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TIL that Koori Radio's callsign is 2LND for "live and Deadly". very cool very accurate
#saw their stall at the Culture X festival in Ashfield on the weekend!#i listen to them every now and then#the music is often interesting and the people usually have things to say
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Celebrate NAIDOC Week in Sydney
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Celebrate NAIDOC Week in Sydney
NAIDOC Week is from July 7-14 this year and recognises the history, cultures and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Get ready to celebrate NAIDOC Week in July in Sydney, with this year’s theme of “Keep the Fire Burning! Blak, Loud and Proud.”
The National NAIDOC Committee has selected this theme to celebrate not only the survival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in 2024 but also their relentless spirit.
Brookfield Place at 10 Carrington Street near Wynyard Station is staging an exhibition of artworks by First Nations artists until July 12 and will host a live dance performance by Gawura Cultural Immersions at midday on Tuesday, July 9.
Gawura Cultural Immersions specialise in traditional Dharug song and dance, representing the custodians of modern-day Sydney.
NAIDOC in the City
A celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander music, dance, art and enterprise, NAIDOC in the City will take over the Sydney Town Hall on Wednesday, 10 July.
This year’s NAIDOC in the City event includes a free, all-ages, live music concert from 6pm featuring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists including hip hop icons BARKAA and JK-47, country stars Loren Ryan and Jarrod Hickling, and comedian Isaac Compton.
The concert is free but you are encouraged to book tickets online ahead of the event.
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Markets showcasing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, clothing, homewares and local services will also take place alongside dance performances in Lower Town Hall during the day from 11am to 4pm.
“We are committed through Koori Radio, Yabun and NAIDOC in the City to showcasing our best First Nations talent,” Elizabeth Wymarra from Gadigal Information Service said, ahead of the event.
“It is so important for us all to come together to celebrate and share our culture. We welcome everyone to come and stand with us.”
“I’m super pumped to host this deadly event right in the heart of Gadigal!” host of the night-time concert, Isaac Compton said.
“We’ve got an awesome lineup celebrating Blak Excellence, and I know you’ll feel the energy all night long. If your fire isn’t burning at the start, it definitely will be by the end of the night.”
NAIDOC in the City is produced by the City of Sydney in partnership with Gadigal Information Service.
Indigenous All-Stahz Mini-Ball
The Imperial Hotel in Erskineville is hosting a NAIDOC Week celebration of ballroom culture on Saturday, July 13 to raise money for the Bobby Goldsmith Foundation.
Kai Silky, Gusta Silky and King 007 are presenting the Indigenous All-Stahz Mini-Ball.
“This ball was created to celebrate blackfullas and our culture. We also want blackfullas to engage and enter ballroom culture as well,” organisers say.
“This ball is open to all walkers from any background but you must respect the space as an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander centric space.
“We are raising money for Bobby Goldsmith Foundation through our ticket sales, so any extra donations are welcome. The money is going towards mob living with HIV.
“If you are unsure about walking or wanna learn more we also have two Saturday night workshops available for mob to learn ballroom basics, vogue femme and runway. Free and catering provided.
“So come one, come all. Let’s all celebrate black pride and power.”
The Indigenous All-Stahz Mini-Ball starts at 2pm on the dot and ends at 7pm.
The 18+ event has free tickets for First Nations peoples and femme queens, or $20 for general admission.
The Indigenous All-Stahz Mini-Ball is a NAIDOC Week activity funded by the National Indigenous Australians Agency.
Tickets are available via Humanitix.com.
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Today is Australia Day, more importantly known as Invasion Day.
Koori radio tuned me into mob culture today and I rocked out with my son to a great fast paced tune with digeridoo.
We spent the day outside and when I touched the hot cement today I thought of the original people's connection with the land. How much of a comfort nature can bring and how it is the only thing worth worshipping. To me it also means to worship ourselves.
I felt healed in that moment and hoped that many more people could be healed through this reconnection with ancient mob culture.
Today I became in touch with an intention through deep inner work in the morning. What came through me was the desire for all people to feel in harmony with one another and to love wildly.
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Documentary films on 20th Century Aboriginal Australia
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Sister If You Only Knew (1975, 47 min)
Directed by Janet Isaac.This film explores the pressures experienced by Aboriginal women living in the city, and the effect that these pressures also have on their men and their children. In spite of all life’s difficulties, the women seem to survive the urban environment better than the men. Their humour, intelligence and resilience in the face of adversity shines through. When asked if they wanted to change anything in the content of this film, the participants’ response was “it tells the truth and that is what is important”.
