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Showing posts with label Values. Show all posts
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Sunday, 29 December 2013
Saturday, 18 August 2012
Tony takes on Tony - Windsor and Abbott - not letting Abbott off the hook
17 August 2012
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A MESSAGE FOR TONY
There has been a distinct step up in criticism of Tony Abbott this week. Following Laura Tingle last Friday, there have been strongly worded articles by Tim Colebatch, Dennis Atkins, Mark Latham and Barrie Cassidy, amongst others.
NICK FEIK, EDITORCassidy notes that 'the media' rarely pull Abbott up for his inconsistencies, and have generally failed to hold him to account in the way they have previous Opposition leaders. It is widely agreed he has been on shaky ground when talking about anything other than the carbon tax or boat people. And the carbon tax attacks are undoubtedly wearing thin, especially to Tony Windsor. He launched this enthusiastic attack on Abbott in Parliament yesterday. Notably, the News Limited newspapers have so far refrained from the full-scale critiques of Abbott's performance. As long as this continues, the other criticisms are unlikely to faze Abbott's Opposition colleagues. And support for Abbott has come from an unlikely source this morning. Courtesy of Fairfax and Spectator Australia comes the most unintentionally funny piece of political commentary of recent months, by the infamous Godwin Grech. | ||
Wednesday, 1 August 2012
Swanny - our champion Treasurer - delivers the 2012 John Button Lecture with a pastiche of Springsteen & The Chisels thrown in
Well, Networkers, I certainly won't be there -
in spite of being a major Swanny fan.
The price is way beyond the bounds of an Aged Pension budget.
I assume it is thoroughly booked out by now.
And, if you want to really pretend you are there,
sit back with a cuppa and a bikky and read this:
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Friday, 27 January 2012
AUSTRALIA DAY IN BLACK AND WHITE
The article below is by Tess Lawrence and is re-posted, with permission, from the Independent Australia website. I hope Networkers will pop over there to follow up on the comments to Tess's article. Tess has kindly published my previous post in the comments section as well. And I hope you too will become a regular reader of IA.
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AUSTRALIA DAY IN BLACK AND WHITE
by contributing editor-at-large Tess Lawrence
“Many of our people call it invasion day,” said Mr Mick Dodson, a professor of law at the Australian National University. “To many indigenous Australians, in fact, most indigenous Australians, it really reflects the day in which our world came crashing down.”
When Mick Dodson uttered those words in 2009, after being named Australian of the Year, he addressed the echidna in the outback room. I’m not the only Australian that empathises with him and like thinkers.
We have become so used to having a moribund Federal Parliament that has long divested itself of any concern, or even affection, for its people, but instead has morphed into a wasteland of toxic factions and fetid egos whose venal pursuit of power for power’s sake has reduced our nation’s governance to political squalor and hypocrisy.
This year we celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy set up on the grounds of the old Parliament House in Canberra. It is a sacred vigil.
The Tent Embassy has a nobility, patriotic passion and sense of purpose that is completely lacking in The Big House.
Its Coat of Arms and Constitution has no need for royal decree, since the people themselves have decreed it and declared it.
It does not buy and sell speakers and squelchers of the House. Its Ambassadors do not sit in high chairs or high dudgeon.
The Tent Embassy seeks equality not superiority. It seeks recognition that this nation was occupied by aborigines when the first white boat people arrived in their tens, then hundreds, then thousands and now millions and became the master race through brute and gentler force, imposing their language, their religion and their diseases — and whatever else…
It is a disgrace that we have yet to acknowledge the original inhabitants of our Great Southern Land in our Constitution. I say that, as I write, in the midst of much back patting and back stabbing and nonsensical puffery surrounding the issue.
It is more than a disgrace that we have no Treaty in place and I have long felt this.
I feel we will remain an illegitimate nation until we are honourable enough to do the right thing.
In February 2008, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd wrote himself indelibly into Australian history when he said Sorry. Perhaps we will have to wait for the Gillard FM (Faceless Men) Coup to be reversed for him to negotiate a Treaty.
Certainly, of all the big noters and the big notaries in the Labor Party – the big talkers and the big hawkers – Kevin Rudd came the closest to effecting a Treaty. He might yet get the chance to extend his historical paragraph.
