That time of year again… youtube.com/watch?v=z9M2...

Or maybe, making sure people can afford housing, health care and basic necessities, are able to form community by not having to constantly move and are ensured financial security in one of the richest countries on earth might do it? How’s leaning right going for UK Labour? 🫠🫠🫠

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.

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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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

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.

“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...

“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)

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.

Editorial: Tell me Australia, which is worse: signing bombs or making anti-bomb signs? preview.mailerlite.io/emails/webvi...

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.

"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.

“Ok everyone, Invasion Day is officially over for another year so you all know what that means!” *spins wheel of oppressed minority groups*

One of the things that really sticks me is that now, a few days after Jan 26, many mob are still reeling, still hurting, still recovering… but in murdoch media rooms around the country they are counting up all the extra clicks and congratulating each other on another successful year.

If we’re going to talk about how select groups in media and politics are selective in their outrage when there is an attack, then we probably need to continue that conversation to look at who those same people spend all their time attacking.

Who could have guessed that increasingly virulent attacks from sections of the media and politicians that deem Aboriginal people unAustralian, divisive, fraudsters, whingers, criminals, bludgers, a drain on public resources and a threat to western civilisation would lead to its inevitable outcome?

I wrote an article today for the first time in what feels like a very long time… it wasn’t on the most important topic, just debunking that it’s the 26th Jan because of the citizenship act in 1949 and not because of 1788 but still, it felt nice to write again. indigenousx.com.au/debunking-au...

A couple of Palestinian journos who had been reporting for Australian media for the past few years have managed to get out of Gaza with their families but now need support getting set up in a new country (not Australia) where they have no resources and don’t speak the language. gofund.me/d02926541

Whenever I hear Liberal or Labor criticising the other about their failure to close the gap while in govt I’m reminded of this…

“Sovereignty became treaty, treaty became reconciliation and reconciliation turned into nothing” Yunupingu, 2006. Happy Reconciliation Week

A few days ago the australian ran a number of hit pieces against the ‘Blak Sovereignty Movement’ who they were claiming, based on very dubious assertions, wanted to use the word ‘genocide’ in a group statement… Super curious to see if they now come out and accuse Patrick Dodson of ‘calculated evil’.

Media Statement from Ned Jampijinpa Hargraves indigenousx.com.au/media-statem...

In the 70s and 80s Aboriginal people asked for Treaty, but we were given reconciliation instead... Cupcakes and platitudes are not reconciliation. Reconciliation action plans are not reconciliation. Reconciliation is not Treaty. Reconciliation is not justice.

www.indailysa.com.au/inreview/boo... #Mobsky

They can rescind my award, take away my prize money, rip up the contract but I was still one of two winners of the prestigious Blak & Write Fellowship for 2025. A panel of peers read my manuscript, and selected my work as worthy of winning. Haters can not rob me of Blak joy

‘White genocide’ is a neo-nazi conspiracy theory used to attack diversity and anti-racism, refute claims of racism and, ultimately, to justify white supremacy. indigenousx.com.au/what-is-whit...

Did you ever wonder why so many white South Africans came to Australia after the end of apartheid?

First, they didn’t come for the white South African farmers, and I didn’t speak up because it wasn’t happening but also because ‘white genocide’ is a made up white supremacist conspiracy theory used to justify white supremacy and to oppose immigration and multiculturalism.

The same Sussan Ley who, in her Australia Day speech this year, compared Captain Cook to Elon Musk and then listed all the ‘amazing’ things about Australia that were either just straight untrue or only eventually came about thru activism and then shat on activism as being unAustralian? Cool.

This piece from Boneta-Marie Mabo - granddaughter of Eddie Koiki Mabo - is a really cool little intro to radical Blak activism. It obviously doesn’t cover everything, but I reckon it has some neat little nuggets to chew on. Well worth taking the time to sit with it.

Australian-based authors and artists are donating a range of items for this online auction. Funds go to MSF (Doctors Without Borders), UNRWA, Palestine Children's Relief Fund and Olive Kids. Closes in 7 days. airauctioneer.com/authors-and-...

This is incredibly powerful from the WHO’s Emergencies Director, Dr Mike Ryan, on the world doing nothing as the children of Gaza die. “This is an abomination.” (🎥 Middle East Eye)

Anyway… how is everyone? Hope you’ve all been well x

Remember when the referendum failed and certain conservatives were saying “we voted no to [insert anything and everything Indigenous]” and we were all, “well no, Australia voted no to very specific constitutional change”?