88.9 Radio Redfern (1988, 54 min) [Image of Radio Redfern on Cope Street in 1989 (photograph courtesy City of Sydney Archives NSCA CRS 1133/5/31)]
An observational documentary which looks at Sydney’s first community Aboriginal radio station, 88.9 Radio Redfern. Set against a backdrop of contemporary Aboriginal music, 88.9 Radio Redfern offers a special and rare exploration of the people, attitudes and philosophies behind the lead up to a different type of celebration of Australia’s Bicentennial Year. Throughout 1988, 88.9 Radio Redfern became an important focal point for communication and solidarity within the Koori community.
Radio Redfern description from Barani Sydney’s Aboriginal History:
Maureen Watson and her son Tiga Bayles laid the foundations for Radio Redfern in 1981, when they started broadcasting for 10 minutes each week on community radio station 2SER 107.3 FM.
When Radio Skid Row (2RSR 88.9 FM) was allocated a community broadcasting license in 1984, it gave 10 hours of air time weekly to Radio Redfern. The station was initially broadcast from the University of Sydney, later moving to a terrace house on Cope Street in Redfern, still under the license of 2RSR.
Radio Redfern was considered the voice of the Aboriginal community in Sydney, and played a vital role in coordinating political protests against the Bicentennial celebrations in 1988 and Aboriginal deaths in custody in the early 1990s. Radio Redfern grew to have 40 broadcast hours each week, with all the announcers contributing their time voluntarily.
Videos from the Redfern Oral History Project
Boomalli - Five Koorie Artists (1988, 28 min)
Featured People: Bronwyn Bancroft, Euphemia Bostock, Brenda Croft, Fiona Foley, Fernanda Martins, Arone Raymond Meeks, Tracey Moffatt, Avril Quaill, Michael Riley, Jeffrey Samuels.
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Thundamentals Release Video & Acoustic Version For ‘Everybody But You’ + Announce 2018 ‘Got Love’ Initiative Following the release of their critically acclaimed, #1 Australian album I Love Songs, fueled by lead single 'I Miss You', Sydney trio Thundamentals today release the charming, nostalgic music video for album favourite single 'Everybody But You', one of triple j’s most played songs throughout October and November.
#Everybody But You#Got Love Initiative#Hip Hop#Jeswon#Koori Radio#Morgs#Oz Hip Hop#Rap#Thundamentals#Tuka
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Mirumo. Dying. In front of Shu. e.g. blood from his mouth, collapsing, etc. Break my heart as freely as you can. Just Do It.
“Thank you, Daddy.” Tsukiyama draws close enough to embrace his father. With these metal detectors, they’ll save Kaneki. He just knows it.
He knows Mirumo’s been scared of his association with Goat, too scared of changing to world to help the. Until now. Because when it comes down, Mirumo loves his son.
“Remember my advice,” Mirumo says.
“Don’t die and eat well,” Tsukiyama repeats with a laugh.
Mirumo touches Tsukiyama’s cheek. “You’re so thin, my boy.”
“Yes, well, we’ve been starving a bit. We’ll be okay. I’m still better than I was when Kaneki died the first time,” Tsukiyama jokes.
“Shuu,” groans Mirumo. “Never put me through that again.”
He gasps then, and jerks.
“Dad?” Tsukiyama’s eyes widen. The salty, metallic odor of blood is unmistakable.
Tsukiyama pulls back to see a gaping hole in Mirumo’s chest.
“DAD!” he screams.
A cloaked agent of V stands behind Mirumo, quinque in hand. He chuckles, but he’s immediately run through by Ui Koori.
“Mr. Tsukiyama,” gasps Ui, scrambling forward.
Tsukiyama catches Mirumo as his father crumbles to the ground. Blood oozes from his lips. “Dad! Dad!”
“We need a medic!” Ui yells into his radio. “Come on, Mr. Tsukiyama, you can’t die yet! You haven’t gotten revenge on me!”
“I’m…not…Mr. Tsukiyama anymore,” Mirumo manages. His eyes fall on his son. “I’m so proud…of you…”
“Dad,” whimpers Tsukiyama.
Mirumo gasps in one last breath before falling limp.
“No!” wails Tsukiyama. Tears stream down his cheeks. “No! I called him. It’s my fault.” Dad died because of my love for Kaneki, for real this time.
“It’s not,” Ui assures him, seizing the gasping V agent. “I promise.”
First Karren, now Dad. Tsukiyama sniffles. “We need to find Kaneki. I can’t lose anyone else!”
