!
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“You’re so lucky you were invaded by us! Just imagine where you’d be without us!!” they say, over the smouldering embers of a land they are dangerously close to making inhabitable through their greed and incompetence, to the people who sustained this land since time immemorial...
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Nigel Scullion, the minister for Indigenous Affairs, voting in support of what is widely known to be a white supremacist slogan, ‘It’s ok to be white’, makes his position as minister entirely untenable. He needs to resign.
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We all just have to accept the fact that Jan 26th is Australia Day.
As we all know, that’s the date that Cpt Cook rode Donald Bradman to a Melbourne Cup victory in Botany Bay, beating Adolf Hitler and thereby winning WWII for Australia... so stop trying to whitewash our history!
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*adds ‘police brutality’ next to ‘blackface’ and ‘slavery’ to the list of things that white Australians pretend have no history in Australia when they talk to Americans*
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The two biggest threats facing Australia right now are climate change and an ongoing pandemic, and our government’s response is to spend $270B on long range missiles... making our government the biggest threat facing Australia right now.
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Complete hypothetical with no real world application, but if a premier rocked up to the beach, took down the flags and said we can all swim anywhere we want but the lifeguard said they don’t think that’s a good idea, I’d probably ignore that premier and listen to the lifeguards…
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Personally, I absolutely fucking love it when our PM gaslights Indigenous ppl by pretending that the current state of Indigenous / coloniser relations is ‘we have said sorry, now you need to say ‘I forgive you’.
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It’s fucked knowing how many amazing ppl and groups, IndigenousX included, are out here day after trying to make enough money to survive and keep our projects afloat and then seeing over a million dollars raised in a day for a millionaire because he said some bigoted bullshit...
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The saddest thing about the whole change the date thing is the knowledge that white Australia doesn’t care about the date or about any specifics concerning their history. Not even a little bit... they care about denying Indigenous aspirations.
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Love this analogy from the PM, ‘you don’t pretend your birthday is on another day’... it’s so apt. It’d be like a 65,000 yr old pretending they are only 200.
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Brought the fam to Sydney for the weekend for work, and the hotel gave us a proper upgrade... it’s bigger than our house.
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Ffs, nsw... was it the racism or the misogyny that won you over? Either way, this is fucked.
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The crux of the animosity towards Dark Emu is the white man’s burden… Australia is committed to the premise that Aboriginal people are primitive and white people are civilising us for our own good.
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A young Indigenous artist has asked if he can do my portrait for the Archibald…
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In the interests of balance, we are giving Hannibal Lecter his own cooking show. While we may not always agree with cannibalism, it’s important to accomodate, and test, all viewpoints in Australian society, not just the side who thinks that killing people and eating them is “bad”
Thanks for all the feedback on our chat with Daniel Wild from
@TheIPA
this morning. It’s our role at the ABC to accommodate, and test, all viewpoints in Australian society, not just from one side of the spectrum. Thanks for watching!
@BreakfastNews
@abcnews
#yourAbc
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Fraser Anning upgrades from banning to all Muslim immigration to ‘all Muslim and Black immigration’ just in case anyone was remotely confused about his status as the most overt white supremacist candidate... the white supremacistist candidate.
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Another problem with ‘this is not who we are’ is that it’s always from ppl invested in this bullshit nationalistic collective identity stuff to begin with. If you want to have “Australia won a gold medal at the Olympics” then you also have to take “Australia committed war crimes”
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There is nothing more important for society than putting a billionaire on Mars because if we can get just one billionaire there then one day we can put every billionaire there and then leave them there and redistribute their wealth and never let anyone be a billionaire ever again
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Tomorrow is not
#HarmonyDay
, it is the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination… harmony day was created so ppl could pretend that there is no racism in Australia - eg ‘we don’t have any racial discrimination to eliminate, so we can just celebrate harmony’.
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Anyone complaining about ‘anti-white racism’ is racist as fuck. It’s not a thing. White supremacists promoting ‘white genocide’ stole the language of the oppressed to create a false sense of white victimhood to recruit disenfranchised white ppl into white extremism... fkn Bolta.
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Aboriginal man wrongly named as Cleo Smith abductor plans to sue Seven Network | NITV
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You don’t get to spend you short time as PM dismissing
#UluruStatement
, rejecting Treaty, condemning those of us who want to
#changethenation
for the better, & trolling Indigenous ppl in the lead up to
#InvasionDay
, and then make a video saying you respect ‘our Indigenous ppl’.
