Racism

Crossbench shares common ground not votes: @indigocathy comments on #IndiVotes leadership and #IndependentsDay hopes for @HelenHaines1

March 24, 2019

For six years Indi has been an example of a different kind of political representation. ‘The Indi Way’ has become part of the vernacular and my communities continue to celebrate the many achievements of Independence. We have acted in parliament on many issues since those very first ‘Kitchen Table Conversations’ in Indi. In 2013 they […]

Filed Under: #auspol, #ausvotes, #IndependentsDay, #IndiStory, #IndiTalks, #IndiVotes, #RecentlyPopular, Asylum Seekers, Cathy McGowan, Climate Change, Democracy, election2019, Front Page, Grass roots politics, ICAC, Indi, Leadership, NBN, Racism, Refugees, Telecommunications

Beaten and tired #refugees protest rough sleeping at East Lorengau after removal from #Manus RPC: @jansant reports

November 24, 2017

Refugees are currently holding a protest at the new East Lorengau prison on Manus upon discovering at least 65 are without anywhere to sleep, after being forcibly removed from the closed Regional Processing Centre (RPC). The refugees are protesting in East Lorengau bcz there s no room for them. immigration and police are not help […]

Filed Under: #auspol, Asylum Seekers, Civil Disobedience, Front Page, Immigration, Racism, Refugees, Wayne Jansson Tagged With: Asylum Seekers, Immigration, manus, Peter Dutton, Refugees

Pauline Hanson endorses kidnapper Mark Ellis for Macalister – @Qldaah #Pinkenba6 #qldpol

April 23, 2017

Mark Ellis was part of a group of six Queensland police officers who in 1994 dumped three children in the bush at Pinkenba.

Filed Under: #auspol, #Qgame, #qldvotes, David Marler, Front Page, Queensland, Racism, State Politics Tagged With: jackie trad, mark ellis, One Nation, Pauline Hanson, phon, pinkenba, pinkenba 6, pinkenba six

Don Dale abuses: Nigel Scullion went to dinner – @Qldaah #ntpol #auspol

July 28, 2016

Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion’s office was given advanced warning of the airing of the ABC Four Corners program, Australia’s Shame. However, the minister kept his dinner date.

Filed Under: #auspol, Corruption, David Marler, Democracy, Economy, Front Page, Mental Health, Racism Tagged With: 4 corners, ABC, abc four corners, adam giles, Australia, caro meldrum-hanna, don dale, indigenous, Malcolm Turnbull, nigel scullion, Northern Territory, Peter Dutton

How @margokingston1 saw Hansonism in 2004

July 10, 2016

Intro: Extract of Still Not Happy, John: Defending our Democracy (Penguin 2007) Democracy v. the Beast Her appeal was simply that she represented something authentic in a culture of artefact. She was transparent in an era during which the political class have become expert at concealment. She was a still point in a culture […]

Filed Under: #auspol, #KingstonReports, Asylum Seekers, Front Page, Hansonism, Immigration, Journalism, MSM, Racism, Refugees Tagged With: Australians for Honest Politics, Coalition, conservative, Fear, Federal Election, John Howard, Kim Beazley, Liberal Party, One Nation, Paul Keating, Pauline Hanson, Peter Costello, Piers Akerman, Tim Dunlop, Tony Abbott, Tony Jones

Part 13 of NoFibs Australian election coverage 2016: @Qldaah #ausvotes #auspol #qldpol

July 7, 2016

The final act in the Australian election campaign for 2016.

Filed Under: #auspol, #ausvotes, #ausvotes2016, #Qgame, #qldvotes, ABC, Asylum Seekers, Australian Progressives, Budget, Campaign Financing, Climate Change, Clive Palmer, Corruption, David Marler, Defence Force, Democracy, Disability, Economy, Education, election2016, Environment, Fairfax, Federal Election, Freedom of Speech, Front Page, GST, Health, Ideology, Immigration, Journalism, Labor Party, Leadership, Liberal Party, Marriage Equality, Media Reform, Mental Health, MSM, NBN, NDIS, New South Wales, News, News Limited, Opinion, Paid Parental LEave, Palliative Care, Palmer United Party, Parliament, Population, Press Gallery, Queensland, Racism, Refugees, Research, Retirement, Sexual Abuse, State Politics, Supperannuation, The Arts, The Arts Party, The Greens, Transport, Victoria Tagged With: #auspol, Australia, australian election, Ausvotes, Barnaby Joyce, Bill Shorten, Christopher Pyne, Coalition, Labor, Liberal Party, lucy turnbull, Malcolm Turnbull, nick xenophon

We need to talk about Pauline: @burgewords comments on #PaulineHanson

July 5, 2016

Like all political parties, One Nation sends mixed messages, and its followers are able to live with policy blind spots, just like other Australians. WITH no result on election night, it wasn’t too surprising when people came up to our market stall at Cleveland in South East Queensland on Sunday morning asking who’d won. We weren’t selling anything, […]