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Referendum’s clear choices on the way Australia should go

Indigenous for well over 100 years couldn’t ‘Testify’, or “Bear Witness”  in any court in the Colony because Aborigines simply couldn’t swear on a bible as they were heathens. That belief was the cornerstone of our racist system which has carried through as a belief that they can’t be trusted even today.. As a consequence, crimes by whites murder, rape, theft, or the stealing of children never came before the courts. Charges were never laid as there weren’t any white Christians who would testify.

Today Andrew Bolt publicly calls Indigenous Australians liars if they accuse whites of racist crimes or our Institutions as Racial. To do so is not to be a REALIST but to be WOKE and a  REVERSE RACIST.

The Voice Referendum presents voters with many dilemmas, including, for “Yes” voters after a secret ballot, how to tell who not to invite into their homes.

Source: Referendum’s clear choices on the way Australia should go

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Neo-Nazi threats against Lidia Thorpe reveal ugly side of politics

Thorpe has little if no faith in white institutions. To be honest, I don’t have that much myself.

Source: Neo-Nazi threats against Lidia Thorpe reveal ugly side of politics

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Albanese and Dutton set aside differences to back Israel

What is “abhorrent” is that the Australian Government never applied that term to the constant and incessant provocations by the Israeli government. They closed their eyes to the Israeli Government’s sponsored, almost daily, attacks on Palestinians in Gaza the West Bank, and in Jerusalem itself. Nothing was said only silence when Israelis invaded Palestinian places of worship whether Muslim or Christian it didn’t seem to matter. It’s shamed the LNP but that was no surprise. But it now shames an ALP government and that’s a major disappointment to those that voted Labor.

Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton have joined to condemn Hamas’ assault on Israel, with the Prime Minister condemning the attacks as “abhorrent”.

Source: Albanese and Dutton set aside differences to back Israel

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Environment: Australia labelled a ‘Planet Wrecker’

Climate change awareness globe.

Wind and solar roll-outs are increasing globally. Australia and other Climate Wreckers ignore the science and develop new oil and gas fields.

Source: Environment: Australia labelled a ‘Planet Wrecker’

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Paul Bongiorno: Key question for voters on the Voice

Australia is seen as an Apartheid nation in the Pacific

Some can hear Albanese’s referendum night speech if it goes down.

They believe he will say he proposed the constitutional change with the best intentions and to keep faith with Indigenous and Torres Strait Islanders. It was always doomed without bipartisan support and he will attempt to move forward in a way that doesn’t involve what the people have rejected.

There will be no painless way out of such a calamitous outcome for our nation and its First Peoples.

Source: Paul Bongiorno: Key question for voters on the Voice

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Paying the ‘Price’: The ‘no’ case infected by fanatical Christianity

 An investigation into the rhetoric of proponents of the “No” campaign reveals the erosion of the fragile constitutional foundation of the “separation of church and state” in Australia.

Source: Paying the ‘Price’: The ‘no’ case infected by fanatical Christianity

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The AFL had the power to turn the tide – Pearls and Irritations

Former AFL player Michael Long in Canberra as part of his recreating his Long Walk in 2004, Wednesday, September 13, 2023. Image: AAP/Mick TsikasBobby brings house down with scintillating speccy

On The Voice, the AFL has hung back and refused to put its head right over the ball and have a fair dinkum go on its biggest day.

I was imagining that classic aerial shot of a packed MCG, with people of all ages in all club colours running out from the centre circle, opening a huge canvas with “Yes” clear for all the world – or at least all of Australia – to see.

But I was dreaming.

The AFL has prided itself on being socially responsible, on being caring and on being something of a role model.

It has incredible power, which it generally seems to have used for good.

On The Voice, however, in my view, while it formally expressed support, the AFL has hung back and refused to put its head right over the ball and have a fair dinkum go on its biggest day.

It is a contest that demands to be won, and a contest the AFL could have swung the right way as we near time-on in this most important campaign.

Source: The AFL had the power to turn the tide – Pearls and Irritations

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The referendum: So little asked, so graciously, but seemingly too much – Pearls and Irritations

Uluru Statement from the Heart, May 2017, Aboriginal Convention, Central Australia

Why do so many of my fellow non-Indigenous Australians seemingly have such a deep aversion towards the Aboriginal peoples of this land? Sadly, I am compelled to ask that question as we approach a referendum asking for constitutional recognition of Australia’s First Nations and an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voice to parliament.

