ABORIGINAL elders have returned to the ruins of their childhood homes at an abandoned mission in remote South Australia to end a 14-year native title battle over a vast area incorporating Lake Eyre.
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SOME MORE GOOD QUESTIONS FOR THE DAILY TELEGRAPH TO ASK OF ITS READERS
— DO YOU THINK MORE GAYS SHOULD BE LOCKED UP IN JAIL?
— DO YOU THINK ASIANS SHOULD HAVE THEIR DRIVERS LICENSES TAKEN AWAY?
— THERE’S TOO MANY FAGS IN THIS COUNTRY ISN’T THERE
— SHOULD ASIANS, MUSLIMS & BLACKS BE FORCED TO LOVE IT OR LEAVE BUT PROBABLY JUST FUCKEN LEAVE IT ANYWAY
— ARE THERE TOO MANY SLUTS OR NOT ENOUGH
— SHOULD JULIA GILLARD FUCK OFF BACK TO THE KITCHEN
— WHAT THE FUCK IS WITH ALL THIS BULLSHIT ABOUT FAGS GETTING MARRIED
but for real, this article about attitudes towards immigration is super depressing in every way
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look at this girl
I bet she got her hair done in a salon instead of over her best friend’s sink
look at her jacket
she looks exactly what I imagined she would look like
I feel bad about making fun of an 18-year-old but look at her
Loophole Community Centre in Thornbury (Melbourne) has been served an eviction notice. There is a meeting for all interested parties at 3pm today, at the centre. Loophole is home to Barricade Infoshop, Loophole Radical Community Library, bike workshop, Food Not Bombs kitchen, community space and gardens, and the caretakers who live there…and much more! Please support Loophole if you can. You can donate to Loophole here.
LOOK WHAT I’M WEARING RIGHT NOW. if this isn’t the best hoodie you’ve ever seen I wanna live in your world. that is a RAISED GOLD GLITTER ink on that print by the way. design is by local artist Marisa Lai!
anyway, these are being sold for AU $50 as a fundraiser for Hip Sista Hop and 3CR Community Radio 855am. Hip Sista Hop airs every Monday from 1-2 pm AEST (streaming live at 3cr.org.au for listeners outside Melbourne) and showcases primarily women’s and indigenous hip-hop music and culture, it’s a great program that plays awesome music. you should check out their facebook page as well.
the parent station, 3CR, is a radical left-wing community radio station that’s been on air since the 70s. they do a really good job of practising what they preach and not just being a voice of the latte left — the station broadcasts an amazingly eclectic mix of unionists, Indigenous activists, community language broadcasters, motley queers, young people, the very old, and music nerds, plus a majority of programmers and all senior staff are women. not every show is explicitly political — the station’s ethos of actively providing a platform for voices that aren’t heard in the mainstream media runs through everything they do, but what people do with that platform is up to them. it’s really respectful and hands-off. they also train more people in radio production than anyone else in Australia. there are as few barriers as possible to participation in 3cr.
what I’m saying is that you should send me a message about buying a hoodie. there’s also another design which is really good, a more old-school hip hop aesthetic with graf lettering, but I don’t have a picture of that one. the hoodies are really warm and high-quality and are made by Qualitops sweatshop-free labour right down the road from the 3CR offices. you can also possibly get other colour combinations if you order fast. I’d say sizing runs small, considering a hoodie should be slouchy, and I would suggest that women order men’s sizes unless you’re very short or very thin — I’m wearing a men’s S and I would normally wear an AU women’s 14/L, if that’s helpful. IT’S SO WARM. I’M SO HAPPY TO OWN THIS MAGNIFICENT ITEM.
ETA: this print run is almost completely SOLD OUT, they’re doing another one, if you let me know what size and colour you want ASAP then I can pass on the info and you can probably get a custom order with the new print run. there will defs be more gold and black men’s XS/S/M though.
contains graphic descriptions of racist police violence in australia.
Nassir Bare complained to the OPI in February 2010 that one year earlier, when he was aged 17, police had repeatedly struck his chin against the gutter, chipping his teeth, kicked his legs out from under him, kicked him in the ribs, sprayed him in the face with capsicum spray while handcuffed and told him ”you black people think you can come to this country and steal cars”. Mr Bare, who is from Ethiopia, is now taking legal action against the OPI and individual officers of the OPI for their decisions to refer his complaint to Victoria Police’s internal ethical standards department for investigation.
AS THE state government prepares to restructure public housing, feedback surveys given to tenants this month are available only in English, a foreign language for about half of residents.
Mere-Paore Epere, chairwoman of an inner-suburban tenants’ group, said the survey is a mystery to many residents. Ms Epere said the 4000 tenants represented by her group included African, Arabic, Chinese, Greek and Turkish speakers.
When she rang a contact number supplied with the document to ask if the survey had been translated Ms Epere was told it was available only in English. ”They said to get a friend of a friend to translate the questions, or a family member.”
While the 12-page survey is in English, it strays into a form of the language that might be described as bureaucratic gobbledegook, with questions such as: ”How can good tenant behaviour and mutual obligation be incentivised?”
“incentivised”, for realsies? omg
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VICTORIA Police has made secret payouts totalling tens of thousands of dollars to immigrant youths in Melbourne who have accused officers of physical brutality and racism.
The Age has learnt of confidential settlements between the police force and four African-born men and one Afghan who claimed they were beaten, falsely imprisoned or racially abused by officers in northern and western suburbs.
The financial settlements mean the allegations will never be heard in court.
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Police pay cash to bash victims
”If you want to f—- around with the police, this is what you get you f—-ing black c—-,” Abdi alleged he was told. ”I’ll f—-ing shoot you, you black c—-.”.
Mr Abdi claimed he was repeatedly punched and kicked, racially abused and held at Moonee Ponds police station for 11 hours without charge. His friend, Robert Koua, alleged police beat him with a torch and sprayed him with capsicum while he was handcuffed. The third youth, Jibril God, claimed
he was hit with a torch and called a ”black c—-”.
Actions brought by other African youths are still outstanding, including one in which Zacharia Matiang claims police came to his Williamstown home in April 2009 and accused him of stealing corn chips and salsa worth $10.60 from a shop.
Mr Matiang claims he was sprayed with capsicum and called a ”black c—-”, while his friend, Kot Gatlwak, was told by police: ”Get on the floor, you f—-ing black c—-. You black c—-s are all criminals. Go back to your own country.”
I hate everything today.
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Police used capsicum spray to subdue a 12-year-old girl in western Victoria at the weekend.
Police were called to a disturbance involving about half a dozen teenagers at Charisma Park in Horsham on Sunday afternoon.
Inspector Trevor Ashton says the girl wrestled with police and threw punches before the officer deployed the OC spray.
She threw punches!
and wrestled, people!
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