Today, Independent Australia republishes an article I wrote for Planet Oz Media in 2009 about the Dodson Affair. Tragically, so little has changed in the years since. Dodson was seen by some to be ungrateful and ungracious when he made his comments — and yet, I rejoice that other Australians of the Year have since voiced their passions and beliefs and told it like it is, without marinating in spin or ingratiation.
It’s the Australia that I once knew and still love. Our Governments can reduce us to political Shamocracy, but We the People can still act on behalf of, and with, our communities and refuse to be threatened into silence or brutalised by corporations into submission.
AUSTRALIA DAY OR LOSTRALIA DAY?
G’day Australia. Do most of us really believe that it’s the right thing to celebrate Australia Day on the anniversary of a date when a bunch of whiteys preposterously plonked a Union Jackboot in the sand and declared the land unoccupied, when they had clearly seen a bunch of black fellows peeping through the gum leaves.
Smacks of a rip-off to me. Come off it, sport, how UNaustralian is that, mate?! Fair suck of the saveloy our gracious king.
And what’s up with ‘lil Kev. When he was Kevin 007 he said ‘Sorry’ for Gawd’s sake. Now he’s morphed into Kevin 09, long lost blue blood brother to one John Winston Howard, hogging the mike and telling us all the answer is an emphatic ‘ NO! ‘to any thought of moving the date for
Australia Day to a more appropriate ‘time of the month’ or year.
I was rather disturbed at his attitude and his nobody language. How can Kev go on about democracy and freedom of speech and in the same breath dictate to that big black upstart, the man with the hat, and his like, that the date WILL NOT be moved. Who said? You’re an elected servant of the people, Kev. The Great Unwashed. You might be removed at the next election, mate, for all you know. And what’s up with the drongo Supposition agreeing with him?
Not a good thing to say ‘never’ in politics, Kev. We of the never never reckon you could find yourself eating someone else’s turds. I’m with Professor Mick Dodson, Australian of the Year – and
Ron Barassi and the apparent minority to which I belong, that believes in Australia Day – but not its date.
As it stands, it’s a day for dancing alright; dancing on the collective grave of the inhabitants of the First Nation. You’ve lost me on this one Kev. Australia Day is invasion day — Lostralia.
What’s more, Kev, and this is neither threat nor prophecy (in case you’re thinking of issuing any ridgydidge fridge magnets to report any Australia Day insurgents), if you keep this up you could get a pair of thongs thrown at you at your next press conference.
A.D. or B.C.?
Should A.D. (Australia Day) better reflect B.C. (before Cook)? I say yes. I say change — not the short change that keeps coming to indigenous Australians.
Tough if it’s an inconvenience to change the date, or to seriously think about what we are doing to our indigenous brethren. All the platitudes in the gin-joints of the world mean nothing if we are incapable of empathy on this matter.
In truth this country was ‘founded’ on a lie. It was not ‘terra nullius’; but to a people that considered itself the master race of the universe, blacks were not humans. Bungs didn’t count.
Do they now, Kev? Not really. Neither in fact; nor in law. Not the white man’s lore. Not the King’s Law. Nor the white Queen’s Law. Nor, it seems, do we want them contributing to public debate and impacting upon the outcomes of those debates.
A bit of shiny bling…
…to pin on their diseased and diabetic chests
We orchestrated their past and we’ll orchestrate their future. We know what’s good for them.
Say ‘Sorry’, keep them happy, give them a bit of shiny bling to pin on their diseased diabetic chests.
Better hold on the toxic sugar. And the rabid 100% alcohol-proof fences.
Even if they are on the dole forever, their life span is not as long as ours, so whiteys on the dole forever can still enjoy the dole life plan for much longer. In a way, their early deaths represent considerable saving to the public purse. Come to think of it, then, this means it is not economically viable for us to improve their health.
They wouldn’t work in an iron ore lung…
They wouldn’t work in an iron-ore lung anyway.
There are two types of black deaths in custody. There are your traditional black deaths in custody: go alive into a prison cell, come out dead — Aunties wailing and tearing their hearts and hair out.
You know the scenario. They make such a bloody songline and dance about it.
Then there’s the other black deaths in custody. They now run into their thousands.