Source: The referendum: So little asked, so graciously, but seemingly too much – Pearls and Irritations

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(1) National Times – Leading No campaigner Nyunggai Warren Mundine… | Facebook

1) Mundine says he will join the Uluru Council if YES23 wins. However, he doesn’t even begin to say who will vote for him.

2) He wanted to run for preselection in Marise Payne’s vacated seat and better represent his white constituency as does Jacinta Price. Backed down for flipflopping on the  No Campaign

3) Indigenous Australians see them as “Plastic” Dutton’s Ken and Barbie

4)“The fact is that most Indigenous Australians are doing fine,” he said.  60% live below the “poverty line”.  Another 30% live either on the edge or under a glass ceiling

5)“It is wrong to tell young people growing up in these families that they are disadvantaged because they are Indigenous. So Mundine Speaking for himself and a very small minority. While 83%  simply  recognize a statistical reality that’s not “doing fine”

6)”It’s wrong to tell them, as I’ve heard many times during this campaign, they are more likely to go to prison than to university. Because it’s just not true.”

However, a 2015 ABC RMIT Fact Check found that it is true, that Indigenous men are more likely to go to jail than to university.
7)”Imagine if all the celebrities, corporates, law firms, sporting codes, religious groups, local, state, territory and federal governments, unions and agencies and bureaucracies had devoted all that energy, time, money and other resources they’ve devoted to the Voice to getting Indigenous children into school.” It’s why they turned because  they have witnessed the LNP failure to do anything
8)“What I’m talking about is whether you agree with victimhood or not, or whether you agree with colonial intergenerational trauma, there is a stage you have to move on,” Mr Mundine said.  Guess that  attitude also applies to women who have been raped according to Mundine “move on”
9) The Germany teaches its shameful Nazi history and changed their society to prevent the past from repeating itself. The Norwegians and NZers have given the Sami and Maoris Voice and do the same. Other countries have a Bill of Human Rights enshrined in their constitution and/or laws. We don’t. We have Race built into our Constitution and the Liberals wanted to close the UNAHRC while Abbott promised to rid us of sections of the Racial Discrimination Act. He promised to “change the laws”
Should we feel proud that stand shoulder-to-shoulder and closer to Russia, China, North Korea and Israel?

Source: (1) National Times – Leading No campaigner Nyunggai Warren Mundine… | Facebook

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No means no – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Help yourselves Australia. We have had a problem for 250 years and it has never been Black. Indigenous People have had a Voice on previous occasions like ASTIC but it was removed. Ripped away by the Howards and Abbott’s. It’s time to change direction and “Fix It”! Cuban Global Voulteers came to teach and be health workers in remote Indigenous communities and were shocked with what they saw the worst living conditions of any people ever seen on the planet. White Pride and privilege is Australia’s Shame and Dutton simply says what’s been said for 10 generations by white colonisers “There’s really no problem other than that of their own making and it’s a “lifestyle choice.” Listen to Jacinta Price she’s “their (my) voice.

Voting ‘no’ is essentially a vote to not change anything because there might be something we didn’t think about that happens down the track. As countless people, including the former Spanish Football President have found out to their cost – no means no – there are no excuses. Your ‘no’ vote is the same as Dutton’s, Price’s or Mundine’s – regardless of how you try to justify it to yourself or others. And if you don’t know – do the research. Here’s a link to help you start.

Source: No means no – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Everything you need to ‘No’ for the Voice Referendum

 Peter Dutton in the footsteps of Donald Trump has been shown at rallies suggesting that if Yes23 succeeds Indigenous Australians will be saying “If you’re white, you have to go to the back of the line. ” That any positive discrimination is discrimination against white people and therefore Racist. The far-right of the LNP are against the immigration of colored people other than for temporary labor. They are ideologically aligned with the “great replacement theory” that contends white privilege and power is being radically displaced by immigrants.  The No campaign underlies an ever-fiercer defense of so-called Christian nationalist identity. Let’s not forget just how Dutton laughed at Pacific Islanders, at Boomgate. Was anti-Asylum Seekers Muslims and Africans. No matter their religion they were the new gangs in Australia and has even maintained that racial discrimination going on right now in this country was the action of the Yes campaign. Until the Voice was proposed there was no racism in this country. For Christ’s Sake Australian Indigenous peoples in the main are far more practicing Christians than even whites and fail to be listened to. Here are a List of claims by the no-voters in 2023

The key to clickbait is to give an odd-number, single-digit list of things to confirm prejudices.

