History will not look kindly on Peter Dutton, who this week danced on the grave of the Uluru Statement from the Heart

Dutton’s gloating has been breathtaking in its callousness, his weaponisation distressing in its cruelty. With Indigenous leaders in silent mourning, the Coalition has spent the week trying to force Labor to walk away from truth-telling and treaty as well.

Source: Twisting the knife | The Monthly

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Readers can continue their activism with a new focus after the disturbing results of the Voice referendum. History may soon exonerate Anthony Albanese for his commitment to failed constitutional change. Perhaps this result can be a springboard for pragmatic action to address the wider economic, social and cultural divides in Australia. There will be little grassroots resistance to these commitments which is what the electorate expects from a Labor government.

Source: Postscript on the 2023 Referendum: Let Political Risk-Taking and Responsible Activism Distract from the Profound Negativity of Voice Result – » The Australian Independent Media Network

50% of 2.3M people in Gaza are children the majority of the remainder are Elderly. 48% of what’s left are unemployed it is and has been a prison camp blockaded for 16 years Israel is the jailkeeper conducting Collective Punishment in the most brutal way.

“Where is the outrage we saw when Israeli children were killed?” asked a co-founder of IfNotNow.

Source: Israeli Airstrikes Have Killed Over 320 Children in Gaza: Health Ministry

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It began at $40 B then dropped to $ 30 B the claim by No Campaigners money wasted on Indigenous Australians. However, $26 B was what Indigenous Australians would have received for simply being ordinary Australian citizens from a pool of $550 B. The No campaign exaggerated that 6% was an outrageous exception.

$4 B was allocated for their special needs which now Dutton and Price claim was wasted and needs to be strictly audited. Yes, it sounds like a demand for a Robodebt audit.  Well, it certainly wasn’t wasted by Indigenous Australians or the ALP was it!!

But now Dutton says an audit is needed because Ken Wyatt who was Indigenous, supported Yes and resigned from politics was incompetent. While Price is maintaining special allocations or an Indigenous Affairs Dept was never needed anyway.  More efficient Government supervision is what is required for a population of which some 80% live below or on the edge of poverty and are worse off than the disabled due to a systemic disregard and lack of opportunity.

The idea of an audit smells exactly like LNP “victim blaming” again. Bill Shorten found organized fraud and misappropriation not among the clients but by the NDIS providers. That it was intentionally disregarded to politically bankrupt the service. Dutton is claiming fraud or incompetence in the Aboriginal Affairs dept. Well, a report just released into Immigration suggested under his watch, organized crime took over and ran amok in the Dept while he sat back and did nothing. The LNP it seems did little or nothing in the way of service in any Ministerial sector of government. Nothing over their nine years but tripled the nation’s dept and are now claiming they alone are, and always were Australia’s better money managers.

Who for a moment believes that Boomgate Racist Dutton has changed his spots?

Wyatt doesn’t say it, but he might as well have: claiming that yet another audit will fix this, from the party that just conducted two dozen of them, is, as the witticism goes, the definition of insanity. But it doesn’t matter to Price and co whether these arguments make sense – only that voters feel a sense of personal aggrievement at the money being spent – wasted – on Indigenous Australians. There is no doubt a small amount of money in this area is being misspent, as it is many areas of government policy, and sometimes for personal or political gain. But as Uluru statement architect Megan Davis wrote on social media this morning, “the ‘audit’ response is status quo”, which is exactly what “No” seeks to maintain.”

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

Drivers of Inflation Profit Gouging

Australia’s largest supermarkets are posting billion-dollar profits while their employees are struggling to pay rent. Now, a national strike of supermarket workers is pushing back.

Source: Workers Are Striking at Australia’s Supermarket Duopoly

The latest Newspoll 24/9/2924:

Federal 2 Party Preferred: ALP 54 (+1) L/NP 46 (-1)

Preferred PM: Albanese 50 (0) Dutton 30 (-1)

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DeSantis is Governing for himself the Presidency but not his State of Florida,

But in a few months, when he finally pulls the plug on his presidential campaign, he’ll have to return to our hot, sweaty, mosquito-infested state full of flooded streets and toxic algae blooms. He’ll have to face up to his betrayal of the people who looked to him for leadership. I hope he realizes then that those 30 pieces of silver he collected in Texas for his campaign were far too cheap a price for his integrity.

Source: DeSantis betrays Florida, Insists the Solution to Climate Change is Burning more Fossil Fuels

With its misinformation and mistruths, News Corp has a stranglehold on Australian democracy that needs to be held to account by a royal commission, writes Belinda Jones.

