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Good question! 🧵1/16 . Price and Mundine are uncritically platformed to campaign against Voice, Treaty & Truth. Evidence suggests they speak not with the authority of any First Nations community but for fossil fuel/mining corporates. #auspol #voteyes❤️💛🖤👇
2/16 The anti-Voice campaign is being run by the Australian branch of the global Atlas Network of 500+ neoliberal ‘research institutes’, esp. the Centre for Independent Studies, which fosters the careers of Mundine and Price.👇
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3/16 I research the global organisation of climate policy obstruction since the 1980s via Big Oil funded Atlas ‘think tanks’. These are usually run by the elite members of the invite-only Mont Pelerin Society: John Howard is one.
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The Voice is about empowering communities, not the same privileged few. Here's Warren (@nyunggai) supporting $500m in cuts to community programs in 2014 while arguing for $600m more. His finger prints are all over the failure to close the gap 🧵#auspol #VoteYes #VoiceToParliament
This was under the Indigenous Advancement Strategy. Abbott's landmark policy that brought Indigenous affairs into PM&C & gutted community support. The IAS was key reason behind many calling for change at the regional dialogues leading to Uluru #auspol #VoteYes #VoiceToParliament
Warren was chair of the PM's advisory council, later a candidate for the Coalition under another PM. Here he justifies cuts, but also refuses to answer questions about cuts to vital community programs with lasting negative impacts #auspol #VoteYes #VoiceToParliament
🧵1/ If not 1938, then when?
Jack Patten, legendary Yorta Yorta man. He was an athlete, orator, activist & founder of the first Aboriginal newspaper,
Edition 1/6- Aus Day 1938, 150 yrs after the 1st fleet landed, saw Jack organise a national day of mourning.
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Jack Patten, legendary Yorta Yorta man. He was an athlete, orator, activist & founder of the first Aboriginal newspaper,
Edition 1/6- Aus Day 1938, 150 yrs after the 1st fleet landed, saw Jack organise a national day of mourning.
#VoteYes #Auspol
2/ Edition 2/6- A stark contrast. 60 years earlier, the 1st cricket team to visit England was all Aboriginal.
A Judge lamented being unable to flog Aboriginals when sentencing Packsaddle (Real name: Too Put Ah Malay).
A Judge lamented being unable to flog Aboriginals when sentencing Packsaddle (Real name: Too Put Ah Malay).
3/ Edition 3/6- The Abo Call survives a police compliance audit.
They are then hit with a ￡300 bond payment. The law required all newspapers to pay this in the event they breached any laws.
Through goodwill, the money was loaned to them.
Jack must've been an extraordinary man!
They are then hit with a ￡300 bond payment. The law required all newspapers to pay this in the event they breached any laws.
Through goodwill, the money was loaned to them.
Jack must've been an extraordinary man!
The Dutton Files
Dated: 23 April 2017
Spoiler Alert: Everything Peter said here was either based on lies or an outright lie.
Not a person who can ever be trusted.
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Dated: 23 April 2017
Spoiler Alert: Everything Peter said here was either based on lies or an outright lie.
Not a person who can ever be trusted.
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#Voice #VoteYes #Yes23
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We are so PUMPED to be back at House Judiciary committee to hear HB23-1187 Alternative Sentencing for Pregnant People #copolitics
HB23-1187 will ensure that #pregnant people have the opportunity to #alternative sentencing 🔥
@S2SSisters @elephant_circle
HB23-1187 will ensure that #pregnant people have the opportunity to #alternative sentencing 🔥
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We know that pregnancy is contraindicated towards a #healthy pregnancy & being incarcerated while pregnant is harmful to both the pregnant person and the child - #reproductivejustice is what we are fighting for today #copolitics @elephant_circle @S2SSisters
Correctional facilities are not mandated to track or report pregnancy-related data & most facilities do not have any routine process for collecting such information - another reason why we are saying YES on HB23-1187 #copolitics #leadership #reproductivehealth
[A Thread] Today is modern New Zealand's birthday; #WaitangiDay. Today commemorates the day in 1840 when the Treaty was first signed between Great Britain and many (but not all) Maori Tribal Chiefs. #auspol #nzpol 1/7
There will never be “veto power” for Voice, or Treaty, or any kind of arrangement for Indigenous peoples in Australia. It’s impossible. It’s important to understand why. This is not a limitation of the Voice proposal. It’s an impossibility 🧵 #VoteYes #UluruStatement #auspol
Under the Australian system of democratic governance established by our constitution, the parliament has legislative power/authority. That’s the house of reps & senate. That’s it. They’re/it’s sovereign. #VoteYes #UluruStatement #auspol
Being able to give “veto power” to another institution would be to fundamentally alter the entire system of governance established by our Constitution, it would mean tearing it up & starting all over again. #VoteYes #UluruStatement #auspol
This is quite something from David Littleproud & @The_Nationals - I’ll think you’ll find bureaucrats swanning in & out of Indigenous communities is a massive part of the problem we have now, that is the status quo that is failing our people. #UluruStatement #auspol #VoteYes 🧵