Source: Everything you need to ‘No’ for the Voice Referendum

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Overthrowing Allende: Australia’s special role in destroying a democracy – Pearls and Irritations

Salvador Allende Image source: Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional / Wikimedia Commons /licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Chile license.

Australia remains a Colony

Five decades on, some parliamentarians have called for a formal acknowledgement of Canberra’s role in the destruction of a democracy that led to the death and torture of tens of thousands by a brutal military junta. The Greens spokesperson for Foreign Affairs and Peace, Senator Jordon Steele-John, stated his party’s position: “50 years on we know Australia was involved, as it worked to support the US national interest. To this day, Australia’s secretive and unaccountable national security apparatus has blocked the release of information and has denied closure for thousands of Chilean-Australians.”

In calling for an apology to the Chilean people, the Greens are also demanding the declassification of any relevant ASIS and ASIO documents that would show support for Pinochet, including implementing “oversight and reform to our intelligence agencies to ensure that this can never happen again.”

Source: Overthrowing Allende: Australia’s special role in destroying a democracy – Pearls and Irritations

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The ‘China Threat’: Can we escape the historical legacy of Anti-Chinese Racism? – Pearls and Irritations

American, British, Australian security military alliance. Relations between AUKUS and China.

Australia’s LNP denial of the nation’s racism is a denial of our Europhile history. Let’s remind ourselves of the shame buried beneath our racist denials

and is perhaps not far distant, when the European observer will look around to see the globe girdled with a continuous zone of the black and yellow races, no longer too weak for aggression or under tutelage, but independent, or practically so, in government, monopolising the trade of their own regions, and circumscribing the industry of the European.

Invited to ‘international conferences, and welcomed as allies in the quarrels of the civilised world’, the rise of China as a global power meant that white man’s ‘pride of place’ would be ‘humiliated’.

Source: The ‘China Threat’: Can we escape the historical legacy of Anti-Chinese Racism? – Pearls and Irritations

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“Yes” will say “No” to Trumpism and US-like social disintegration – Pearls and Irritations

Greg and his dog Fred-in Canberra.

All living in a land with increasing income and wealth gaps called Australia’s (Shush) Capitalism built on land where the original owners are the most disadvantaged and have been so for 240 years

1) because they were never meant to be here

2) because they’re noticeably Black and therefore….. simply not equal

3) because when they say “Welcome”  Whites don’t believe they mean it

4)  It’s been Australia’s  Shame since 1788

I’m voting “Yes” as a proud Australian of Aboriginal, European and Middle-eastern ancestry. Australia’s Constitution needs to catch up with the nation we are today. We’re a multicultural superpower and Asia-Pacific democracy, founded on 65,000 years of heritage and culture. Our Constitution needs to reflect that.

Source: “Yes” will say “No” to Trumpism and US-like social disintegration – Pearls and Irritations

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Voice to Parliament a remedy for First Nations oppression

When white Australians are becoming increasingly what they regard as “Aboriginal” poor, homeless, incarcerated, suicidal, etc etc what are the chances of turning the tide for black people in a racist country without giving them all a Voice to Parliament. Meanwhile, arseholes like Dutton promises cake

Voting in the Voice to Parliament could be a stepping stone towards eradicating the high amount of Indigenous incarceration, suicide and poverty, writes Gerry Georgatos.

Source: Voice to Parliament a remedy for First Nations oppression

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Destroying Chilean Democracy: Australia’s Covert Role Five Decades On – » The Australian Independent Media Network

In 1983, Australia’s Attorney-General Senator Gareth Evans told the Senate that no Australian security agency had gotten its hands dirty in activities that eventually led to the overthrow of Chilean President Salvador Allende. In what can only count as a stunning whopper of a statement, Evans stated the following: “To the extent that some intelligence co-operation activity may have occurred at an earlier time, there is no foundation for any suggestion that Australia in any way assisted any other country in any alleged operations or activity directed against the Allende regime.”