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Newspapers from Australia: Here is a list of the dominant free online Newspapers, Magazines, news websites, online television and radio channels from Australia having access to the current news on local and international affairs.
o ABC
o Adelaide Now
o Adelaide Review
o Advertiser (AdelaideNow)
o Advertiser (Cessnock)
o Advertizer (Ararat)
o Advocate
o Advocate (Burnie)
o Advocate (Daylesford)
o Age
o Albury Wodonga News Weekly
o Alexandra Newspapers
o Al-Furat
o Alice Now
o Alice Springs News
o Along the Grapevine
o Alpine Observer (Wangaratta)
o Area News
o Argus
o Armidale Express
o Augusta-Margaret River Mail
o Australian
o Australian Chinese Daily (Chinese)
o Australian Financial Review
o Australian Jewish News
o Avon Valley Advocate
o Avon Valley Advocate (Northam)
o Ballina Shire Advocate
o Bangla Barta
o Barossa & Light Herald (Barossa)
o Barrier Daily Truth
o Bay Post
o Bayanihan
o Bayside Bulletin
o Beaudesert Times
o Bega District News
o Bellingen Shire Courier Sun
o Benala Ensign
o Bendigo Advertiser
o Bendigo Weekly
o Blacktown Sun
o Blackwater Herald
o Border Mail
o Border Mail (Albury Wodonga)
o Border Watch
o Brisbane Times
o Bunbury Mail
o Bundaberg NewsMail
o Bunyip
o Burwood Scene
o Busselton Dunsborough Mail
o Byron Shire News
o Caboolture News
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o Camden Advertiser
o Campus Review
o Canberra City News
o Canberra Times
o Catholic Leader
o Catholic Voice (Yarralumla)
o Central Midlands and Coastal
o Central Queensland
o Central Western Daily
o Chaser
o Cheers
o Chinese Herald
o Chronicle
o Circular Head Chronicle (Smithton)
o Coastal Leader
o Cobram Courier
o Coffs Coast Advocate
o Colac Herald
o Collie Mail
o Courier
o Courier (Ballarat)
o Courier (Mount Barker)
o Courier Mail
o Cowra Guardian
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o Daily Advertiser
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o Daily Liberal
o Daily Mercury
o Daily Telegraph
o Darwin Sun
o Donnybrook Bridgetown Mail
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o Echo
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o Euroa Gazette
o Examiner
o Examiner (Launceston)
o Eyre Peninsula Tribune (Cleve)
o Farm Online
o Farm Weekly
o Flinders News (Clare)
o Fox Sports
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o Fremantle Gazette
o Geelong Advertiser
o Geelong Indy
o Gladstone Observer
o Glenorchy Gazette
o Gold Coast Bulletin
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o Hawkesbury Gazette
o Heartbeat
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o Herald (Naracoorte)
o Herald Globe
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o Hills News
o Hindi Gaurav (in Hindi)
o Il Globo
o Illawarra Mercury
o In My Community
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o Independent (Hervey Bay)
o Indian Voice
o Irrigator
o Islander (Kingscote)
o Katherine Times
o Kiama Independent
o Koori Mail
o Leader (Angaston)
o Liberal
o Lloyd's List Australia
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o Magnetic Island
o Maitland Mercury
o Malayalam Vaartha
o Mandurah Mail
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o Margaret River Mail
o McPherson Media
o Melbourne Observer
o Mercury
o Mercury (EN)
o Merredin Wheatbelt Mercury
o Messenger Newspapers
o Mildura Weekly
o Miner (Redan)
o Monitor (Roxby Downs)
o Moorabool News
o Morning Bulletin
o Murray Pioneer
o Murray Valley Standard (Murray Bridge)
o My Daily News
o Neos Kosmos: Greek Australian news
o New York Times Australia
o Newcastle Herald
o News
o News Mail
o Noosa
o North East Newspapers
o North Queensland Register (Townsville)
o North Shore Times
o Northern Argus (Clare)
o Northern Daily Leader
o Northern Rivers Echo
o Northern Star
o Northern Territory News
o Numurkah Leader
o Oberon Review
o Ocean Grove Voice
o Orange City Life
o Ovens and Murray Advertiser
o Perth Now
o Pilbara Echo
o Plains Producer
o Port Macquarie News
o Post Newspapers
o Queensland Country Life
o Queensland Times
o Quest Community Newspapers
o Range
o Recorder (Port Pirie)
o Red Flag
o REDFLAG - A Voice of Resistance | Forhtnightly socialist publication
o Redland City Bulletin
o Riot Act
o River
o River News (Waikerie)
o Riverina Leader
o Riverine Herald
o Rural
o Saturday Paper
o SBS
o Sky News
o South Gippsland Sentinel
o Spec
o Spectator-Observer Group (Hamilton)
o Standard
o Standard (Warrnambool)
o Star
o Stawell Times-News
o Sun City
o Sunday Times
o Sunraysia Daily
o Sunshine Coast
o Surf Coast Times (Torquay)
o Sydney Morning Herald
o Sydney Star Observer
o Tablelands Advertiser
o Tamil Australian
o Tarrangower Times (Maldon)
o Telegraph
o The Advertiser (EN)
o The Age
o The Age (EN)
o The Australian (EN)
o The Australian Financial Review
o The Courier
o The Courier-Mail (EN)
o The Daily Telegraph (EN)
o The Great Southern Star
o The Guardian Australia - latest news, comment, reviews.