Happy Australia Day! Today is the day we come together to celebrate our great nation. We are stronger and better together.
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The three pronged definition of Aboriginality has never been perfect, more in the implementation than the process itself, but a ‘register of Aboriginal people’ ‘linked to existing Australian birth registration and native title genealogical records’ is a fucking horrendous idea.
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How come when a white person participates in the century old racist tradition of blackface they are vilified but when an Aboriginal person wears white ochre, a millenniums old tradition that has nothing whatsoever to do with white ppl, there’s no outrage? Riddle me that, Batman!
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Wait, did our latest PM really suggest we have a White Australia Day and a Black Australia Day? In an effort to be inclusive? Really? For real tho? Really real?
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I can’t believe our PM is using Australia Day to pretend that racism isn’t a problem in Australia... that’s what Harmony Day is for!
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Just so we are all on the same page, ‘Glass houses’ in this context means ‘We should keep each other’s secrets about sexual harassment and sexual abuse in our respective workplaces’ yeah? That’s a very cool and normal thing for a Prime Minister to say to media live on television.
Morrison and
@aclennell
clash at presser:
"Let's not all of us who sit in glass houses here start getting into that"
#MediaWatch
#auspol
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Imagine living in a world where 'resigning in disgrace' means you get to keep a job earning a few hundred K a year and you get to avoid any accountability or responsibility for your actions...
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The last thing I want to do is start a new conspiracy theory but, just between you and me, I’m not 100% convinced that Nazis and various other white supremacists are currently being motivated by their sincere concerns for the well-being of Indigenous people…
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I was thinking about One Nation’s general approach to politics, and suddenly got curious about if I’m allowed to start a political party that has zero interest in governing but says sensationalist bullshit to get some cash from the AEC without ever having to actually do anything?
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Ten years of cashless welfare cards wasn’t about trialling the cards; it was trialling voter apathy towards the people forced onto the cards, slowly increasing the level of focus group assessed concern about who was effected, which is why Indigenous ppl were the 1st guinea pigs.
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When John Howard says that racism hasn't been a problem for him, he is 100% right. He never let racism prevent him from being racist, from denying racism exists, or from suspending the Racial Discrimination Act on 3 seperate occasions in order to pass overtly racist legislation.
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#IstandwithJean
, well, I wanted to stand with Jean but they have a dress code at her private country club so I had to stand outside.
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I actually agree with the politicians saying that ‘robodebt’ is a misnomer... it implies there was actually a debt in the first instance.
Maybe ‘robotheft’, ‘robowehatepoorpeople’ or ‘robofuckyou’ would be more appropriate?
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Nothing is neutral.
The Olympic Committee is banning protests at the 2020 Olympics.
It says "political, religious or racial propaganda" like armbands, kneeling or raising a fist will not be allowed at games or medal ceremonies because "sport is neutral."
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Sure, by modern standards this article looks very racist, but you’ve got to understand that it was a different world earlier this morning when this was printed.
seriously, even by the lofty standards of the tele’s editorial pages this is pretty abysmal. how does that get through? (via
@erincook
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It’s weird seeing Liberals say that refugees on Nauru get better healthcare that in many rural towns... Firstly, that’s bullshit, but even if it was true it’s Liberal govts who are responsible for both so what point are they trying to make other than that they suck at their jobs?
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“Our thoughts and prayers and coal and budget cuts and contempt for science and lack of action, concern, or accountability are with you.”
Our thoughts and prayers are with those who have been so directly and horribly impacted by these fires.
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Fucking Australia Day... I can already see it creeping up on everyone like the horrible spectre of shit that it is.
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I’m less interested in an Indigenous PM than I am in self-determination for Indigenous communities... getting one person to ‘the top’ of a broken system is easier and less impactful than redesigning the system and elevating all Indigenous ppl, and all Australians, in the process.
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Bloody doctors with their ‘compassion’ and ‘ethics’ and ‘science’ and ‘respect for human life’... weak as piss.
Tony Abbott:"I have a lot of respect for the medical profession but we all know that doctors always err on the side of compassion."
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Those who cling to symbols of British colonialism and white supremacy are the ones who are stuck in the past, who are being divisive, who are holding this nation back, not those of us who can imagine a nation that learns from its history to build a better future.
#changethenation
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Indigenous ppl were forced to choose our own collective proper nouns as we never had one name that was used across languages as a collective name for all of us, and white ppl never gave us proper nouns - they gave us classifications: ‘native’ ‘aborigine’ ‘indigenous’ etc
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Apparently Scott had no idea that if you blow on a dog whistle long enough, dogs show up.