FOI has revealed the shameful involvement of the UK in their support and involvement in the Pinochet Coup in Chile, America’s involvement was always patently clear. How is it ours in Australia remains a well-held secret. One that would show just how influenced we are by the more pwerful?

In calling for an apology to the Chilean people, the Greens are also demanding the declassification of any relevant ASIS and ASIO documents that would show support for Pinochet, including implementing “oversight and reform to our intelligence agencies to ensure that this can never happen again.” With the monster of AUKUS enveloping Australia’s national security, the good Senator should not hold his breath.

Source: Destroying Chilean Democracy: Australia’s Covert Role Five Decades On – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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“Those against the Voice… – The Fiberal Party of Australia – Lies & Misdemeanours | Facebook

Once again, it seems only white men know best for Aboriginal peoples

The British Monarch even apologized for the Inglorious past of the British Empire. Much of which remained undetailed or completely ignored in the History we are taught.  The Australian Conservatives pictured above insist on those false Myths retained and any effort to correct them is restrained. Australian History is like the moon it has a very dark side. Conservatives don’t want it to be revealed. Whereas Yes is for enlightenment unity and revealing the truth on who we are. Yes, asks us to “Turn on the Lights”  and the Uluru Statement is the switch.

“Those who argue against an Indigenous Voice to Parliament because they believe it will be racially divisive must be ignorant of the founding of this country. In 1788, the violent occupation of unceded Aboriginal lands began. But this story was hidden in Australian history, with a narrative of lawful settlement peddled instead.

Source: “Those who argue No – The Fiberal Party of Australia – Lies & Misdemeanours | Facebook

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“Complete habitat destruction” – scientists rally against NSW Forestry Corporation clear felling – Michael West

Kalang forest vandalism

State-owned Forestry Corporation’s latest effort to start logging Oakes State Forest is threatening the NSW Government’s promised Great Koala National Park. It’s attracting local consternation and global condemnation, Sue Arnold reports.

Source: “Complete habitat destruction” – scientists rally against NSW Forestry Corporation clear felling – Michael West

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The 1901 Constitution: Designed for a ‘White’ Australia

Source: The 1901 Constitution: Designed for a ‘White’ Australia

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To Hell in a Hand Basket – » The Australian Independent Media Network

If you’re trying to understand what it means “to go to hell in a handbasket” simply take a glance at recent history and government ruled by the LNP, particularly in the past decade. Then listen to Peter Dutton try to tell you that a deficit of a trillion dollars is really nothing when it was 3rd of that under the ALP. Who saved the country from the GFC. Listen to Peter Dutton tell you the ‘working poor” are better off today because unemployment is down and casualized labor up. That the “pink bats” scandal was the worst and bigger than any ever seen under the LNP. How many more fingers do you need to count the 5 deaths than those because of offshore detention, Covid, and Robocop? Listen to him Ley and Cash tell you the ALP was never as united as the LNP are today and why Fraser, Hewson, and Turnbull all jumped ship and left the party. Then evaluate what it means to go “to hell in a handbasket” with a media-driven Trump-like PM called Scomo who is still sitting on the back bench smelling like rotting fish

The Voice may not be perfect, it may not answer all the questions but it’s a start and just like most other changes we have seen in our lifetimes, won’t lead us to hell in a hand basket.

Source: To Hell in a Hand Basket – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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“This is WHITELASH – The Fiberal Party of Australia – Lies & Misdemeanours | Facebook

Welcome to the whitelash: how an aggrieved refusal to learn is driving the No campaign

Suddenly, publicly, it’s all about the “whitelash”: the backlash by the largely British-descended settler class (aging, usually non-urban, often poorly educated) against the increasing recognition that Indigenous culture is a defining force in the way we think about Australia.

Source: “This is… – The Fiberal Party of Australia – Lies & Misdemeanours | Facebook

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If you don’t understand – do the research – » The Australian Independent Media Network

If you want to retreat to the comfy 1950s and never change anything, that is your prerogative but you can’t pick and choose to take the technical and lifestyle benefits of the 21st century while decrying the same lifestyle and technology. In short – you can’t have it both ways. Do your research and vote accordingly but if you vote no because you don’t understand – that’s a cop out and a sad indicator of your intelligence.

