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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · Aug 6

But using a nation platform to humiliate such an operation is bullying. I guess a bit of manufactured outrage works well as click bait.

Censorship of frontier conflict is not from volunteers or small outfits. The state institutions publishing nothing online or otherwise seems blatant censorship IMO

Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · Aug 6

So if it’s impossible how is it “censorship”, the next sentence admits it’s cost prohibitive btw…An 80 yo,not for profit business, publishing niche books for local libraries and researchers not bookshops. It’s not UWA Press or Fremantle Arts. Poor editorial decisions are not censorship.

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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · Aug 6

I can’t see corruption 😆
“The change drew accusations of “jobs for mates” from across the aisle, with a string of former colleagues and one-term MPs elected under Mark McGowan being appointed to powerful, influential or lucrative roles.“

www.watoday.com.au/national/wes...

‘Jobs for the boys’? Labor slashes wait times for ex-MPs to join WA government boards

Previously, a member of a state government board or committee was ineligible for remuneration if they were a member of parliament within the last 12 months.

www.watoday.com.au

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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · Aug 4

Who is pretending it’s impossible? Cost prohibitive, yes.

Yes it is a form of censorship and cultural institutions steering away from controversial topics is also. Difference being that’s the role of an institutions publication program but not necessarily a micro not for profit publisher

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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · Aug 4

All cultural institutions have had budgets for digitalisation since late 90s (not enough) so choices are made, those choices are a form of censorship.

SLWA chooses to publish this online. Don MacCleod? Pilbara strike only thing close slwa.wa.gov.au/stories/wa-h...

WA history | State Library of Western Australia

slwa.wa.gov.au

Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · Aug 4

It’s copyright free, go ahead and reproduce it yourself

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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · Aug 4

highlights how much you have missed the real censorship story.

Why didn’t the state library publish it online like so many other artefacts? Again a small unprofitable press making a poor decision is not censorship

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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · Aug 4

No I have no relationship at all but have been involved in cultural institutions for decades. I know Hisperians whole reason for its existence is because the museums and libraries were not providing access to their holdings.

Not only an unnecessary swipe to the main information, it’s triviality
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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · Aug 4

Were there financial restraints? Do your article based on others research but don’t malign a small NFP. Isn’t the real censorship question about why the state library, museum or media didn’t bother to reproduce the diary and code online or in print over the last decades? Who is getting a free pass?

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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · Aug 4

Totally unnecessary punching down. Story is fine better include more @kateauty.bsky.social or Owen knowledge than your judgment. God help us when the media becomes an arbiter of censorship. Petty at best and considering all the other censorship that operates through official channels it’s laughable

Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · Aug 4

There is a story of censorship of history in WA but it’s not Hisperian Press. It is the media, government, government inquiries, police policies, institutions and commercial interests. It’s multifaceted and requires effort to unpack.

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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · Aug 4

It also wastes time and energy by ignoring real censorship which operated through Royal Commissions (like Canning route RC transcripts reproduced by Hisperian) or Forrest River Massacre court and Inquiries, Ugle Inquiry set up by the government of the day…knock yourself out covering real censorship

Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · Aug 4

Any chance of touching on Mary Kostakidis case?

Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · Aug 4

You’re not a qualified historian? Yeah sure, a small NFP press run out of backyard is ‘censoring history’ not government or institutions? This is laughable except it wastes time of the trivial rather than a big picture and the violence which actually occurred documented and ignored by today’s media

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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · Aug 4

A gripe against one book is a disproportionate response and unbalanced. A response which the Guardian only occasionally touches upon. There are lots of source material for frontier violence, perhaps report on those publications rather than slagging of a NFP press ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworks/7230/

Dark deeds in a sunny land: or Blacks and whites in North-West Australia

The frontier of European settlement in the colony of Western Australia a hundred years ago stretched way beyond the south-western corner to the far north, and pastoralists were pushing steadily inland...

ro.ecu.edu.au

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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · Aug 4

Punching down on Hisperian Press. Seriously? Not WA Museum or the old history departments at Universities over here, government funding policies … Hisperian Press does a fantastic job at reproducing original source material which is invaluable to historians.

Perhaps speak to Professors at UWA etc

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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · Aug 3

It’s a different legal system. Not everything revolves around the USA.

Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · Aug 3

www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_B_...

Australian protesters ‘outraged’ over Israel’s war on Gaza, government’s ‘complicity’: Analysis

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Aug 3

Thousands took to the streets of Melbourne too in solidarity with the people of #Gaza.

(📸 Shazl Harro)

A lady is walking along the street holding a large banner which says;
Australian Jews Say Sanction Israel.

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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · Aug 3

“Along with the horror at what’s happening in Gaza, there was also a palpable sense of anger towards Minns and, to a lesser extent, the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, over Australia’s fence-sitting.”

Not fence sitting, his government is supplying military material, supporting US policy

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Aug 3

NEW: Incredible scenes in Sydney, Australia today as tens of thousands march for Gaza, demanding an end to the genocide.

#MarchForHumanity

(🎥 Ema Franklin)

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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · Aug 3

There are more suppositories of wisdom that could be included in his eulogy

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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · Aug 3

Obituary should add George Pell was his moral compass, and in his spare time wrote a character reference for convicted paedophile priest and unsuccessfully shirt fronted Putin.

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LisaZed 👩🏻‍🎨 🌏 🐨🌳 @lisazed.bsky.social · Aug 3

AP:"Thousands of demonstrators marched across the Sydney Harbour Bridge on Sunday in support of Palestinians. The bridge was closed to traffic for longer than expected after the group changed its route."
Get your facts right AP - the protestors did not change
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Thousands march across Sydney Harbour Bridge in support for Palestinians in Gaza

YouTube video by Associated Press

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Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social · Aug 3

Showing the world what Australia stands for. The Australian government doesn’t represent Australian values www.bbc.com/news/article...

Sydney Harbour Bridge: Tens of thousands turn out for pro-Palestine march

The Sydney Harbour Bridge was closed by the march, after it was authorised to go ahead by the Supreme Court hours earlier.

www.bbc.com

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