They’re the black deaths that have taken place since they’ve been in custody of the wider community. Our community. In our political custody and all that entails. That is, the sum total of all of us since white foot first trod heavy upon this Great Southern Land.
Once, in 1967, white and whiteish folks voted for aborigines to be counted in the national census.
What if we turned the tablelands on that? Do you think we could ask indigenous Australians to participate in a referendum about the date on which we should celebrate Australia Day? Could they be trusted with such political gravitas? Is that too big a word for them, Kev?
You probably want to keep them away from the political gravy train. Look at what happened to ATSICK. I mean, you wouldn’t want them handling a Wheat Board or, say, be Victoria’s Minister for Transport, Lynne Kosky, or anything like that.
Reckonciliation — Reconciliation
And you’d have to keep them away from plonk, glue and petrol wouldn’t you, Kev? Thenthey might be able to handle it. You’d have to keep them away from parliamentary dining rooms otherwise all their rellies would be eating there and complaining theirservings weren’t big enough.
Have you seen how they scoff their tucker? As if there’s no tomorrow. A short tomorrow, granted — but, look, they do get everything just handed to them on a platter. They get handouts and handsup and handshakes — and then they paint all those hands and plant them in the ground. And then have the cheek to give us their hand in wreckonciliation … oops! Reconciliation, I mean.
But that’s not all. They might have altercations on a night out with the iguanas, which they like to bake over an open fire. And you’d have to ban them from going overseas and representing us as diplomats because they’ll just get on the booze — they could also lose their daks, gawd love’em; but they do wear those red nappy things when they’re dancing, so it would probably be alright in the long run.
Better still Uncle Kev, keep them away from any real participation in political change. No, I like
the way you stood up to Professor Mick — have you done a bio authenticity check on him? What’s he profess to be a Professor of, ’eh?
We stole this land. Dress it up in laws and legislation as much as you like. We all continue to collude in this theft. As long as we delay Reconciliation and a Treaty, we remain accomplices.
It’s not right. It’s not fair. It’s not justice. We can’t undo the past. But we should be honest enough to acknowledge it.
Obama spells a Mabo backwards
I love this country. Like many of us who travel overseas, I am perplexed at the nostalgia and sentiment that intoxicate the brain when away from her. It is surely a spiritual bond and not the privilege of one skin colour alone. The power comes from her — and not those who walk upon her; sometimes walk all over her.
People keep asking if there’s an Obama type of fellow out there amongst our indigenous folk. Fat chance. You wouldn’t consider Mick or Noel would you? Don’t even think about a black sheila.
Unless it’s that Catherine the Great sprinter, the one who’s got ‘Salome’ as one of her middle names,
strewth! That’s a bible name. Cheek of it. She must be well up herself, with a surname like
Freeman. I reckon she could be a closet Muslim. Think about it, Salome………
She was given a bogong wasn’t she — an OAM I think. It’s that bling thing again with them.
And she won a gold medal in the Olympics desperately trying to ingratiate herself to us.
Trying to be whiter than white. As for her draping their flag around herself like that, well, with a middle name like Salome what do you expect ?
I thought she’d breakdance into the dance of the Five Veils, it being the Olympics and all. It was different when our Dawn nicked the Aussie flag — that’s more in keeping with our tradition and idiom; plus our Dawn’s got the advantage of being white. But look, getting back to skin colour, of course it matters. For a start, some of them are that white they only claim to be black so they can get the benefits.
Funny that Obama spells A Mabo backwards. I reckon that’s a sign. Black Magic. Also, some of them blacks are muslims like Obama. Did you ever hear of anything so ridiculous. What’s wrong with The Dreamtime? Their own culture not good enough for them? Rainbow serpents and Muslims. Didge in one hand — Koran in the other. What’s going on there? They should be facing Uluru, not Mecca; the Southern Cross, not Saudi Arabia.
I dunno, Kev, I think I’ve just about talked myself out of it now. Yeah, keep Invasion Day as Australia Day. After all, there’s more of us than them. Yo, whiteys rule! And don’t forget, they’re a dying race. As long as we go on as we are, soon there won’t be a race problem. They’ll die out. They’ve brought it upon themselves.
