RAvery
April 28, 2019, 3:15pm
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If he had bragged about it he could probably get elected.
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“Now the skeletons are gone.”
The definition of skeleton in this context is a remnant of past misdeeds that literally doesn’t go away. That’s why you hide them at the back of a closet.
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RAvery
May 9, 2019, 11:49am
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For Australia, making a typo was the most important day in their lives. But for me it would have been tuesday .
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jerwin
May 13, 2019, 8:10am
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Not many people will proofread microprinting-- it takes an especially keen eye,
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Australian healthcare beats the hell out of the American horrorshow, but that doesn’t mean that all is as it should be:
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The Australian political media are currently engaged in a hagiographical frenzy over the recently-deceased Bob Hawke.
I am not so inclined.
http://www.kooriweb.org/foley/essays/tracker/tracker19.html
How Bob Hawke Killed Land Rights Gary Foley Tracker Magazine
Bob Hawke shows how much land Aborigines gained under his administration
A major theme in all the talks, lectures and raves that I do these days relates to what I believe to have been the greatest sell-out of Aboriginal peoples in my lifetime. I speak of the period between 1983 and 1996 when the Hawke-Keating Labor Government killed off the movement for land rights. In one of the greatest acts of political bastardry in Australian history, Bob Hawke in 1984 personally removed land rights from the national political agenda. More galling was the fact that Hawke had done this at the behest of the most corrupt politician in recent Australian history. I refer to Mr. Brian Burke, Former ALP National President and Premier of WA, and best friend of the Western Australian mining and pastoral industries. Burke was also close mates with a host of dodgy Perth 1980s property developers, but more of that later.
The Hawke sell-out is an important aspect of Australian history that continues to be almost completely ignored in the rush these days by Australian politicians and media to find ways to blame Aboriginal people for their own dispossession and marginalisation, rather than conceding that Aboriginal problems are directly attributable to 200 years of political neglect and inertia. It is therefore timely in this current context to re-examine the Hawke-Keating era so that we might better understand how white-inspired notions such as ‘native-title’ and ‘reconciliation’ suddenly in 1984 replaced Aboriginal demands for ‘land rights’ and ‘economic independence’ as the goals of the Labor government. We might also benefit from a greater appreciation of just how thoroughly we got ‘done over’ by the Hawke-Keating Government. It is only when we understand how Hawke killed land rights and Keating gave us the completely watered-down and hopeless Native Title Act that we can better understand how recent history evolved into the current situation. So let us take a journey of reflection through the Hawke-Keating era and refresh our memories.
The Hawke/Keating governments were also responsible for delivering the Australian union movement gagged and bound for the Howard government to destroy. They dragged the Labor movement to the right and disempowered the Australian working class.
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It isn’t guaranteed yet, but so far:
Contrary to all of the pre-election polls, the right is looking likely to retain government.
The one minor consolation is that Tony Abbott lost his seat.
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Y’know that thing that White American liberals do where they try to blame the South for all of America’s failings?
Middle-class White Australian centrists are currently doing that with Queensland. It’s all so depressingly predictable.
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adonai
May 18, 2019, 12:46pm
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To be absolutely fair though… Fuck Queensland
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adonai:
Fuck Queensland
The Coalition also had a substantial swing in their favour across western Sydney.
Fuck Australia.
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I’ve said before: the problem in America is that the American government does not represent the majority of the population. The problem in Australia is that the Australian government does represent the majority of the population.
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An Anning volunteer bitten by a Rottie, Abbott getting kicked out, a Hanson billboard set on fire… the good moments are very much washed out by the sea of bleakness, raging racism and xenophobia.
Fuck.
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Newstart unemployment benefits top out at about $300/week, or $250/week of you don’t have kids.
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