Source: Crackdown on News Corp urgently needed to save our democracy

By guest columnist Tess Lawrence It may be premature to write Emeritus Chairman Rupert Murdoch’s epitaph now that he’s ostensibly handed the keys of his media empire to his favoured scion and heir, Lachlan. Bubba Lachie, you will recall, is the infantile drongo recently forced to payout on a rather silly defamation action against our…

Source: Murdoch: King Lear or Citizen Kane? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Indigenous Australians call her and Warren Mundine “Plastic Blacks”. They are Black. But they are the Ken and Barbie trophies of Dutton’s white world making false claims about who elected them and who they represent. Indigenous Australians have not elected either of these two to speak for them in any capacity yet they get the mainstream media attention that the majority of Indigenous Australians don’t. Stan Grant and Adam Goodes have all but been silenced Marcia trampled and Noel ignored. Even the Indigenous Australians who want “Treaties Now” and no Voice are getting greater attention despite the fact they aren’t the majority.

The conservative senator was elected thanks to suburban voters in Darwin and Alice Springs not remote communities she aims to champion

Source: Jacinta Price claims to represent NT’s Indigenous communities but the data suggests otherwise | Jon Faine | The Guardian

As far as Rowan Dean and Andrew Bolt are concerned this remains a “hoax”

Extreme heat is one of the most direct and measurable shocks from climate change and one of the deadliest, according to the independent Climate Council.

The unseasonably hot and dry conditions are being felt across southern Australia, with temperatures peaking at 8C-16C above average across much of South Australia, NSW and Victoria.

Source: ‘Barrelling towards catastrophe’ as extreme heat flares

I’ve said “Sorry”. But being white, raised, socialized, and immersed in Australian culture I found myself on the racist spectrum, a continuum call it what you like I’m part unintentionally racist. I’ve ignorantly absorbed some of the cultural myths that have given rise to and supported institutionalized patterns of racist behavior and taken them on board through ignorance and disregard, have accepted them as normal. I need to do battle with the errors in my social psychology and just saying sorry isn’t good enough and needs to be joined with a resounding YES for change in the way this nation does things. Change that says  “I’ve listened and I’ve heard you” and “You’re right and my doing it is the beginning of a better Australia”

I spent a short time in Kunanarra my motel room was directly in front of the Primary school’s basketball courts. It was recess and what I witnessed was young kids interacting seemingly without any racial division. In my minds eye the kids were playing without prejudice the scene seemed colorless and it stood out. By the time I had driven about the town I had witnessed the harsh reality of two cities whose biggest buildings were occupied by major government Institutions. the Police Station, the Welfare Dept, and the supermarket a complete shadow cast over what I’d always been told was the “Lucky Country”.

I was gobsmacked when I overheard a retailer ring the police requesting they remove the “flower pots” from his very large shaded verandah. Those “pots” were some half-dozed aged indigenous Aussies looking for the cover,for shade from the intense heat of the Kimberly sun. On the fringe of Kunnarra, I saw the worst communal poverty I’d ever seen in Australia totally black. It spoke to the division that those young children I saw would come to expect as normal as time passed and inevitably be blamed on them as a “lifestyle choice” “the poverty of their culture” by a Racist Australia still saying ” Vote No today after 240 years of shame” simply because that’s the way history told us it’s always been. Yes is a first step my  Australia needs to take to accept a Universal Bill of Human Rights sorely lacking in this country and with an LNP who wants to rid us of even the United Nations Australian Human Rights Commission and the Racial Discrimination Act.

Racism comes in as many forms as there are people to both carry it out, whether knowingly or not, and to experience it.

I’m no longer five years old and subject to the blows that were doled out then. So, how is it that I, a middle-aged woman with career success living a life far more secure than that of many, can be feeling so reduced to nothingness when I have not been targeted as others have?

My colleague Stan Grant, the formidable Professor Marcia Langton, and of course, the great Adam Goodes, just to name a few whose stories we’ve heard.

Source: We don’t know what October 14 will bring — but for many the Voice debate has already stirred up a hidden war – ABC News

For the US and its interest in moving to potentially confront China over the Taiwan straits issue, disengage from the Middle East “forever wars,” as a result of the perceived lack of strategic importance, it seems that to not get a deal with Saudi Arabia will cost more economically, politically, and strategically now more than ever.

Source: As US drags out Israel Normalization Deal with Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Drifts toward China

Listening is a radical change that’s never been guaranteed by governments for 240 years. It’s Time to say Yes.