Geezus, they didn’t even put up a decent fight. And when you think about it, they may have lost their country but look at all they’ve gained. We brought them Civilisation! We took them out of the
Stone age. They put themselves into the Stoned age. We give them voting rights. They want Land Rights. They want equal rights. They make us feel like guests in our own country.
You can’t build a dunny on a dung heap without them claiming it’s sacred land and demanding billions of Australia Day medals. The only mistake we made was when we didn’t follow the example of our own white European ancestors. We didn’t learn from our own history. After all, did not the Dutch buy Manhattan for 60 guilders, if not baubles and beads, from the local red Indian savages. After all, our mob couldn’t read or write — still can’t. Anyway, even if we had’ve given them a few bob, where were they going to spend it ? They hadn’t even invented money. No shops. No milkbars. No malls.
Says it all, dunnit? I rest my slab.
Sunday, 15 January 2012
Max Dulumunmun Harrison and My People's Dreaming. Uncle Max is doing it again, still.
Uncle Max is doing it again.
If you live somewhere in that triangle
between Canberra, the South Coast and Sydney
and you are interested in matters Aboriginal and indigenous life and style,
you are bound to come across Uncle Max.
Missed out on that opportunity so far?
Now is your chance.
Get ye hither and fill in the booking form.
Yes, NOW!
Tuesday, 27 December 2011
Stephanie Dowrick says it for me on Asylum Seekers
From here
Deadlock on asylum issue strikes at the heart
Standing firm ... Tony Abbott. Photo: Glen McCurtayne
Dear Tony Abbott,
Barely a week ago, as most of us were preparing for Christmas, the media brought news of the fate of more people seeking safety in Australia.
This time the numbers of the dead were more startling, more disturbing. And it's not just the numbers. The agony of the few survivors reminds us starkly how increasingly impossible it is to just stand by.
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The media have also been telling us that you have been hesitating to compromise on more compassionate responses, within Australia or overseas. Perhaps it's the idea of co-operating with a government you despise that holds you back?
Yet we need you to co-operate because the story of asylum seeking is part of our national story, too. This is less because we are largely a nation of immigrants than because our governments - including those of your own Coalition - have involved us in some of the cataclysmic events that have led to this profound disruption in countless lives.
However cautious each national government must be about who can live within its borders and who cannot, this is a global issue as pressing as any other this century. And it is not going away. What we are witnessing is a 21st-century tragedy with women, men and children in their hundreds of thousands needing a place to call home.
You know, as do we, that people do not risk their lives and their children's lives because they want to be free to do late-night shopping at Kmart. They leave everything that is familiar and dear to them because their lives have been overtaken by fear. Even their fear of the deadly travel to unwelcoming countries is self-evidently less than their fear of what ''home'' has become.
Asylum seekers are largely fleeing social violence, including war. Our governments have made us complicit in some of those horrors.
Rather than limiting our national involvement to aid and peace-keeping forces, or to more intelligently supporting global and local efforts to resolve complex social divisions peacefully, Australia has participated in dangerously isolating Iran, and in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that have displaced countless people whose need for respect, safety and shelter is probably much like our own.
As we continue to gather around laden tables, you might also agree that we have failed adequately to meet the global challenges faced by those fleeing hunger, particularly in Africa. Far fewer of those refugees or asylum seekers think of Australia as a possible haven, but they are also part of our story.
Living on the margins and in poverty, with all the dangers to health, spirit and life that such poverty implies, they must endure the now-familiar contempt of millions who do have a place to return to at the end of their day.
Like many of the asylum seekers looking towards Australia, those fleeing Africa are largely funded by their families out of a collective purse. Their fear of disappointing those left behind can only be imagined.
Like many coming towards Australia in perilous boats, they were, presumably, meant to carry the hopes of those left behind. How could they easily admit that this journey has taken them only to more misery, or that the so-called promised lands of plenty offer them neither safety nor hope?
Hope, as you would know, is a currency vital to the human spirit. Western governments - and opposition parties - have entrenched policies that seek to deflect asylum seekers by withdrawing most meaningful notions of ''asylum'' and by denying hope.
That the world's asylum seekers nevertheless continue to hope is testimony to the human spirit. It is also heartbreaking.