[1/2] I thank Vic police for their efforts dealing with the ugly racial protests we saw in St Kilda yesterday. Intolerance does not make Australia stronger.
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Fire’s closer than I’d like. Within 2km. We’re evacuating.
Stay safe out there, peeps 👊🏽
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I tried to take a nice photo with Soph before leaving for Sydney today because we were both dressed up fancy, but she wasn’t having a bar of it... the dog absolutely nailed it tho!
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The far right and the far left are actually the same - incomprehensible
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I just saw a post arguing how traditional hunting practices aren’t traditional because they were fishing from a motorboat… white ppl imagine our cultures as frozen in time and our identities, and our ‘authenticity’, as being tied to that period.
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Worth noting the PM changed the phrase ‘the most successful multicultural country in the world’ to ‘most successful migrant country’. Such language shifts in the political landscape are never by accident... It demonstrates a strategic choice to no longer endorse multiculturalism.
[2/2] Australia is the most successful migrant country in the world. This has been achieved by showing respect for each other, our laws and values and maintaining sensible immigration policies. Let’s keep it that way, it makes Australia stronger.
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Eddie Betts announced his retirement from AFL today - and he gave IndigenousX the first interview because he wanted to support Indigenous media.
Legend!
Exclusive: Eddie Betts talks to IndigenousX about his retirement from AFL football.
"you know what, the next stage of my life is about to start and I’m happy, I’m starting the next journey".
via
@MrDTJames
@ejclosebrown
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I wrote about Bill’s racist cartoons at the time, and I remember thinking ‘This has gone too far! I just wanted us to acknowledge that his cartoons are racist and not funny, but I never expected for this to snowball to the point that *checks notes* he suffered zero consequences.’
📖 Leigh Sales was a close friend of the late Australian cartoonist Bill Leak. In Die Laughing: The Biography of Bill Leak by
@FredPawle
, she opens up about their deep friendship and her views on his trial over free speech. Order your copy
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It's the active framing of Indigenous people's as the ones who are holding back 'reconciliation' for me...
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So, what does every single white person in Australia think about Australia Day? Keep in mind that if you can't provide a simple, universally applicable answer then you will be disqualified from having an opinion on this, or any future, topics.
Thank you in advance.
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Look, Jeff, if you ever get the urge to tweet at an Aboriginal woman again just write it down on a piece of paper instead, put the piece of paper in the middle of your golliwog collection, set it on fire, and then go fuck yourself.
@lidia__thorpe
Lidia,walk before you run. Like all new politicians you have to serve an apprenticeship. Do not mock the institution you have volunteered to join until you have earnt the right to be taken seriously.
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I fear the conversations about the importance of Indigenous knowledges may take a purely utilitarian approach, ‘It has so much to teach us!’, it does, but Indigenous knowledges have a right to exist that goes beyond its perceived benefits to the rest of the world.
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It’s cool how white Australia consistently loses its shit over the idea of white kids even hearing about things that too many Aboriginal kids have to live with...
Want to stop their kids learning about racist police but don’t want to stop racist police targeting Aboriginal kids.
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Just saw someone comparing Mundine with another Indigenous person saying the other was a ‘real Indigenous’... people need to cut that shit out.
If you think he’s a fuckwit that’s fine, no arguments here, but leave that ‘real Indigenous’ or whatever other racist shit at the door.
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If your Indigenous affairs highlights consist solely of changing a word in an anthem that nobody was asking for and giving the Aboriginal flag to ‘all Australians’ I probably wouldn’t be too boastful about it…
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When a landlord would rather readvertise their house for $20 a week less than rent it out to an Aboriginal family with good references and more than enough income to afford it, you can’t help but feel a bit fucking deflated...
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You can take anything you want off one white person this week, by any means necessary, but every time you use it you have to acknowledge them as the traditional owner of it, and at least once a year you need to invite them to Welcome you to use it.
#NAIDOCfacts2020
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So we’re not doing checkins anymore? Are we sure that’s a clever thing to not be doing? Because it doesn’t sound like a clever thing to not be doing and, given the option, I generally prefer to do the cleverer thing than the less clever thing.
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Wow, 37 years… just imagining all the *checks notes* two Indigenous actors who got their shot on Ramsey St over four amazing decades.
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I don’t talk a lot about my mental health on here because I don’t, but this year has been rough af. I’m starting to feel better tho. Writing more has been good for me, or maybe I’m writing more because I feel better. Whatever. I’m feeling better is the moral of the story.