Source: If you don’t understand – do the research – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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CPAC 2023 a breeding ground for dangerous ideologies

The recent CPAC conference gave a platform to a number of speakers with ties to neo-Nazis and ‘jobbers’ voicing racist hate speech, writes Tom Tanuki.

Source: CPAC 2023 a breeding ground for dangerous ideologies

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“This week Stan Grant , The Media… – The Fiberal Party of Australia – Lies and Misdemeanours | Facebook

The media will play a profound role in the Voice referendum, but are they up to it?

He went on: “I want to find a place of grace, far from the stench of the media. I want to go where I am not reminded of the social media sewer.” Stan Grant

The statement is a generous invitation to walk together into a better future, and the Voice is the first step.”

Source: “This week… – The Fiberal Party of Australia – Lies & Misdemeanours | Facebook

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The Voice: walking with the Australian people for a better future – Pearls and Irritations

Uluru Statement from the Heart from the First Nations National Constitutional Convention.

“For me, indigenous recognition won’t be changing our constitution so much as completing it.” – Tony Abbot, 2015.

Source: The Voice: walking with the Australian people for a better future – Pearls and Irritations

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CPAC Australia defends comedian who referred to traditional owners as ‘violent black men’ | Indigenous voice to parliament | The Guardian

Rodney Marks behind a lectern at the CPAC conference

Punching Down has always been Racism disguised and excused as “Just Joking” CPAC 2023 had a house full of ugly Australians applauding Punching Down with two Uncle Toms leading on their cheering.

“Each of us has a choice. You’re with the nasties voting no, or you believe Australia can be better and vote yes.”

Source: CPAC Australia defends comedian who referred to traditional owners as ‘violent black men’ | Indigenous voice to parliament | The Guardian

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CPAC Australia: hardline culture warriors rail against Indigenous voice, ‘fake news’ and ‘woke corporates’ | Australian politics | The Guardian

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price said Australians should oppose the Indigenous voice to parliament as a way to stand against ‘woke insidious cancel culture’ and ‘city elites’Tony Abbott, a member of Advance’s advisory board, said defeating the referendum should be the ‘main focus’ of CPAC attendees.

Abbott went on to claim “hundreds of Aboriginal men would not have signed up to fight for king and country in 1914 and 1915 if they had been the subjects of a racist empire”.

The Australian War Memorial offers more context. Its website states about 1,000 Indigenous soldiers enlisted in the first world war, but “upon their return to civilian life they were treated with the same prejudice and discrimination as before”.

“By the end of 1915 it became harder for Aboriginal Australians to enlist, and some were rejected because of their race … Instructions for the ‘guidance of enlisting officers at approved military recruiting depots’ issued in 1916 state that ‘Aboriginals, half-casts, or men with Asiatic blood are not to be enlisted’,” the AWM website says.

Perhaps Abbott could have provided more detail.

Parroting a Trump catchcry wasn’t exactly surprising for the CPAC event, a local franchise of the long-running American conservative gathering. In keeping with its US roots, the event hosted a smattering of devotees of the Donald, alongside several Sky “after dark” favourites and one-fifth of the Nationals partyroom.

Source: CPAC Australia: hardline culture warriors rail against Indigenous voice, ‘fake news’ and ‘woke corporates’ | Australian politics | The Guardian

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1951- Documenting Australia’s Shame

The NO voters seem to fall into four camps:

1). The Duttonistas, who don’t give a fuck about the country but just want to inflict a defeat on Albo.

2). Racists.

3). The jealous and bitter, kicking down.

4). Fuckwits

Not one of the white folks advocating a NO vote has a copy of his/her dad or granddad’s “General Certificate of Exemption”?

What, they didn’t need one to walk to work!

Well that’s why I’m voting Yes. Yes. Yes!

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Of Course You Already Know What I’m Going To Write But I Have A Surprise Or Two Yet…Rossleigh – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Honestly AI or Andrew Bolt. Murdoch would have to sack AI or heavily edit it in order to maintain his quid pro quo arrangements with the IPA and LNP

So there we have it. AI could take the place of Andrew Bolt tomorrow but it would probably be sacked due to its ability to consider a counter argument.