o The Monitor
o The Monthly
o The Naracoorte Herald
o The Sydney Morning Herald (EN)
o The West Australian (EN)
o Times (Port Lincon)
o Times (Victor Harbor)
o Toodyay Herald
o Toowoomba Chronicle
o Torres
o Townsville Bulletin
o Townsville Bulletin
o Transcontinental (Port Augusta)
o Tygodnik Polski��(Polish)
o Unification/Edinenie (Russian)
o WA Business News (EN)
o Wagin Argus
o Walpole Weekly
o Warracknabeal Herald
o Warrandyte Diary
o Warrego Watchman
o Warwick
o Warwick Daily News
o Weekly Times
o West Australian
o West Coast Sentinel (Ceduna)
o Westender
o Western Advocate
o Western Australian Business
o Western Weekender
o Westerner
o Where I Live
o Whitsunday Times
o Whyalla News (Whyalla)
o Wimmera Mail Times
o Yahoo News
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DOBBY performing at Bedrock’s 2nd Birthday Blow Out at The Red Rattler (September 14th 2018).
DOBBY is a Hip Hop artist and drummer who proudly identifies as a Filipino and Aboriginal musician, and a member of the Murrawarri Republic in Brewarrina, NSW.
DOBBY is a skilled composer, and is the 2017 recipient for the bi-annual Peter Sculthorpe Fellowship. He has performed as a rapper and drummer for a variety of events such as BIG SOUND Festival, The Plot Festival, Yabun Festival, UNSW corporate and academic functions, Koori Radio events and at numerous NAIDOC celebrations across Australia. DOBBY is also a rapper and drummer for Sydney band Jackie Brown Jr in various events and festivals such as Wollombi Music Festival, Rabbits Eat Lettuce and Psyfari Festival.
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Still from ‘Onioni’ - new vid made by Koori with live drawing & effects on Kuki blaze’s remix of an early rehearsal. Check it on our vimeo page https://vimeo.com/276224348 or as featured on radio NZ recently https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/standing-room-only/audio/2018650688/kuki-koori-fat-freddy-s-drop-keyboardist-and-an-artist-vj
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Australia's Invasion Day: What Does This Actually Mean?
Ash Sharp Editor
Australia Day is a national holiday in which Australians historically have joined together in summer to enjoy a long weekend with the celebration of traditional Aussie customs such as atrocious beer, grilled kangaroo, and domestic violence.
There's a lot going on in Australia lately. A long-running discussion about Aboriginal rights has, of late, taken a wider identitarian turn. On Jan. 26, 1788, Captain Arthur Phillip landed in Sydney Cove, near where the famous Opera House was later built, to establish a penal colony. This is the date commemorated by Australia Day, and thus the target for the so-called 'Invasion Day' protests.
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Some of these protests demand change from the Australian government and action on the Uluru Statement From The Heart, a document put together by a concordance of Aboriginal leaders in 2017 which was rejected by the Australian Government in favor of recognizing Aboriginals in a constitutional amendment. Other protests are quite different in origin.
I love my country, I love being Australian, I celebrate being Australian almost every day. I do not celebrate it today. Today my heart is with our indigenous brothers and sisters and all the pain and turmoil they have suffered #InvasionDay 🖤💛❤️ pic.twitter.com/TfHer7kr6s
— Jona Weinhofen Ⓥ (@jonaweinhofen) January 25, 2018
The Aboriginal elder Tauto Sansbury told a small crowd in Adelaide that recognizing the hurt caused by celebrating on the day the first fleet arrived must be the start of a wider conversation.
“People have said there’s other issues to deal with, well no there’s not,” he said. “This is the first one that breaks down the barriers. Then we can move on to all of the other things that are not right for Aboriginal people.”
Perhaps Mr. Sansbury is right, and the future is in changing the date of the celebration of Australia as a concept to another. Alice Springs Councillor Jacinta Nampijinpa Price disagrees.
"Let’s be honest about where the argument to change the date comes from: a place of resentment, anger and now hate. The vitriol that has been directed at me, as an Aboriginal woman, for voicing my opinion and for encouraging a healthier way of thinking, has been far, far worse then any alleged racist sentiment claimed to come from the celebration of Australia Day.
