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January 29, 2012
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yoisthisracist: Boots asked: Yo, how racist is this fucking Australian cartoon and the Rupert Murdoch paper that ran it? You know, every single day I get a bunch of racist assholes who write in with some kind of argument about how there’s no racism anymore and that I need to lighten up. So big ups to Rupert Murdoch for publishing this fucking insanely racist cartoon that stops just shy of openly lamenting that Australia wasn’t 100% successful in genociding their native population. PS: I wish there was some way you and your horrible son might actually go to jail. holy shit

yoisthisracist:

Boots asked: Yo, how racist is this fucking Australian cartoon and the Rupert Murdoch paper that ran it?


You know, every single day I get a bunch of racist assholes who write in with some kind of argument about how there’s no racism anymore and that I need to lighten up. So big ups to Rupert Murdoch for publishing this fucking insanely racist cartoon that stops just shy of openly lamenting that Australia wasn’t 100% successful in genociding their native population.

PS: I wish there was some way you and your horrible son might actually go to jail.

holy shit

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January 26, 2012
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Announcement: Stolen shoe apology. A very formal handback ceremony due to the great importance, will be held to return the stolen shoe in return for the stolen land.

In the meantime, julia will be provided a voucher for replacement footage only at specified shops. Footage from SBS and the ABC will not be acceptable as these providers may be too difficult to manipulate. No further mileage from the incident is to be made.

Julia will be eligible to make a shoe title claim which will take approximately twenty years or more before this is seriously considered. This will be dependant on Julia being able to show continuous connection with the shoe. This may be difficult to prove as she will not have had the shoe for 20 years.

Julia will also have to provide evidence she is a full-blooded shoe owner.

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— Jamms Shoe Title Collective, after Australian PM Julia Gillard lost her shoe in a scuffle with Aboriginal Tent Embassy protestors on Invasion/Survival/Sovereignty Day.  more.

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January 25, 2011
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Share the Spirit Festival

This Australia Day – otherwise known as Survival Day - Australian Indigenous culture and music will be celebrated at the annual Share the Spirit Festival. Presented by Songlines Aboriginal Music Corporation and the City of Melbourne, Share the Spirit will showcase some Victoria’s finest Indigenous talent as well as interstate guests all of whom will entertain in the true spirit of reconciliation.

Taking place every year on Australia Day Share the Spirit has been created by Aboriginal people for all Australians to come together and celebrate the country’s Indigenous culture through music, performance workshops, information stalls, and most importantly through personal exchanges between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people.

Featuring some of Australia’s top indigenous talent the day offers nonstop music  from artists such as Dave Arden, Lady Lash, Zennith (QLD) and OKA (QLD), Maza Sisters, Wurunjeri Dancers, Songlines Youth Choir, Songlines Hip Hop Dance Group, Brolga Boys, Jake and the Cowboys (WA) with MC Sherilee Hood.

Share the Spirit will also host community market stalls where Indigenous artists and designers from all over Victoria will be selling locally made crafts and gifts. There will also be a dedicated kids area filled with Indigenous crafts, face painting, circus activities and the popular Hip Hop dance workshops.

so the 26th of january 1788 was the day the first convict ship arrived in what’s now known as Australia and the day the continent was claimed for the British Empire.  officially the 26th of january is known as “Australia Day”.  it’s one of the most depressing days in the year.  the traditional combination of alcohol + white nationalism is always ugly and sometimes violent. 

Australia Day has dramatically increased in popularity over my lifetime.  I remember when I was a kid it was a bit of a joke, an excuse for a day off, but now lots of people my age actively celebrate it.  there are a couple of reasons for that — a popular hyper-nationalist government from 1996 to 2007, the Bicentennial in 1988, the Centenary of Federation in 2001.  Plus I reckon the Triple J Hottest 100 countdown (a popular vote listing the musical hits of the previous year) being moved to the 26th had a big impact — the average Triple J listener is young and vaguely progressive/alternative. 

anyway.  please don’t celebrate Australia Day.  please don’t go to a Hottest 100 party, it’s just as bad, don’t kid yourself.  I have a bee in my bonnet about the hottest 100, ok.  please stay at home or better yet, go to a Survival Day/Invasion Day event.  if you are in Melbourne, this looks like a really really great lineup.   I’m going to bed now. 

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