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I hate that school scripture is opt out.
Religious edu in public schools should be opt in, not opt out... makes me furious just thinking about it.
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Australia in 2020, where Aboriginal lives matter less than Captain Cook statues and *checks notes* the criteria by which Netflix Australia decides whether or not to take a show off its site...
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I wrote a response to the unscientific, highly politicised criticisms of Indigenous science published today in the daily tele... The culture wars are petty, but hopefully it’ll give us a chance to make a few more ppl interested in Indigenous sciences.
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Govt acting like it doesn't know how to reduce incarceration rates while it also refuses to raise the age of criminal responsibility from TEN to fourteen. There's an instant decrease right there, and all we need to do is not lock up little children in cages.
#RaiseTheAge
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Normally I feel pretty exhausted and deflated by this time of
#InvasionDay
week but, despite some pretty horrific trolling here and in Facebook over my article, I’m actually feeling pretty optimistic that we can and will
#ChangeTheNation
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Is everyone reading this in tune to ‘That’s Amore’ or just me?
If it’s “Naarm” in the tweet, but “Melbourne” when you speak. That’s performative.
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Hilarious that you seem to think Aboriginal ppl lived without shelter, food, hygiene, medicine, or educating children. We only needed new medicine for the diseases brought, and food when our food sources were stolen...
“Thanks for stealing the cake and giving us poisoned crumbs”
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Breaking: There‘s no such thing as a ‘legitimate PM’ in Australia as Terra Nullius is a myth, meaning that Australia’s sovereignty is illegitimate, and there‘s no Treaty that could provide the moral or legal legitimacy for the nation-state ‘Australia’ to exist in the first place.
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Australia is a fascinating country… lots of racism but no racists, ongoing colonisation but no colonisers.
It’s a real mystery 🤷♂️
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“I have it on good authority that the white guy standing in the creek got a splinter from his sword handle that day, and one of the guys on horseback got really bad chafing from being in the saddle too long so, you know, colonisation was hard on everyone!”
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This guy wouldn’t know a historical fact if it rebuilt a disgraced political career by becoming an abusive internet troll and then joined One Nation…
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“He’s got a life sentence from this” says Eddie McGuire, presumably while out on day release from his own multiple life sentences 🙄
"I got everything I needed to get out of that."
Eddie McGuire reacts to the Taylor Walker apology video and Caroline Wilson doesn't agree.
#9FootyClassified
| Watch
@channel9
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White ppl who invaded Australia weren’t ‘boat people’. They weren’t even migrants. There is a huge difference between ‘settler colonialists’ and ‘migrants’. Google that shit. I get what you’re going for with ‘we’re all boat people/migrants, except for Indigenous ppl’ but stop it.
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I love when ppl say IndigenousX is 'preaching to the converted'.
First off, mob talking to mob isn't about converting . It's about sharing, supporting, caring and empowering each other.
And as for non-mob ppl, no, I don't think they're all 'converts' just because they follow.
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When I hear about religious persecution/need for religious freedoms in this country I can’t help but reflect that not only was Christianity forced upon Indigenous peoples, but today our religions aren’t even acknowledged as religions... we just get ’Aboriginal spirituality’.
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My condolences to your staff, your students, and your reputation.
UOW is proud to announce it is partnering with the
@theramsaycentre
to deliver a Bachelor of Arts (Western Civilisation) from 2020.
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After 200+ years of locking up Indigenous people, and 30 years of ignoring recommendations from the Royal Commission, it’s hard not to come to the conclusion that the unjust and unnecessary over incarceration of Indigenous peoples is a feature and not a flaw.
#RCIADIC30Years
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You know how I’m always saying that speaking out against racism is far more damaging to your career prospects than actually being racist... this.
Kerri-Anne deserves better than how she was treated today. Here's why I never allowed Yumi on
@Studio10au
when I was running the show:
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Vaccinate your kids.
This is not up for debate.
Don’t vaccine your kids period! The government bully you into vaccine ! Do your research on the shit & watched the documentary vaxxed ...
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I love it when cultural warriors try to cancel someone because they are outraged by something that didn’t happen.
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So we’re clear: racism is overplayed and people are too sensitive and it’s not really an issue in Australia anyway and free speech and stuff, unless we’re taking about racism against white ppl and then we are talking about the very survival of western civilisation, because feels.
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‘Keep politics out of sport’ is code for ‘leave the outdated politics that are already in sport there and keep out any contemporary considerations that might better represent a mature society with the capacity for growth and reflection’
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