Mr Abbott, I am just one voice among many thousands saying that the political ''deadlock'' on this matter is more than deadly. Again and again, I hear other Australians say there is no more time to waste. Many of us see this as a global issue in which Australia's ''problem'' is proportionately less than that of almost any other wealthy nation. We see this as a vital local issue too, where our national identity as people of a fair go hangs precariously.
Some might argue that a lack of co-operation between you and the Prime Minister and her government is literally killing people.
However you interpret it, there has to be a better way: a better way to understand the causes of this vast 21st-century upheaval. And a far better way to address, with decency and compassion, its most urgent effects.
Thursday, 6 October 2011
THE OCCUPY WALL STREET MOVEMENT ... coming to somewhere in Australia near you
I am sure that even people who are not on Twitter have heard of #OccupyWallStreet and the variations of it that have sprung up across the USA and Canada. Now, comes a declaration from here. I am sure that what is happening in the USA will, more than likely, find itself replicated in Australia in spite of economic conditions being less severe than those experienced in the USA.
People are tired -
People are tired -
- of the wealthy having a dominant say and getting their way
- of insurance companies who won't pay up when natural disaster strikes
- of career minded politicians across all parties who are poll and business driven - not people sensitive
- of in your face alcohol, gambling and sexual services
- of the little losses of amenity in life eroding what was once a carefree Australian life
Please Networkers, feel free to add to the list of what you are tired of and what would get you off your behinds to protest outside a bank, a parliament, council offices, corporate establishments. The list above is just to get you started.
Declaration of the Occupation of
New York City
What follows is the first official, collective statement of the protesters in Zuccotti Park:
As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies.
As one people, united, we acknowledge the reality: that the future of the human race requires the cooperation of its members; that our system must protect our rights, and upon corruption of that system, it is up to the individuals to protect their own rights, and those of their neighbors; that a democratic government derives its just power from the people, but corporations do not seek consent to extract wealth from the people and the Earth; and that no true democracy is attainable when the process is determined by economic power. We come to you at a time when corporations, which place profit over people, self-interest over justice, and oppression over equality, run our governments. We have peaceably assembled here, as is our right, to let these facts be known.
- They have taken our houses through an illegal foreclosure process, despite not having the original mortgage.
- They have taken bailouts from taxpayers with impunity, and continue to give Executives exorbitant bonuses.
- They have perpetuated inequality and discrimination in the workplace based on age, the color of one's skin, sex, gender identity and sexual orientation.
- They have poisoned the food supply through negligence, and undermined the farming system through monopolization.
- They have profited off of the torture, confinement, and cruel treatment of countless animals, and actively hide these practices.
- They have continuously sought to strip employees of the right to negotiate for better pay and safer working conditions.
- They have held students hostage with tens of thousands of dollars of debt on education, which is itself a human right.
- They have consistently outsourced labor and used that outsourcing as leverage to cut workers’ healthcare and pay.
- They have influenced the courts to achieve the same rights as people, with none of the culpability or responsibility.
- They have spent millions of dollars on legal teams that look for ways to get them out of contracts in regards to health insurance.
- They have sold our privacy as a commodity.
- They have used the military and police force to prevent freedom of the press.
- They have deliberately declined to recall faulty products endangering lives in pursuit of profit.
- They determine economic policy, despite the catastrophic failures their policies have produced and continue to produce.
- They have donated large sums of money to politicians, who are responsible for regulating them.
- They continue to block alternate forms of energy to keep us dependent on oil.
- They continue to block generic forms of medicine that could save people’s lives or provide relief in order to protect investments that have already turned a substantial profit.
- They have purposely covered up oil spills, accidents, faulty bookkeeping, and inactive ingredients in pursuit of profit.
- They purposefully keep people misinformed and fearful through their control of the media.
- They have accepted private contracts to murder prisoners even when presented with serious doubts about their guilt.
- They have perpetuated colonialism at home and abroad.
- They have participated in the torture and murder of innocent civilians overseas.
- They continue to create weapons of mass destruction in order to receive government contracts.*
To the people of the world, We, the New York City General Assembly occupying Wall Street in Liberty Square, urge you to assert your power.
Exercise your right to peaceably assemble; occupy public space; create a process to address the problems we face, and generate solutions accessible to everyone.
