"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”?

I don't particularly care who the Liberal Party have as their next leader, but I'm kinda hoping it's Angus Taylor purely to see people replying, anytime he says anything, with 'Fantastic. Great move. Well done Angus'...

Had a staff member racially profiled on our way to deliver anti-racism training yesterday. I wrote a complaint to the organisation and was told by management that racism and prejudice definitely don’t exist within their organisation but that they’d investigate.

On tomorrow's episode of 'Yeah Nah Pasaran!' on 3CR, @sexenheimer.bsky.social & I talk to @lukelpearson.bsky.social of IndigenousX about The Voice referendum, media and Indigenous struggles. slackbastard.anarchobase.com?p=51057

I know I’m a bit late to the party with this hot take but Twitter really isn’t great these days…

Had a few white ppl now send IndX screenshots of pretty fucked up racist posts telling us that’s what we can expect if there’s a no like we haven’t been seeing those comments all our lives, and like they didn’t just send racist comments to an Indigenous run space as their way of being good allies…

I don’t like how it’s ok to talk about young Aboriginal ppl as tho they aren’t listening... We mention all these stats and comparisons to evoke white sympathy but are we thinking what it does to an 18yr old to be told that ‘YOU will die young’ and ‘YOU are more likely to go to jail than university’?

I wrote this as an open letter to mob for once the referendum is over… but I know how you non-Indigenous peeps love a stickybeak, so it’s ok if you have a look too. There’s actually a few relevant bits in there for you to consider anyways. indigenousx.com.au/an-open-lett...

This is why “humans are bad for nature” is an unscientific stance when it comes to conservation. It’s not the presence of people that’s the problem. It’s colonialism and extractive relationships with nature. Those aren’t universal practices.

So, I’m meant to believe that right now, even as you read this, there are white people out there right now at this very second just walking freely amongst us believing that Australia isn’t currently divided by race and they are very worried that a voice might divide us by race? I don’t believe you.

I mean, I do… doesn’t everyone else? Really?! Just me? I swear, nobody told me it was to share. Well… this is embarrassing. I’m embarrassed. I don’t know what else to say… My bad, fam!

Me, quickly brushing all the backyards I’ve stolen under a nearby rug: OMG, I can’t believe anyone would even suggest such a thing. I mean… the audacity, really, for me, it’s the audacity that gets me. *walks away, whistling*

Don’t do this… don’t take the view of an individual Indigenous person that you agree with and hold it up and proclaim to the world, ‘this is what Indigenous ppl think about this issue!’

White fragility is fragile like a bear trap… it’s easily triggered, but it can still kill you quick enough, or leave you trying to gnaw your own leg off to get away from its teeth.

I’m not sure this is the best analogy given the long history of paternalistic approaches to Indigenous affairs that serve to infatalise Indigenous ppl and present us as childlike and incapable of managing our own affairs. What school takes seriously the ‘advice’ of student representative councils?

The problem is not that Aboriginal ppl disagree, the problem is that white Australia knows so little about us that some sincerely expect 800,000+ individuals across 250+ nations to have achieved universal consensus on a sensitive and complicated political issue for the convenience of white ppl.

This my new notes app… I’m just gonna test ideas here and see what sticks. If I like them (or maybe if enough of you like them) you’ll see versions of them up on IX accounts later. Lol I’m sure you don’t care, why would you, but I’m just telling you that in the interests of transparency.

I’m not sure ‘divisive’ is the right thing to be condemning, whatever behaviours you define as ‘divisive’. It suggests that the goal is to bring us all together. It reeks of reconciliation. I don’t care about reconciliation, I care about justice. We don’t need to be reconciled for that to happen.

We talk about ‘Indigenous and non-Indigenous’ but as Indigenous is a classification not based on race, colour or geography but instead has to do with being colonised, it’d be better juxtaposed with terms like colonisers, migrants, immigrants and refugees. indigenousx.com.au/voice-debate...

“But I talked to a different Aboriginal person who had a different opinion and now I’m so confused!” Do non-Indigenous people actually appreciate how dehumanising this is? It’s not like if you saw a dog reading a book or a polar bear that hates snow. We are different people with different opinions.

Fuck Albo for saying the referendum has been great because put it Indigenous disadvantage ‘front and centre’. We’ve been defined by disadvantage for 200yrs already… It should have put Indigenous rights front and centre. indigenousx.com.au/voice-debate...

‘Aboriginal ppl were colonised because they didn’t have farms, fences, or a written language’ is some peak deficit discourse victim blaming nonsense... We got invaded because the same invaders who had been busily invading everywhere for a few hundred years finally came here and did what invaders do.

Me: those guys who say they think about the Roman Empire all the time are weird af… Also me: Isn’t it amazing that you can add almost any imaginable prefix to ‘ject’ and it’s a word but ject isn’t a word? I think about that all the time. Inject, subject, object, reject, deject, project wtf is ject?

So… how has everyone been enjoying the referendum? (Pls don’t @ me)