Fighting Fake News with Real,28/9/23, Who Has a Voice?, Mundine, Pezzullo, Dan Andrews, Educators in the Age of Tyranny, When women are Suspect among Others,

 

1) Mundine says he will join the Uluru Council if YES23 wins. However, he doesn't even begin to say who will vote for him.

2) He wanted to run for preselection in Marise Payne's vacated seat and better represent his white constituency as does Jacinta Price. Backed down for flipflopping on the  No Campaign

3) Indigenous Australians see them as "Plastic" Dutton's Ken and Barbie

4)"The fact is that most Indigenous Australians are doing fine," he said.  60% live below the "poverty line".  Another 30% live either on the edge or under a glass ceiling

5)"It is wrong to tell young people growing up in these families that they are disadvantaged because they are Indigenous. So Mundine Speaking for himself and a very small minority. While 83%  simply  recognize a statistical reality that's not "doing fine"

6)"It's wrong to tell them, as I've heard many times during this campaign, they are more likely to go to prison than to university. Because it's just not true."

However, a 2015 ABC RMIT Fact Check found that it is true, that Indigenous men are more likely to go to jail than to university.

 

7)"Imagine if all the celebrities, corporates, law firms, sporting codes, religious groups, local, state, territory and federal governments, unions and agencies and bureaucracies had devoted all that energy, time, money and other resources they've devoted to the Voice to getting Indigenous children into school." It's why they turned because  they have witnessed the LNP failure to do anything

 

8)"What I'm talking about is whether you agree with victimhood or not, or whether you agree with colonial intergenerational trauma, there is a stage you have to move on," Mr Mundine said.  Guess that  attitude also applies to women who have been raped according to Mundine "move on"

 

9) The Germany teaches its shameful Nazi history and changed their society to prevent the past from repeating itself. The Norwegians and NZers have given the Sami and Maoris Voice and do the same. Other countries have a Bill of Human Rights enshrined in their constitution and/or laws. We don't. We have Race built into our Constitution and the Liberals wanted to close the UNAHRC while Abbott promised to rid us of sections of the Racial Discrimination Act. He promised to "change the laws"

Should we feel proud that stand shoulder-to-shoulder and closer to Russia, China, North Korea and Israel?

 

Source: (1) National Times – Leading No campaigner Nyunggai Warren Mundine… | Facebook

 

 

The Steve Bannon formula for Trump staying in power "Flood the Zone with Shits" was too slow but the LNP tried and tried. Pezzulo had his arm up Dutton's arse.

 

 Dan Andrews, Labor hero and enemy of the right, has announced his resignation as Victoria’s longest serving premier. What made him such a successful politician? Paul Strangio reports.

Dan Andrews: a Labor titan and Victoria’s leader of consequence departs

by Paul Strangio | Sep 26, 2023

 

In his landmark book The Sociological Imagination, C. Wright Mills argues that social scientists (and educators) have an obligation to address the question of truth and its political meaning during a time of widely communicated nonsense. He further argues that in addition to a politics of truth, social scientists have to support the values of reason and human freedom. He also believed that the role of social scientists was to disturb, bear witness, and resist systems of oppression. In this view, intellectuals have to have a deep sense of commitment and civic courage while “writing with vigor and clarity for the general reader [in order] to sustain the idea and the hope of a public culture.”[1] These principles, in the age of emerging fascism, are under attack in the age of gangster capitalism by a horde of anti-public intellectuals and far-right members of the GOP.

Source: Educators as Public Intellectuals in an Age of Tyranny: Confront, Fight Back and Organize – CounterPunch.org

 

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  You’re Sexually Assaulted. You Report. And Police Make You the Suspect.

  Rachel de Leon

In Australia if you are White and live in poverty you are  made the SUSPECT if you are an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander you have been explained.