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“If you were a white person, a white man, you were given full authority to shoot Aboriginal people,” June says, “These are the frontier wars that our people lived through.”

Oh? Is that real #TruthTelling? /2
abc.net.au/news/2023-06-0…
2. AAP Fact Check: “From the late 1830s the British imperial government clarified as a matter of policy that Aboriginal people in the Australian colonies were to be treated in law as British subjects,” Prof Nettelbeck.

And this from the Australian Law Reform Commission /3 Image
3. Back to the ABC article: "Ian Hamm has spent decades trying to... ensure Stolen Children like him are recognised and remunerated."

Why was he 'stolen'? If he hadn't been 'stolen', might he not have suffered abuse or neglect for which he then might need remuneration? /4
4. Yet again, the ABC carefully crafts and curates a narrative of victimhood, often based in lies or unsubstantiated opinion.

This, I believe, will be the basis of #TruthTelling: myths, legends and opinions which must be accepted without scrutiny or you're a racist.

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May 21
Osman Faruqi:

"For those of us without white skin, working at the ABC sometimes felt like entering the belly of the beast. Like all elite Australian cultural institutions and media organisations, the ABC is overwhelmingly unrepresentative of the country it claims to serve." /2
2. "...almost every non-white person who had worked at the organisation advised me against taking a job there. They cited story after story of overt racism from colleagues, managers and the audience."

Who is Osman Faruqi? /3
smh.com.au/culture/tv-and…
3. Apart from being the son of a Federal Senator, here's some of Faruqi's work.

He seems well qualified to speak on racism, doesn't he? ImageImageImageImage
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Mar 10
"[Kumanjayi Walker's] family's dedication was "admirable" throughout his youth"

WHAT?

His mother was a 'sniffer' and alcoholic who handed him over to two unrelated people who raised him amidst “alcohol abuse and severe domestic violence”./2

abc.net.au/news/2023-03-0…
2. At 7 months old "a dispute had erupted between Walker’s maternal and paternal relatives over who should care for the infant. Both sides claimed the other was incapable due to alcohol abuse."

"Concerns were being raised their home was “filthy”. /3

theaustralian.com.au/nation/the-unw…
3. "...now 15 months old... it was now unclear who at Warlpiri Camp was actually caring for him"

By 2002, he was under the care of his grandmother "simultaneously suffering from an ear infection, a chest infection, nits and scabies"

He was handed around from person to person /4
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Dec 20, 2022
ABC: "The neoclassical is, in architectural terms, the language of power — and for anyone who isn't from Europe, it doesn't translate."

Buildings are racist.

But wait, there's more /2
abc.net.au/news/2022-12-2…
2. "...unofficially dubbed Sydney Modern until a name can be agreed upon with the traditional owner groups asserting cultural rights over the site."

Of course.

And: "...the new building [is] move away from the self-loathing and inferiority complex of the colony..." /3
3. "relocating AGNSW's dedicated gallery for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, named Yiribana, from the basement of the old building to the foyer of the new."

Is that like "Nobody puts Aboriginal art (baby) in the basement."?

The virtue signalling continues: /4
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Oct 2, 2022
The 2017 Uluru Statement from the Heart called for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament when there were just 5 Indigenous Federal MPs - 2.2%.

It was therefore felt that the only way Indigenous people could achieve proportional representation was not through democratic election. /2
2. The inference from this was that Australian was too racist to democratically elect a proportionate number of Indigenous people and that non-democratic means would be required to remediate this.

In 2022, 11 Indigenous Federal MPs were democratically elected - 4.8% of all MPs/3
3. 4.8% of all MPs is over-representation for the 3.2% who identified as Indigenous in the 2020 Census.

Now that Indigenous people are more than proportionally represented, is there a need for a Voice to Parliament, chosen by race, not elected democratically on merit?
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Sep 2, 2022
"...the law student said she was left disappointed and wondering why the judge had been asked to speak on the topic of domestic violence against Aboriginal women."

Perhaps because she's been a Judge in the NT for 20+ years and has seen the results. /2
abc.net.au/news/2022-09-0…
From the ABC's report: ""To insinuate that it's an aspect within our culture that is accepted is invalidating our lived experiences and our culture," Ms Dos Santos said."

From The Australian: the Judge recounted a 2015 case where 20 people stood by and did nothing... /3
3. ...while a man bashed his wife to death. No-one intervened or even called 000.

THIS is or was that victim's 'lived experience'.

Next from the ABC: "Madge-Pearl Thaiday, a Girramay, Djiru and Erub woman... said she felt the speech demonised and vilified Aboriginal men."/4
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Aug 16, 2022
The Uluru Statement from the Heart came about five years ago at a time and with an expectation that Indigenous people couldn't or wouldn't be elected in representative numbers to parliament - the soft racism of low expectations.

This year, 11 MPs were elected - 4.8% of all. /2
2. The Statement proposed a Voice to Parliament that would represent Indigenous people.

Those involved shot themselves in the foot because, it turns out, Indigenous MPs were indeed democratically elected in representative numbers.

The Voice is therefore superfluous. /3
3. Why aren't those with such low expectations of Indigenous candidates and the general public not embarrassed that they proposed a third chamber of parliament with race-based members selected by a committee?

Why are they doubling down when representative MPs already exist? /4
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