Source: Of Course You Already Know What I’m Going To Write But I Have A Surprise Or Two Yet… – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Labor Government shuns Assange to placate U.S. sovereigns

The Australian Government failed to challenge U.S. officials on the fate of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at the recent AUSMIN defence conference, writes Dr Binoy Kampmark.

Source: Labor Government shuns Assange to placate U.S. sovereigns

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The United States has put Australia back in its place … again

After a rather extraordinary month of steadily escalating defence PR and conspiracy opportunities, Australia was sat on its backside over the weekend and reminded to know its subservient place.

Source: The United States has put Australia back in its place … again

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Australian National Sovereignty and Economic Welfare in Peril? Feedback from the AUSMIN Meeting in Brisbane – » The Australian Independent Media Network

The Second and Silent Invasion of Australia by a “cluster bomber”

Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wong and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Richard Marles hosted the U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III on 29 July in Brisbane to advance the Australia-U.S. Alliance and their cooperation in the Indo-Pacific and globally. Building on the high tempo of engagement between leaders and ministers, including the meeting between Prime Minister Albanese and President Biden in May 2023, the Ministers and Secretaries (the principals) determined that the Alliance has never been stronger. Based on a bond of shared values, it remains a partnership of strategic interest – premised on a common determination to preserve stability, prosperity, and peace.

Source: Australian National Sovereignty and Economic Welfare in Peril? Feedback from the AUSMIN Meeting in Brisbane – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Prison hulks and river blades: fortress building in the climate-catastrophe era – » The Australian Independent Media Network

News headlines featuring the cruel asylum seeker policies

Britain has commissioned a prison hulk to house immigrants, in a cruel re-enactment of history. Meanwhile, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has implemented two strategies to stop immigrants crossing the Rio Grande into America: one is a floating barrier with razor wire and rolling motion that pulls people under the water; the other is an apparent order to push people into the river, including mothers holding small children. One horrifying aspect for an Australian audience reading these developments is that we have been part of the inspiration for their increasingly horrifying treatment of the displaced.

Source: Prison hulks and river blades: fortress building in the climate-catastrophe era – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Cover up: The Australian Government’s secret list of US bases – Pearls and Irritations

Australia flag on Eagle eye with dispalce and mask.

What do the governments of other US allies, including Hungary, Norway, the Philippines, and the former puppet government of Afghanistan, possess that Australian governments do not? The answer is a conception of genuine sovereignty, and obligations to transparency that are foreign to Australian governments, particularly the incumbent Albanese government.

Source: Cover up: The Australian Government’s secret list of US bases – Pearls and Irritations

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What gets some whitefellas angry and anxious – Pearls and Irritations

Thomas Mayo, a Kaurareg Aboriginal and Kalkalgal, Erubamle Torres Strait Islander man speaking in front of Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney and members of the Referendum Working Group and Referendum Engagement Group during a Voice to Parliament press conference, in Adelaide, Friday, March 17, 2023. Image: AAP/Matt Turner

Note the AFR apologized for it’s taking the RACIST money $20,000 for the No campaign Ad. Or did they donate it? They quickly said it won’t happen again. However, that’s in no way stopped the No campaign from finding others to take their money to publish BULLSHIT that lies ahead.

There is nothing that agitates some whitefellas more than an intelligent, articulate and charismatic blackfella.

The No campaign has featured Thomas Mayo in a crude racist full page ad in the AFR with Michael and Kate Chaney. They are also circulating a nasty video mash up which uses selective footage to depict Mayo as a threatening and dangerous subversive.

Source: What gets some whitefellas angry and anxious – Pearls and Irritations

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Australia scores zero for taking action to protect our health from climate change

Global healthcare concept. World globe crystal glass on blue stethoscope on glossy desk. Health and medical science. Worldwide wellness business Image: iStock

Climate change poses major threats to the health of all people globally. Australia has been slow to recognise this. In an assessment of the health-related content of 58 nations’ plans to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions in line with the Paris Agreement, Australia scored zero.

