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Labor wins 76th seat, set to form majority
China says it’s ready to co-operate with Australia in the Pacific
The new Australian government of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has made the Pacific islands an early foreign policy priority to counter Beijing’s push, announcing a defence training school, support for maritime security, a boost in aid and re-engaging the region on climate change.
The bombshell announcement came from China’s ambassador to Fiji, Zhang Ping, on Monday afternoon.
Mr Zhang said the agreement – under which China was proposing to cement ties with Pacific Island nations across areas such as cyber security, police cooperation, fisheries management and pandemic control – had been dropped.
It came as Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met his counterparts from 10 Pacific island nations in Fiji, midway through a diplomatic tour of the region where China’s ambitions for wider security ties has caused concern among US allies.
Source: China dumps ambitious plan for Pacific Islands deal
In Australia, we saw how it drive Yassmin Abdel Magied out of the country. It was amplified by News Corp against Waleed Aly and his wife. It showed up as Andrew Bolt as the advocate of free speech and recruiter of hate and bigotry around the country. Currently, the LNP and the LNP have voted Peter Dutton in as their leader whose history proves him to be a grandmaster of both Islamophobia, Racism, and ethnic hatred and the Murdoch media are supporting him from the get-go.
We believe acknowledging and addressing the systemic negativity in media coverage of Muslims and Islam is vital for countering widespread stigmatization. This may, in turn, create opportunities for more humane policies that are fair to everyone regardless of their faith.The Conversation
Source: Yes, Muslims are portrayed negatively in American Media – 2 Political Scientists reviewed over 250,000 Articles to find conclusive Evidence
The LNP reward Dutton not Australia
An effective opposition leader, one who can reframe his party around mainstream values, is good for us all.
His forays into racial stereotyping –saying in 2018 that Melburnians were afraid to go out to dinner because of “African gang violence”, and his 2016 comments on the “mistake” of resettling Lebanese Muslim immigrants in the 1970s – were deeply disappointing.
Dutton is also notorious for boycotting the apology to the Stolen Generations (something he later said he regretted), which will put him, and his party, in an interesting position when they formulate a response to a referendum on the Voice to parliament. Dutton, as a former Queensland cop, has seen Aboriginal disadvantage up close, and perhaps he believed the apology was tokenistic.
But symbols matter in politics, and the Uluru Statement from the Heart is not virtue-signalling from a white-woke minority. Besides, what the right-wing of the Liberal party calls “woke” is becoming increasingly mainstream, especially when these issues are framed for what many of them are – a request for fairness.
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