Is changing the date some kind of quick fix to obscure the failure to solve our real problems? Symbolic acts have no meaningful impact on Australia’s most marginalized, so why then are so many so happy to invest vast amounts of energy into a meaningless symbolic act?
It is a pathetic attempt at appeasing resentment, anger, and white guilt."
Tarneen Onus-Williams of the "Aboriginal Nationalist" group Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance said
"F..k Australia, hope it burns to the ground.
People who celebrate Australia Day are celebrating the genocide of aboriginal people, waving Australian flags in our faces. It’s disgusting.
We don’t want the date changed. We don’t want to celebrate Australia Day at all."
Tarnee Onus-Williams
You might say Ms. Onus-Williams sounds like a bit of an extremist and generally I would agree. This week she called 3AW Radio host Neil Mitchell a "racist" for the slight of asking her if it was appropriate to use the state-funded Koorie Youth Council (headed by Onus-Williams herself) to use public money to promote 'Invasion Day' rallies. She also does not believe that White people's law applies to Aboriginals, which as I gather is a common sentiment among fringe groups.
For those questioning the genocide of the Aboriginal people, we must accept that there are technical grounds for her words. Between 1910 and 1970, up to 100,000 Aboriginal children were taken from their parents and put in white foster homes. According to the United Nations 1951 definition, this counts as a genocide. Granted, it's hardly gas chambers or Rwanda, but it was a messed up time regardless- with the youngest of these people still very much alive and part of society.
There's clearly a lot of work to go on between White people and Aboriginals to smooth things out. While I would make no apology for the rights of the descendants of the settlers, if Aboriginal people are indeed being treated unfairly in Australian society- that's a topic of discussion for Australians. What shouldn't be on the cards is the weaponization of this topic to advance agendas that are insurrectionist in intent. This is exactly what has happened in this 'Invasion Day' Movement. There will always be a conflict of interests between racial groups, and what interests me most is how opportunistic leftist ideologues capitalize on these issues, again and again.
This one leads me to many questions. As Bill Warner explains, Hijra is the Jihad of Migration.
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There is no common motivation for Muslims to support the rights of Aboriginals on religious grounds, but there is plenty to be gained from supporting identitarian movements that target White Australians. I do wonder what would happen if magically those troublesome Whites were evaporated from Australia. Would the interests of Islamists and Aboriginals still align under those circumstances? The other assessment I draw from this image is that again, we witness the alliance between Islam and the Hard Left authoritarians in the field of social politics.
White man 1: “so silly that they wanna change the date” White man 2: “I know right?? I like Australia Day being where it is. Screw catering for everyone” Yeah, but nah. I’d hate for everyone to get a celebratory holiday for the death of my family. #fuckedup #InvasionDay
— Sanie 🤘🏼🇵🇸 (@ArabAussiePunk) January 27, 2018
The oddity of course here is that people of non-White descent who follow a religion of conquest are now also Australians, but feel no allegiance to the nation-state that allowed them to become citizens. Rather, the stain of benefitting from the government of the oppressor is shrugged off. This time, the more recent immigrants are on the side of the people who are complaining about historical immigration.
ABC's Indigenous Affairs editor Stan Grant, himself of both settler and Aboriginal ancestry, approaches the truth with caution.
Australia Day feels angrier. It is a defiant flag in a window and a flag on fire at a protest. This is our age; what the Indian writer Pankaj Mishra calls "the age of anger". We prize identity more than citizenship.
Grant does hit the nail but is too confused in his blog post to strike it cleanly. Identity is indeed becoming more important than citizenship, as lines in multicultural societies are cracked open along religious and ethnic lines. A civilizational clash, so to speak.
Those who tack too close to the other side of the conflict are brought down by a storm of racist slurs.
Uncle Tom is a racist slur @EricHardcastle #auspol https://t.co/yECmdLZMGB
— Nyunggai W Mundine (@nyunggai) January 27, 2018
Are we allowed to call people like that coconuts?
— Unreality Enthusiast (@manbearcat) January 27, 2018
Warren Mundine is an Aboriginal advocate and successful businessman. His book teaches the value of self-determination and warns against victim culture. As he writes:
After the 1967 referendum, Aboriginal people started to receive equal pay across the board through a combination of changes to laws and industrial decisions over about a decade. For some regional industries, like the pastoral industry, this meant a huge jump in expenses. Most Aboriginal people in those industries had never actually received equal wages. Instead of getting a pay increase, they lost their jobs and were kicked off their lands. The pastoralists lost a cheap source of labor and weren’t willing or able to pay them full wages.
