Emma
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Emma
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"When tangata whenua (people of the land) resist, colonial powers reach for the maximum penalty. This is a warning shot for all of us to fall in line."

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
Māori Party MPs suspended over haka protest in NZ parliament
In New Zealand, a parliamentary committee has handed down its punishment for the MPs who performed a haka on the chamber floor.
www.abc.net.au
May 14, 2025 at 10:14 PM
At least one country’s Parliament knows how to deal with shit fuckery. Well done New Zealand

m.youtube.com/watch?v=xrGO...
Maori song rings out as NZ parliament rejects push to redefine founding treaty | AFP #shorts
YouTube video by AFP News Agency
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April 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
“It’s an old racist trope, the idea of an “Aboriginal industry”….For him (Dutton) it is a useful prejudice. He has spent a long time passing racist thoughts for pragmatism.”

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/2025/01/11/d...
Dutton and Murdoch’s grift on Welcomes to Country
You can picture the staffer who thought of this, some slippery little Tarocash chancer. It would have been pitched as the perfect story for the quiet weeks of January, a chance to capture the news cyc...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
January 11, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Reposted by Emma
This is an issue that Pacific Islanders pretty much have second on the list of concerns re Australia after climate change - and most Australia wouldn't have heard of it

Pacific Labourers overtaxed and exploited in Australia - The Australia Institute australiainstitute.org.au/post/pacific...
Pacific Labourers overtaxed and exploited in Australia
The Pacific-Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme is often presented as being beneficial to all parties—Australia, Pacific workers, and those workers’ home countries. In reality, the benefits are we...
australiainstitute.org.au
November 15, 2024 at 2:05 AM