Source: Australia scores zero for taking action to protect our health from climate change

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Yes, the world is watching – The Fiberal Party of Australia – Lies & Misdemeanours | Facebook

Aboriginal Australians may at last be given a say in their own affairs

In 1967 even Harold Holt said Yes would improve our standing in the eyes of the rest of the world. However, while that removed the racial references in our Constitution it didn’t go far enough. hidden from plain sight the racist possibilities still remained. Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders remained more migrants than fully-fledged Australians simply because of their race.

Most Australians thought that the 1967 referendum would allow full citizenship rights for Indigenous Australians. But the referendum didn’t give Aborigines the vote, equal pay or citizenship rights. It also didn’t address their rates of pay or personal freedoms – issues that also needed urgent attention.

Yet the Voice would give Aboriginal people a say where they still have little. A leg up for them does not mean a leg down for others. What better way, indeed, for a nation to come together than to deal with its greatest unfinished business. And what a blunder it would be to deny indigenous Australians a fair go.”Aboriginal Australians may at last be given a say in their own affairs

Source: Yes, the… – The Fiberal Party of Australia – Lies & Misdemeanours | Facebook

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Cruel Arrangements: The UK-Rwanda Refugee Deal Falters – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Abbott and Downer Shame us

Since 2022, Rwanda has been very much on the mind of British policy makers, a dark option of retreat from the irritating intrusions of international refugee law. The English Channel has become something of a polemical resource, with those seeking to cross it demonised as undermining Britannia’s sacred sovereignty.

Giddy with the dusty advice of Australian advisors – the crude offerings of wisdom from former foreign minister Alexander Downer, and former Prime Minister Tony Abbott stand out – respective Tory governments have been pondering how to stem the arrival of irregular migrants and asylum seekers.

The use of third states as a means of deferring obligations of protection towards refugees has become an attractive, brutal way of snuffing out the right to asylum. The UN Refugee Convention of 1951 is treated as a dead letter, and options such as the “Australian model” in repelling unwanted arrivals thrill populist politicians.

Source: Cruel Arrangements: The UK-Rwanda Refugee Deal Falters – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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“Om-washing” sanitises India’s brutal track record in Kashmir – Pearls and Irritations

map of jammu kashmir landakh

In August 2019, Modi’s government revoked the semi-autonomous status of Jammu and Kashmir. That was followed by a crackdown. Political activity was banned, politicians were placed under house arrest and the internet was choked. Meanwhile, the Indian army posts photos of its soldiers in yoga poses, and we are told that China is all bad and India is all good.

Source: “Om-washing” sanitises India’s brutal track record in Kashmir – Pearls and Irritations

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War service did not stop the racism – Pearls and Irritations

The Australian flag and Australian Aboriginal flag fly on the Sydney.

Noel Turnbull’s article about the treatment of black warriors who wore the Australian uniform make for some uncomfortable reading for those Australians who think Indigenous peoples have no need to control their own destinies. Historically, we have applied the claim that veterans are heroes very selectively.

Source: War service did not stop the racism – Pearls and Irritations

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Born in the USA – Australia, India & the Quad

Australian ALP not only endorses India’s domestic agenda but Israel’s as well

Australia has implicitly endorsed Modi’s domestic agenda, including his attacks on democracy and on dissent. There is nothing in the interests of the Australian people that will be enhanced by this extreme position of deference to Modi and indifference to human rights concerns.

Source: Born in the USA – Australia, India & the Quad

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Yes, of course we need a Human Rights Act! – Pearls and Irritations

Human Rights Act and gavel on a table. concept

 

Australia is the only democratic country in the world without a charter of human rights in either legislation or the Constitution.

Source: Yes, of course we need a Human Rights Act! – Pearls and Irritations

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World Airline Awards 2023: Qantas plummets; Singapore Airlines takes top spot from Qatar Airways

Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce at the launch of the airline’s non-stop Auckland to New York flights last week.

Nevertheless, this man was celebrated as a hero by the LNP with $5+B in subsidies. “Better Money Managers” who the fuck thinks so? Corporate Minders, Caretakers of Capitalism that’s the scam? Morrison’s devotion was to manipulation by media marketing no matter the cost and we paid for the inevitable failures.

Qantas has dropped dramatically from the top five in an annual ranking of the world’s best airlines, falling all the way to 17th.