At the same time, Aboriginal people gained rights to government benefits, which previously they weren’t entitled to. So those who lost their jobs became full-time welfare recipients... Ultimately, the key to tackling long-term unemployment among Aboriginal people is the same as for anyone else. You have to address long-term welfare dependency.
For these radical ideas, Mr. Mundine has been called Uncle Tom -which makes no sense at all unless you recognize the globalist leftist movement as in some sense monolithic- and coconut; brown on the outside but white on the inside. Yes, an age of anger indeed. You must obey the perception of what radicals say is your racial interest, or you are a traitor. How can any society stand such flagrant bigotry against examples of success? Mr. Mundine's book is available here. I highly recommend you buy a copy, I have.
Here lies the issue. When the system is shown to be quite accepting of people provided they are willing to work hard and not give up despite adversity, this breaks the narrative. But whose narrative is it?
Frequent readers of these pages may already recognize where I am going to point the finger. Where does this anger spring from? I have suspicions. The rhetoric used is all too familiar to me, and to my former allies on the Radical Left. We can surely recognize that society is not perfect or that unfairness occurs without demanding the entirety of society be overthrown. That is madness.
Across the spectrum, on this issue, the same narrative is deployed in every nation founded by Europeans. Colonialism is the worst thing to ever happen, and it's because of that the indigenous people need to be protected from the society the White Man built. Because the personal fortitude exhibited by men like Warren Mundine breaks the socialist's framing of the world, the world must be redrawn along racial lines in order to sow division further.
It’s intrinsically about conflict, tearing down the old, using activism to impose your views on society. And don’t play the victim card with me when this whole campaign to change Australia Day is founded on perpetual victim hood.
— Bodywise (@BodwiseLisle) January 26, 2018
Thomas Sowell found the crux of this flawed mentality.
In the half century between 1945 and 1995, black Americans' raw test scores rose by the equivalent of 16 IQ points.
In other words, black Americans' test score results in 1995 would have given them an average IQ just over 100 in 1945. Only the repeated renorming of IQ tests upward created the illusion that blacks had made no progress, but were stuck at an IQ of 85. But we would never have known this if some researchers had not defied the taboo on studying race and IQ imposed by black "leaders" and white "friends."
Note well. Black intellectuals reject utterly the idea that non-White people cannot succeed in White nations. The idea that this is the case is an idea promoted by Neo-Marxists who wish to see the fall of Western Civilization in totality, in the vain hope that a socialist society will rise in its place. The racial causes championed by these radicals are mostly cat's paws. Once the bourgeoisie is finished, the ideological purging will begin again, regardless of how black you are.
The Neo-Marxist left is a global movement that is linked by recognizing very vague principles, like the equation of Whiteness with 'privilege' and, therefore, Capitalism itself. To fight Whiteness is to fight on the side of the good guys against the Evil Empire, so it goes. This mentality is unbelievably facile, but so open in interpretation that it can be applied to any situation where the blame can be laid at the feet of Whitey and/or Capitalism, which as previously stated, just means White People.
This makes it possible for British transgender mixed-race model and known racist Munroe Bergdorf (what a title!) to hold several conflicting ideas at once. I'm using Bergdorf as an example as there are few people who are so vehement in their overt ideological stances. Rest assured, Bergdorf is merely saying what a great many Neo-Marxists genuinely believe.
Bergdorf sees no conflict in having this as a pinned post in which she says;
"Don't let other people define you your identity is integral to creating change in the world"
"Don't let other people define you..." @i_D 😉 pic.twitter.com/WEl2S2H4uA
— Munroe Bergdorf (@MunroeBergdorf) December 20, 2017
This concept does not extend to Whites. White identity is toxic in nature. Bergdorf shows this to be her true opinion when she said;
"Honestly I don't have energy to talk about the racial violence of white people any more. Yes ALL white people."
One more time. Racism is a system that ALL white benefit from. Nobody is above or exempt. Regardless of how non-racist u consider yrself. Nobody is exempt from social conditioning or systemic racism. You can unlearn and be an ally but that doesn't mean you don't benefit from it.
— Munroe Bergdorf (@MunroeBergdorf) January 24, 2018
Finally, Bergdorf makes strong statements in solidarity with Aboriginals.
In solidarity with Indigenous Australians today. Austrailia Day is a cruel and white supremacist holiday. Call it what it is #InvasionDay #Genocide. Austrailia is stolen land. I stand with you. pic.twitter.com/ADdtD6PJ6w
— Munroe Bergdorf (@MunroeBergdorf) January 25, 2018
In solidarity with Aboriginal Australia ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾 #InvasionDay pic.twitter.com/bzBkzRwLN4
— Munroe Bergdorf (@MunroeBergdorf) January 26, 2018
Naturally, when it is pointed out that Bergdorf is in fact a racist the victim card is deployed. Land rights only matter when the newcomers arrived 250 years ago and are White. This is a consistent aspect of racial advocacy.
