The Grifters.

Folks are waking up to the grift. Warren Mundine launched expletive-riddled spray after KPMG rejected his $10,000 speaker’s fee www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The elite capture of FN disadvantage mobilised by high follower accounts through rage farming techniques thus increasing individual social & financial reward through neoliberal approaches by exploiting & catastrophising suicide, racism & cop brutality for profit—disaster capitalism at its most foul.

Over on platform X, it’s genuinely vulgar the FN folks of high follower count who use racism, suicide, disadvantage, incarceration and injustice as means to fundraise their enterprise/s. The grifters’ tell—a donate link is not too far away.

I see this, “It makes white people feel good, that you’re helping a poor Aboriginal child,”…very thing happening in Indigenous suicide to raise money, and yes, “it’s sickening.” Warren Mundine wants an audit of Indigenous funding. How about the charity he chairs? michaelwest.com.au/warren-mundi...

The Blak Sovereignty and the Progressive No betrayal. —Yarrabah voted overwhelmingly in favour of the referendum proposal for a Voice to Parliament The people of Yarrabah feel 'rejected' by the Voice result and hoped a Yes vote would stop residents dying young www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10...

Some cashing in are FN social media types who a) didn’t support the Voice, b) were ambivalent while dragging it or c) “changed” to yes, rattling their gofundme grifting cans or the like. Indigenous groups say voice referendum ‘unleashed a tsunami of racism’ www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Areas With Large Proportions of Indigenous Residents Voted Yes, Electoral Data Reveals www.vice.com/en/article/d...

Royal Commission Statement David Pocock—While child sexual abuse is an issue in Indigenous communities, it is also far too prevalent across the country, with the latest statistics showing around 1 in 4 (28.5%) Australians have experienced child sexual abuse. www.davidpocock.com.au/royal_commis...

Never suggest that Indigenous Australians were against the Yes vote. Especially those in remote areas. Thanks to Rob Baillieu for this map.

WeLL dOnE PrOgResSivE nO aND bLaK sOvEreIGntY Referendum results show Indigenous Australians supported the Voice, even though the wider country and the bLaKTiViSTs didn’t —Results for Remote Mobile Teams in the NT electorate of Lingiari. Number columns are first % Yes, then % No and total votes.

via Ronni Salt on Platform X —Organisations and companies Warren Mundine has been associated with have received more than $303,000,000 in federal govt contracts and grants. Almost all of them focused on Indigenous consulting work, the kind of work the Voice to Parliament would have overseen.

Booth by booth, Indigenous Australians backed the Voice www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

The Blak Sovereignty movement and the Progressive No betrayed remote communities across this country. Communities and FN people most disadvantaged and who would have benefited the most from a Yes vote were hung out to dry by inner-city Blak crusaders with idealistic slogans and chants.

We are in the era of the elite capture of FN disadvantage—a time that began in the wake of George Floyd and BLM Australia that birthed the GoFundMe grift. FN disadvantage has been hijacked for individual careerism in an age where profitable rage-farming has spawned FN neo-liberalism.

It’s a week of mourning, yet there are the usual suspects of FN people panhandling on Twitter. If it’s not rage-farming racism, it’s giving suicides the poverty-porn treatment for crying out loud. For just one week, give it a rest. Remote communities are grieving—it’s not an opportunity for gains.

And just like that, no more Twitter.

📷 The last 6 weeks as I’ve clocked over 12,000km, visiting remote and regional NT communities and towns invited to talk about sex, sexuality and gender diversity, and the power and role of family and community acceptance in FN LGBTIQA+SB suicide prevention. Around 1,800km to go.

8,000km was a bit of an underestimation, with three more weeks on the road & having clocked 8,170km as of this morning. By mid-September & at the finish of this contract, I’ll ratchet up just under 12,000km over the seven weeks I would’ve been on the road. saferspaces.lgbt

Life is good.

Captivating, forensic—disturbing and gruesome in parts. Doesn’t miss. Crossing the Line by Nick McKenzie https://open.spotify.com/show/0MlAg0Anqk1inFRAQR42T6?si=LDR4zAyHTNCQQOlgTjWxvg

Two days of gravel road and red dirt for three days of Safer Spaces—FN LGBTIQA+SB Suicide Prevention Training in East Arnhem, NT. https://www.saferspaces.lgbt/

This week, I delivered 2 'What is LGBTIQA+SB? Rainbow Yarns' in remote NT. 14 were Aboriginal fellas, aged 14-16. Staff—"We’ve never had them sit so still for as long as they did." Community and family understanding and acceptance is crucial for preventing FN LGBTIQA+SB suicide.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people must be at the centre, not the margins, of LGBTQIA+ plans and policies https://theconversation.com/aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-people-must-be-at-the-centre-not-the-margins-of-lgbtqia-plans-and-policies-209221

Nearly one in two young Indigenous LGBTQ+ Australians have attempted suicide at some point in their life, new research has found. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-26/study-finds-high-level-of-distress-for-indigenous-lgbtq-youth/102649922

Renowned Territory street artist @b4mble.bsky.social knows the power of art to increase self-esteem and confidence, and has free sessions integrating social and emotional learning—taking his vibrant, street-art-inspired paintings across the Territory as part of the NT’s #SuicidePrevention.

Australia’s referendum debate has been dominated by outrage content farmers – not the voices we need to hear | Dameyon Bonson https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2023/jul/19/referendum-indigenous-voice-to-parliament-debate-outrage-content?CMP=share_btn_tw

For the NT. Family is recognised as one of the most vital protective factors against suicide among sex, sexuality & gender-diverse children. I start my “What is LGBTIQA+SB?” in the NT with FN family & youth this July/August includes Black Rainbow swag. e: [email protected] www.saferspaces.lgbt