Source: World Airline Awards 2023: Qantas plummets; Singapore Airlines takes top spot from Qatar Airways

Australia's Shame

Ben Roberts-Smith – the beautiful things he’s seen – The Shot

Australia’s war memorial was so desperate for their hero, they turned him into a two-metre high altar so the masses could worship in their theme-park temple of war. All of them needed a hero. They needed a righteous man, a man who looked death in the eye, and when he wanted, could kill the cunts without remorse.

Australia needed something brave and yes even ugly, from such a fetid, unavailing war. Australians demanded a hero, whatever the price.

And for our sins – they gave us one.

Source: Ben Roberts-Smith – the beautiful things he’s seen – The Shot

Australia's Shame

The case for recognising Palestine – Pearls and Irritations

Al-Masara, Occupied Palestinian Territories - August 24, 2012: Italian solidarity activists join Palestinians confronting heavily armed Israeli soldiers in a weekly nonviolent demonstration against the separation barrier that would cut off the West Bank village of Al Ma'sara from its agricultural lands.

Since a United Nations General Assembly Resolution vote in November 2012, Palestine has had the status of a state within the UN system. It is not a full member state but, like the Holy See, a non-member observer state. Australia – after a heady debate within the Gillard cabinet – abstained on that vote.

Source: The case for recognising Palestine – Pearls and Irritations

Australia's Shame

Voice, treaty, truth: compared to other settler nations, Australia is the exception, not the rule

histories remind us how long First Nations people have waited for political recognition in this country – and that, compared to other former colonial sites, Australia is the exception, not the rule.

Source: Voice, treaty, truth: compared to other settler nations, Australia is the exception, not the rule

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How Ben Roberts-Smith intimidated witnesses, invoked SAS code of silence

Disgraced war hero Ben Roberts-Smith waged an aggressive campaign to cover up his war crimes, invoking a special forces’ code of silence as well as smearing and threatening those he thought had revealed his misconduct.

Source: How Ben Roberts-Smith intimidated witnesses, invoked SAS code of silence

Australia's Shame

(1) “There’s unease among Australians – The Fiberal Party of Australia – Lies & Misdemeanours |

We’ll never hear the Voice over the media’s loud conflict coverage

Australia is suffering internally and is a Global embarrassment in the eyes of the rest of the world. The very call to a “No vote” is living proof of a level of racist politics sustained and actioned illegally and immorally for these past 240 years. Any demand for “No” is simply proof of an Inglorious past still living in the present and that makes us an exception on the planet among those nations where First Nations Peoples were colonized and their presence went less than recognized in the name of Empire. God didn’t give White Australia this Nation just as God didn’t give Jews Israel. However, Dutton thinks otherwise.

It’s the no vote that’s dangerous.

Source: (1) “There’s a… – The Fiberal Party of Australia – Lies & Misdemeanours | Facebook

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Dutton Says He Has Loads of Indigenous Mates Who Oppose the Voice but You Wouldn’t Know Them Because They Go to Another School — The Shovel

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says he has HUNDREDS of Indigenous mates who think The Voice is total bullshit, but you probably wouldn’t know them because they live ages away in another suburb.

Source: Dutton Says He Has Loads of Indigenous Mates Who Oppose the Voice but You Wouldn’t Know Them Because They Go to Another School — The Shovel

Australia's Shame

Mundine, Price falsely claim Millwarparra man as Vincent Lingiari’s grandson to push No campaign | SBS NITV

FAIR AUSTRALIA STEWART LINGIARI WEB HERO V2.jpg

In a pathetic justification, Warren Mundine continues to try to insist the man he and Price falsely claim to be Lingiari’s grandson is,  Mundine even in the face of his denials says “you don’t know Aboriginal culture”!! It seems Mundine knows more than the man himself. All in an effort to justify his misguided and false Fair Australia ad. The ad he and Price used in their vote “No” campaign. Mundine and Price are proof positive that not all Indigenous Australians represent or acknowledge the history of their peoples. They speak for themselves yes, but not for the First Nations of this country.

A Millwarparra man has said he did not know what the Voice to Parliament was when he was filmed reading anti-Voice sentiments that were written for him.

Source: Mundine, Price falsely claim Millwarparra man as Vincent Lingiari’s grandson to push No campaign | SBS NITV