Angry white people calling for me to be deported... LMAOOOOOOOO. Deport to where?! The entitlement.
— Munroe Bergdorf (@MunroeBergdorf) October 13, 2017
The flaw in the logic is clear, for which we must thank Bergdorf for being so open. The only possible reason for Bergdorf and her ilk to say such things is that they are in fact Hard Left racist activists themselves. If Australia is indeed "stolen land" and "always was, and always will be aboriginal", then Sweden always was, and always will be Nordic. France for the Gauls. Poland for the Polish. Europe: Always was an always will be European land.
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Twitter user Old Holborn cuts straight to the point.
Interesting new approach from the left. "no immigration, no diversity, fuck multiculturalism" https://t.co/dchW4TbxEr
— Old Holborn✘ (@Holbornlolz) January 26, 2018
So it would certainly appear to all who are not far left fanatics. It cannot be reasonable to demand diversity and multiculturalism in one moment and then advocate for an ethnostate when it suits. Yet, this is where we are with the modern leftist. Western countries may not have borders, borders are for Nazis. 'Nations of Color' must have the right to expunge the Whites from their land. The press will ignore or support these ideas, as it can only be ethnic-cleansing when Whites do it. The double standards expressed by the left will, either intentionally or not, further deepen racial tensions. It is happening already, as White people are discovering a racial identity politics that is not actually racist at all.
Despite being told that Whiteness is toxic for several decades, the descendants of Europe have shown fantastic politeness and restraint in the face of severe problems brought about by migration- to the point of near certain demographic suicide in some nations. It is thanks to overtly racist activists like Bergdorf, Tarneen Onus-Williams and their American analogs such as Shaun King that racial consciousness is even a topic among Whites- particularly when it comes to the perception of racial bias against White people. As Michael I. Norton and Samuel R. Sommers discovered;
We asked 417 black and white respondents to assess how big a problem anti-black bias was in America in each decade from the 1950s to the present. We then asked them the same questions about anti-white bias — the extent to which they felt that racism against whites has changed since the 1950s.
Black and white Americans both thought anti-black bias had decreased over the decades. Whites saw that decline as steeper and more dramatic than blacks did, but the general impressions of the trend were similar for both races.
When asked about anti-white bias, though, black and white respondents differed significantly in their views. Black respondents identified virtually no anti-white bias in any decade. White respondents agreed that anti-white bias was not a problem in the 1950s, but reported that bias against whites started climbing in the 1960s and 1970s before rising sharply in the past 30 years.
When asked about the present-day United States, a striking difference emerged. Our average white respondent believed that at the time of our survey in 2011, anti-white bias was an even bigger problem than anti-black bias.
The entire concept of the Alt-Right or modern identitarianism is a product of Hard Left racist activism. I would argue that in the United States this trend towards Whites feeling victimized is only likely to continue, particularly with 5 more years of the Obama administration to come after this survey. From the events surrounding Australia Day, we can see a mirroring of the race-politics that were deployed by Neo-Marxist groups like Black Lives Matter so perhaps the path is a similar one. Perhaps Australia is priming to be made great again.
Institutionally, Australia now seems set for achieving the exact opposite of what diversity measures are set out to achieve.
Dr. Tim Soutphommasane is Australia's Race Discrimination Commissioner. in 2016 he wrote the following piece for ABC entitled "Is Australia a Racist Country? On the State of our Race Relations."
Our immigration program is now one that makes no discrimination on racial grounds. The status of citizenship is open to all members of Australian society, regardless of their ethnic background or national origin.
This does make it hard to sustain the view that Australian society is irredeemably racist. It is hard to square that assessment with our reality and celebration of cultural diversity. About 28% of our population was born overseas; another 20% are the children of migrants. Public acceptance of diversity and multiculturalism is also strong and robust. The Scanlon Foundation's social cohesion survey in 2015 found that 86% of Australians believe that multiculturalism is good for the country - a level that has been consistent the past three years.
None of this should be taken to mean that racism is not a problem. Unfortunately, it still is.
Dr. Soutphommasane goes on at length to talk about representation in the media and the problems caused by a perfectly reasonable suspicion of Islam.
As he focuses on relative minutiae, he misses that the very concept of diversity quotas or the granting of special privilege to religious groups is anathema to a free society. Despite all the evidence that Australians are hugely non-racist, he sees his role -as many other left-wing academics do- to stamp out racism, among white people in particular. As bigots will always exist, one cannot make such an impossible quest happen without resorting to tyranny.
