Luke Pearson

The govt isn’t ’failing to close the gap’ they are succeeding in creating the impression that they are trying to close the gap while ignoring all the evidence of what should be done to actually close it.

And, just to be clear, the actual announcements are still 3/5 of fuck all in the scheme of what is needed

but the Daily Mail, for shits and giggles and to further incite racism against Indigenous people, used ‘double it again’ as the pull quote in the heading to imply that all Indigenous expenditure is being ‘doubled again’, even though it was never doubled in the first damn place.

So, Albanese said that they will double the number of jobs from the Remote Jobs and Economic Development program to over 1500 by 2027 and then ‘double it again’ by 2030,

"The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism" Huey Newton

“the function of racism is none other than to provide a rationalisation of the existing state of affairs so as to make it appear to be a lawfully instituted order” (Bourdieu, 1961, p. 133)

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It appears you no longer have the right to protest | First Dog on the Moon Police charged at people who could not flee due to being kettled. As always police say that is not what happened

No more protesting thanks, that's it wrap it up it's not cohesive. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Sophie Scamps MP:
"At the very time the Government is welcoming President Herzog into Parliament House, with the entrance being officially lined with Israeli flags, Israel is moving to extend the illegal occupation of the West Bank thus undermining the hope for a two-state solution."

Whenever we have a Labor govt I invariably end up feeling like Labor is England and Liberal is all the other countries that could have hypothetically invaded and… you get it.

NSW Police Minister saying to the people please don't antagonise the cops by, you know, exercising your basic human rights

PM defends decision to invite Herzog to Australia Nick Newling Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has backed his decision to invite Israeli President Isaac Herzog to Australia, saying it was appropriate to allow the Jewish community to mourn with the leader. "He was [invited] because he's the head of state. He's the equivalent of the governor-general, and when the Jewish community asked for their head of state to visit. I think it is appropriate that people be allowed to mourn and to do so respectfully," Albanese told Triple M radio in Hobart.

This is maddening nonsense from Albanese.

Herzog is the President of *Israel*. He’s not the “head of state” for Jews.

This transformation of Jews into some convenient monolith is perverse.

‘Man calls neo-nazi a racist’ is quite possibly the loosest excuse to platform a nazi and pass it off as news that I have ever seen.

Does being from a wealthy family also buy you the generous differentiation of be a ‘neo-nazi associate’ rather than just being a neo-nazi?

You don’t win social cohesion with state sponsored violence

This was planned. And Chris Minns owns it. - Michael West NSW Police have assaulted dozens of peace protestors who gathered to protest the visit by Israeli president Isaac Herzog to Australia.

“There were roughly 500 police deployed at Town Hall and an estimated 3,000 across the CBD. This scale was not accidental. It was a show of force. Police created the disorder they later claimed to suppress. This tactic is known. It is taught. It is deliberate.”

michaelwest.com.au/this-was-pla...

Then renamed everything after English ppl and places, introduced English animals and farming techniques that were entirely unsuited for the country, refused to learn the local languages or cultures, and then waged war on the people and the country for the next 200 years. That’s the real Aussie way.

“If you pine for where you came from, and say I really want Australia to be just like the shithole I came from. You go back there.”

Yeah, not like the ‘real Australians’. The ones who came here from England and complained relentlessly about how much it was not like England.

Just so we’re clear:

Protesting a genocide and the invite of a man credibly accused of war crimes = unacceptable violence

Police beating and detaining said protestors = justified violence

When we speak up against injustice we are being ‘divisive’.

When they want ‘social cohesion’ they employ state violence.

Additional footage shows Australian police using force against other protesters:

Video: David Shoebridge via X (@DavidShoebridge)

Video shows a man pinned to the ground as Australian police strike him repeatedly during an arrest. The man appears already subdued as blows continue. The incident occurred at protests in Sydney against Israeli President Isaac Herzog.

Video: Jared Kimpton via X (@jared_kimpton)

Extraordinary footage. Police pulling off people engaged in peaceful prayer.

I see no substantive difference between ‘From the river to the sea’ and ‘Always was, always be’… and I suspect that many of the people who want one banned would happily ban the other.

We must stop peace protesters from terrorising our war criminal guests

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I’ve been thinking about how often we say that’ institutional racism isn’t reliant on intent’, which is true. At the same time, it seems relevant to note that there are numerous institutions who intentionally perpetuate and incite racism as part of their core business… and that business is booming.

It isn't an ethical double standard, it's a lack of ethics entirely.

Their outrage isn't determined by the severity of an event. It is determined by which events can be exploited to further their political and economic agendas.

"Why aren't media as outraged about the Perth bomb attack as there were over the Bondi shootings?"

Dude, they aren't even as outraged as they were when Adam Goodes threw an imaginary boomerang.