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The last third of the book retells the story of the death of White Australia, the campaign for Indigenous rights and their legal affirmation. World War II weakened the discursive power of race, which was replaced by the universalist discourse of human rights promoted by the new United Nations. A race-based immigration policy became increasingly untenable if Australia did not want to become an international pariah like South Africa, and Indigenous Australians began to assert their rights, first to equal citizenship and then to land, self-determination and territorial sovereignty. The land rights revolution, resulting from the combination of the 1976 Northern Territory Land Rights Act and the 1992 Mabo judgement, has transformed northern Australia. Seventy-eight per cent of the land north of the Tropic of Capricorn has now been returned to Traditional Owners in one form or another. The outstation or homelands movement has seen thousands of people move back to their traditional Country, rejecting the official policies of assimilation and asserting their self-determination. This is unsettling unfinished business, a yet-to-be-completed process of decolonisation. Reynolds ends with the militarisation currently under way in Darwin as the proximity of the north to Asia has become a strategic asset for the projection of American power into the region in competition with China. Despite having legal rights over more than three-quarters of the territory and more of the coastline, Indigenous landowners have not been consulted. Has it even occurred to Minister for Defence Richard Marles that they should be?
November 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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(Astonishing plainspeaking and quite real: eg as confirmed by a frothing Rowan Dean on Sky Australia -apologies youtu.be/OuLEIHtUqos?... )

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@TheGuyPearce "I've never been so disgusted by a group of people in my life as I am by Israelis. Everyday I witness their utter disregard & disdain for Palestinian life. It is shameful & sets humanity further backwards with every vile act like this. " [Link to an Instagram reel] 4.40pm 21 Nov 2025
November 23, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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"Musk has a history of expressing antisemitic and racist theories. In 2022, he endorsed the “great replacement” theory that Jews were plotting to bring nonwhite immigrants to the United States. (His post about it is still up.) He has smeared Haitian immigrants as cannibals and attacked airlines for trying to recruit Black pilots. In January, Musk used a gesture at a rally that many historians viewed as a Nazi salute, and days later he urged Germans to “move beyond” Nazi guilt. Musk later said those framing the gesture as a Nazi salute were using “dirty tricks.” Musk’s social media app, X, formerly Twitter, has also become a hub for neo-Nazi influencers, after Musk restored some previously banned accounts. X also placed advertisements in the search results for extremist hashtags such as #whitepower. Musk created Grokipedia as an explicitly political project after having criticized Wikipedia as too left-wing. He took up the idea after a suggestion from Trump White House AI czar David Sacks. Wikipedia, founded in 2001, is written and edited by volunteers, many of whom are pseudonymous. It is among the most-visited websites in the world."
November 21, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Book cover 'On Being Human As Praxis' by Sylvia Wynter Katherine McKittrick ed
November 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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"A luminary of disability justice mvt” who wanted to see a world where people w disabilities, esp those of marginalized demographics who were people of color, LGBTQ+ people & immigrants, could live freely and have full autonomy over their lives and decisions."
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Alice Wong, as pictured in the Guardian January 2025. She is portrayed sitting outdoors in her wheelchair, attired in an elegant 'haute bohemian' outfit, the vibrant pinks and tonal ombre rainbow hues of which are set off all the more resplendently against the backdrop of verdant green foliage. She poses becomingly, with hands clasped and 'smizing' to camera, for her author photo.
November 17, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Meme: on a wooden table a lil birb (Me) sips from a green straw an iced green beverage in a glass goblet (Unsee Juice); tableau labelled (((Big sip)))
November 16, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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Still from home movie c.1933 of QE2, then aged about seven, with her mother, sister and uncle (who is teaching them to seig heil). Newlyweds Wallis Simpson and the Duke of Windsor meeting Adolf Hitler during a 1937 non-state informal visit post-abdication, as you do.
November 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Soup For My Family
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#AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe
#Treaty
"As the vote was confirmed, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags were unfurled from the public gallery, where the First Peoples’ Assembly co-chairs, Ngarra Murray and Rueben Berg, sat alongside fellow members and Aboriginal elders. The Labor, Greens, Legalise Cannabis and Animal Justice party MPs who backed the bill turned to applaud the gallery. “This is a historic moment for our people,” Ngarra said after the vote. “We will tell our children about today, and they will tell their children, passing down to future generations the story of how decades of Aboriginal resilience and activism led to Australia’s first treaty. “Treaty marks the beginning of a new era, one where First Peoples’ 60,000 years of knowledge and culture is respected and celebrated. It’s an opportunity for all Victorians to acknowledge our shared history, heal and move forward together.” Berg said treaty recognises that Aboriginal people are the experts on their own lives."
October 31, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Trump Why haven’t you let them out? Why have you not let them into your society? Turnbull Okay, I will explain why. It is not because they are bad people. It is because in order to stop people smugglers, we had to deprive them of the product. So we said if you try to come to Australia by boat, even if we think you are the best person in the world, even if you are a Noble [sic] Prize winning genius, we will not let you in. Because the problem with the people — Trump That is a good idea. We should do that too. You are worse than I am. Turnbull This is our experience.
October 29, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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📣 #fcknzs fashion PSA
October 25, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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'"If you approach a bird that doesn’t immediately stand to attention or go to fly away, or at least hop away, and you know it’s looking at you, then it’s in trouble,” says Bishop.

“It needs you to call somebody to help it.”'
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October 7, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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From Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_proven_oil_reserves
October 4, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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"We think it led to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in these remote areas working more than 30 million additional hours across that entire period," she said.
(And in the meantime yet more coloniser guff ↓)
"Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister and Northern Territory Senator Malarndirri McCarthy said Labor was already fulfilling its promise of dismantling the CDP. "We have invested more than $770 million into our new Remote Jobs and Economic Development Program to give First Nations Australians the dignity of real work, real pay and better conditions," she said. "Our program is a game changer and making a real difference in people's lives. It is grounded in self-determination and focused on economic opportunity and community development." The ABC has also contacted the National Indigenous Australians Agency and the department and minister for workplace relations for comment. The lead applicant is Aboriginal artist Serena Marrkuwatj Bonson, from Maningrida in the Northern Territory. The claim alleged that over five years, she received 17 penalties and lost income for four weeks at a time. Ms Nagy said the consequences of the program remained raw for many families. "Those feelings of shame and humiliation from getting cut off … those feelings are very close to the surface," she said."
September 30, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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Bluesky username Lucius Fox in the Box captioned a poster for the film 'One Battle After Another': Happy Black Maternal Health Week. Slide from Instagram account @abortionfundofohio's story captioned "The themes of Assata's 1974 pregnancy still echo true today - 50 years later." linked here https://www.instagram.com/p/C3GbpdwPRK0/
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