To all communities that take action and form groups in the spirit of direct democracy, we offer support, documentation, and all of the resources at our disposal.
Join us and make your voices heard!
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Make a secure, tax-deductible donation to NationofChange today, and help sustain this vital service to the community.
Wednesday, 12 January 2011
Queensland is going under: and this blog too, for a while.
I have been quiet - but can't help it.
This picture says it all.
Queensland is my home state - and I am far from it.
But my rellies and friends are there.
And I am sad for them and for Queensland.
Can't blog at the moment.
Blogging seems to be a pointless pursuit
while people are dying, homes are destroyed,
and people and animals are being evacuated.
When its all over will be time enough to start again.
Meanwhile, my heart is too sad.
Monday, 10 January 2011
Wednesday, 13 October 2010
Get the message? Got the values?
I know some Networkers have a bias against Coca-Cola. Some have a bias against stuff connected to Bill Gates. However, Networkers, I do ask that you clear your mind to listen to Melissa French Gates as she looks at how Coca-Cola does business and how that methodology might benefit development work.
I suggest, Networkers, that you take those principles beyond merely development work but into any sphere of community activity where you might be trying to get a message out and across to influence people, their attitudes and behaviours.
I do wish to insert some broader understanding into Ms Gates' exposition - and it comes from the inimitable George Monbiot. For both the video above and George's piece below, I am indebted to the Twitterverse. George has written on the values of everything. He outlines what drives us, what motivates us.
George gives a chilling example:
Rightwing politicians have also, instinctively, understood the importance of values in changing the political map. Margaret Thatcher famously remarked that “economics are the method; the object is to change the heart and soul.” Conservatives in the United States generally avoid debating facts and figures. Instead they frame issues in ways that both appeal to and reinforce extrinsic values. Every year, through mechanisms that are rarely visible and seldom discussed, the space in which progressive ideas can flourish shrinks a little more. The progressive response to this trend has been disastrous.
Melissa French Gates applies the Coca-Cola logic to health issues in developing countries. There are so many areas which are ripe for expert and considered messaging.
- How are older irrigation farmers to be asked to give due attention to the proposals outlined for environmental flows in The Guide to the Proposed Basin Plan so that they see their own welfare and productivity inextricably linked to the health of the environment?
- How do we get momentum behind the need for greater spending to provide adequately for the community needs for public housing?
- How do we get more - and more articulate - voices into the debate for the adequate provision of varying health needs across the nation?
The failure to act intelligently, smartly, forcefully, with speed on these issues sends us backwards on so many social indicators.
Are we truly to become (or have we already become?) a self-interested, child-ferrying, plasma television worshipping nation?
If the answer to this last question is yes, then we must admit that all we are doing - or most of us are doing - is holing up in our McMansion or Bogun Villa caverns soaking up entertainment for proles like so many inanimate sponges.
Postscript:
I realise that Coca-Cola would
not speak to its consumers and
would-be consumers in the manner
of the last three paragraphs. Miss
Eagle does have a lot to learn about getting
messages across!
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
BOB KATTER IS AGAINST THE INTERVENTION IN THE LIVES OF ABORIGINAL PEOPLE IN THE NORTHERN TERRITORY
Alex is apologetic that his missive is not more extensively researched and says
that this represents his'preliminary investigations' into Bob Katter
and his views on the NT Intervention.
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So, it appears that Bob Katter is actually against the NT Intervention.
Historically, he is 'pro self-determination' in a self-responsibility kinda way. He is also against privatisation in regional areas, for market failure purposes. These two ideologies clash to some extent i.e. how can you take control of your own life, if you are starved of basic services?
Katter is regarded as being a progressive advocate when he was Aboriginal Affairs minister. At a press conference yesterday, Katter told reporters to find the two books in which he is mentioned in the university reading guides from when he was Aboriginal Affairs Minister in Queensland in the 80s.
Basically, he is saying that he is prepared to fight for his ideas.
What does this all mean? Hard to say.
Two of the Independents are now on record as being against the Intervention (I'd guess that Wilkie is likely to be against it too).
It will only matter if we can get the NT Intervention onto the national agenda as a racist policy that needs to be stopped NOW. Which is why continuing the grassroots activism is the most useful thing we can do.
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