Let’s not forget again here @The_Nationals have zero credibility on what will work for closing the gap. They had the Indigenous affairs portfolio for almost 7 years out of the past decade. #UluruStatement #auspol #VoteYes
This idea the Voice is just another layer of bureaucracy is nonsense. Those pointing to the Langton & Calma model are conveniently ignoring the fact it’s an example only & Govt is committed to designing final Voice with community itself. #UluruStatement #auspol #VoteYes
This is embarrassing. What a very confused No case. Misquoting source of “all men are created equal” saying it’s US Constitution rather than Declaration of Independence, then also saying it’s a good example to draw on? #VoteYes #UluruStatement #auspol 🧵 theguardian.com/australia-news…
Warren, that same US carried on & enabled slavery after declaring independence under banner of “equality for all” 🙃 And let’s not erase the history & experience of Native American people, including the recognition of their rights & place too #VoteYes #UluruStatement #auspol
The key thing here anyway is this: “This approach was previously rejected by multiple rounds of consultation including the 2017 Uluru statement from the heart, which called for a voice to parliament.” No one wants symbolism. #VoteYes #UluruStatement #auspol
A lot of talk about what practical benefit the Voice would have & people jumping to voting intentions without thinking or engaging. Some genuine; some I think less than genuine in light of Alice Springs. Let me unpack a little. 🧵 #UluruStatement #auspol #VoteYes
Firstly, an immediate response seems to be “just listen now” or “why isn’t the advice already being listened to” - or we don’t need a voice to listen. Again, some genuine concern here along with disingenuous talk from those fundamentally opposed #UluruStatement #auspol #VoteYes
Clearly we need a Voice. The current failures are result of a system that fails our people. When it does listen, it does so with its fingers & toes crossed. The response to welfare issues & the Voice proposals clearly should not be the status quo. #UluruStatement #auspol #VoteYes
Hobart folk, as a @UTAS_ academic and alumni, current Sandy Bay resident, former Glenorchy and Burnie boy, here's my opinion on moving the rest of the Sandy Bay campus to Hobart. Pls ignore if outside Hobart. #lgtas🧵 1/n
Two issues here, so don't conflate as is being done: 1. Should UTas move the rest of its academics to Hobart; 2) Should the Sandy Bay campus be reused for housing? 2/n
Before the long list, a note that I loved - like most people who attended uni at Sandy Bay in the 1990s or before - being at uni. Education has changed though. Campus life has changed. Complexity of lives have changed. The student body is more diverse by far. 3/n
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Those #VoteNo people parroting the "not enough detail" schtick from LNP & RW politicians, click hungry #SoCalledJournalists, outright bigoted TV talking heads and SM influencers would benefit from reading the mountain of detail amassed over the last decade:
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Those #VoteNo people parroting the "not enough detail" schtick from LNP & RW politicians, click hungry #SoCalledJournalists, outright bigoted TV talking heads and SM influencers would benefit from reading the mountain of detail amassed over the last decade:
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2012: Expert Panel on Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australians
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#BREAKING We are seeing exciting things for #RankedChoiceVoting, the labor movement, & ballot initiatives!! Thread of #DownBallotProgressives & causes #NotMeUs🔹 + some w/
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.@CallForCongress🔹is running for #WA02 8/2/22 against @RepRickLarsen🔹! He ran a great campaign ‘20 so let’s pick up this seat this time! #NotMeUs #MedicareForAll
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We, @TheRagtagBand stand behind @WholeWashington in efforts for #MedicareForAll in Washington & #ThroughTheStates! @RedBeretsM4All is fundraising for this initiative! #YesOn1471
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The story of the #BuildBackBetter has yet to be written. Let’s examine the 50 Republican US Senators who are voting against lifting children out of poverty, education,elder care, affordable prescription drugs, child care & family leave? What does this mean for YOUR STATE?
#ALABAMA Sen. Richard Shelby is voting against the #ChildTaxCredit “The Center on Budget &Policy Priorities found making the program permanent would benefit 93% of #AL children,lift 162,000 #AL children above/closer to poverty line & benefit 480,000 #AL children under 17.
#ALABAMA Sen. Tommy Tuberville has offered you no solutions; he has admitted that he “wouldn’t have a clue” how to address the current pandemic and recently told people that $600 per week in federal unemployment benefits was just “too much.” al.com/news/2021/12/a…
"Abortion is murder." Except it's not. On the day #men4yes has taken off, a thread about probably the key issue at the heart of the debate on the #8thAmendment and effectively the only argument #VoteNo have: that abortion is murder.
In particular, this thread is an attempt to reach out to those who either are going to #voteno or those who are leaning that way, because - if in doubt about whether abortion is murder - it may seem safer to err on the side of caution.
I think it's useful to note that I was, as a teenager, a relatively devout Catholic so I would have been "pro life" - this lasted for a few years even after I left religion, largely because, on the face of it, the "life is sacred" argument seemed so clear-cut.