• Institutionalized racism has sabotaged respectful listening to First Nations perspectives.

Source:  The Guardian

Yes Group Links – Indigenous Australia

No group links- Global

Dr Jeremy Walker, a lecturer of political studies at the University of Technology Sydney, alleges No campaign disinformation is linked to the Atlas Network, a global network of right-wing think tanks and lobby groups that was partly funded by the billionaires Charles and David Koch.

The multibillionaire brothers were (David is now deceased) co-owners of Koch Industries, a conglomerate with interests in petroleum and chemicals, and have been credited with dragging American politics to the right by funding anti-union politicians.

Atlas was described this week by the New Republic as a “shadowy global network” with “powerful allies in the oil, gas, and extractive industries”.

The global network of organisations has previously been funded by the tobacco industry and includes LibertyWorks, an Australian activist group chaired by No campaign frontman Warren Mundine.

LibertyWorks reportedly owed the government more than $170,000 for failed legal cases brought against COVID-19 restrictions.

Advance Australia was contacted for comment.

Voters this week received text messages from Fair Australia’s other lead spokesperson, NT Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price calling the Voice “risky, unknown and divisive” and containing a link to a Liberal Party-run website for casting postal votes on the referendum.

Senator Price’s office did not respond to a request for comment.

Text messages from Fair Australia’s lead spokesperson, NT Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price calling the Voice “risky, unknown and divisive”.

Source: Voice falsehoods in focus as legal storm brews

The ruling class, like ruling classes throughout history, seek to keep the poor and oppressed uneducated for a reason. They do not want those cast aside by society to be given the language, concepts and intellectual tools to fight back.

Source: Chris Hedges: The Pedagogy of Power

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The Right fosters statements but they’re not from the heart

The Right is obsessed with gender. This deep paranoia comes out of America and international far right movements. It harms straight people and LGBTQIA+ people differently, and we need to fight it before our copycat Right entrenches it here too.

Source: Channel 7 fostering fascist politics – Pearls and Irritations

Wait a second!

Lisa Visentin’s headline in The Age and SMH says Wheatly’s son and Farnham PERMIT The Voice to be used when they Sold it.

Our media are celebrating the event as if it were a kind-hearted donation when like Colonists they’re making money off the backs of black people. The song might be a great choice but what we’re witnessing is an opportunistic act of destitution capitalism and not generosity here.

“It’s the first time Farnham has allowed his 1986 hit to be used in a commercial having agreed to license it for an undisclosed sum to the Yes campaign outfit Uluru Dialogue. He hoped allowing the song to support a Yes vote would help make the case for the constitutional change”

The Australian music legend has taken the rare step of licensing his iconic song You’re the Voice for a television ad for the Yes campaign.

Source: Voice to parliament: John Farnham permits his iconic song to front Yes campaign ad

How does the No campaign propose to fix the problems faced by Indigenous people in this country?

Source: Voice to parliament: What are the No campaign’s alternative ideas?

It’s only Politics no matter what you do or have done.

‘I Could … Shoot Somebody, And I Wouldn’t Lose Any Voters’

That’s Trump’s vision Laws aren’t there for him and never have been

This is not how elected officials should govern with a tit-for-tat against those who hold a person accountable. It’s mind-blowing that a man facing 91 charges, indicted four times, and impeached twice is calling the shots for the Republican party. Fucking amazing.

Source: Trump To GOP On Biden: ‘IMPEACH The BUM. THEY DID IT TO US!’ | Crooks and Liars

One might argue that currently, Israel is the most anti-Semitic Nation. So much so it shames Judaism with its crimes against humanity. More and more Jews are protesting and saying “Israel isn’t us”

As a global community, we must take the time to understand the conditions that allowed hatred, racially fuelled bias and mass violence to take effect resulting in the Holocaust. By understanding the conditions leading to the atrocities of the Holocaust, we can gain insight into how and, importantly, when to act to mitigate such atrocities in the future.

Source: It all starts with words: How Ye’s comments are fuelling age old antisemitism and the rise of hatred – Missing Perspectives

Advance, and FA, are fronted by Peter Dutton’s hand-picked shadow minister for Indigenous Australians, Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price. Also connected to the FA campaign is Tony Abbott, who is an adviser to Advance – the group having unsuccessfully defended him in his then North Shore electorate of Warringah in 2019.

Source: What are ‘Advance’ and ‘Fair Australia’, and why are they spearheading the ‘no’ campaign on the Voice?

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Source: Commonwealth Bank earnings top $10 billion as interest rate rises boost profit margins – ABC News