This is not to say bigotry for the sake of bigotry should be acceptable, but the path Australia has taken is no more effective at improving race relations than electing Barack Obama was in the United States, or the ascension of Sadiq Khan in London.
Representation is meaningless if you simply supply access to power to leftists because they call you a racist if you don't. It never works the way it is thought to do by anyone except- drum roll please- leftist ideologues.
Councillor Price, who we met at the top of the article, is completely correct. Invasion Day is an exercise in appeasement. If Australia Day is changed, it is a small victory for the leftists who move onto another topic, emboldened. If the calls are ignored, the leftists still win- they can come back next year and the year after. Forever. The ideological roots of this movement belong to Mao, Stalin, and Pol Pot. These people, of many races and backgrounds, are part of a long march of their own- like a virus, the ideology of Communist thought crosses the generations, seducing the young with stories of noble rebellion against imperialist devils.
If Australia is to resolve the issue of Aboriginal identity, first the topic of Hard Left Neo-Marxism must be addressed. Without this resolution, the divisions in Australia will only grow deeper. As I have shown, Australia is not a racist country, by the admission of Aboriginal leaders and the Race Discrimination Commissioner. What it does have a problem with are hardcore ideologically motivated leftist radicals. That is the true invasion of Australia.
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The Gadigal Information Service was founded in 1993 and is located in the building of the ancient National Black Theatre. The Koori Radio was the ancestor of the Gadigal Information Service. It was a community radio which took an important role during the civil right movement. For instance, the Koori Radio broadcasted information during all the “Survival day” in 1988.
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Related Story: Hey Hey red-faced over blackface skit
“Canada — it’s just like Australia, right?”
That’s the sort of small talk I got all the time after moving to Melbourne from Vancouver.
Fair enough — but people weren’t very happy with my answers.
It turns out people weren’t asking because they wanted to hear how shocked I was by COON cheese in the supermarket, or a display of golliwog dolls in a prominent Melbourne shopping arcade.
Eventually I realised the problem.
People were seeking praise and positive reinforcement — “Australia is wonderful/beautiful/just like home” — and I was committing the social faux pas of answering their question with observations of difference.
But my experience as a newcomer to Australia couldn’t be separated from my lived experience.
I’d lived in four countries before moving here, and as a journalist and person of colour, I cannot ever recall a time in my life that I didn’t take note of difference — and my place within that context — as a matter of survival.
Photo: Hey Hey It’s Saturday featured a blackface performance in 2009. (Supplied: Channel 9)
So, when the infamous Hey Hey It’s Saturday blackface performance happened in October 2009, not long after I’d arrived, you can imagine how those small talk conversations went.
I was struck not only by the fact that the incident had happened at all, but that the debate afterwards was over whether blackface itself is racist.
To my eyes, there was no other way to see it, but, based on the media coverage, that wasn’t the case for many Australians.
As other blackface incidents surfaced on social media in the intervening years, the same debate bubbled up.
In February 2016, Opals basketballer Alice Kunek posted a photo of herself on Instagram as a blackface Kanye West, for which she subsequently apologised.
Yet it was her teammate Liz Cambage, whose father is Nigerian, who experienced online abuse for calling it out.
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“You know, I cop that all the time: ‘It’s just makeup,'” says NITV presenter Allan Clarke, who commented on the Kunek blackface controversy at the time.
“I have to think, well, if my grandfather or grandmother was watching that, it would be terribly painful. It’s a deeply complex feeling for myself, being Koori, and I’m sure for African Americans as well.”
A common defence of blackface in Australia is that it has a different history here than in the United States.
But that’s not entirely the case.
“Basically blackface was here within a couple of years of when it was created in the 1830s in the US, and it went on right up into the 1950s that you had blackface sketches,” says Maryrose Casey, an associate professor with the Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, who studies racialised performance.
“It was particularly popular [from] about the 1850s, 1860s, up to the 1920s,” she says.
“As a form of racialised caricature in Australia, when they performed on the goldfields they incorporated anti-Asian [views] because there was a lot of anti-Asian feeling on the goldfields.”
When incidents like these happen, or when someone is caught on tape racially abusing another person on public transportation — an event that happens with enough regularity that we now think of it as a specific category of racism — the inevitable question lurches into public conversation: is Australia racist?
This preoccupation is curious to me, and as part of my new podcast It’s Not A Race, I’ve been asking people what they think of it.
Because for me, that question misses the point.
Those who think Australia isn’t racist will always answer no. Those who think Australia is racist will always answer yes.
I doubt those sides will ever meet, and the conversation goes nowhere.
Photo: Journalist and broadcaster Stan Grant says the question “is Australia racist?” misses the point. (ABC Radio: Conversations)
It’s also a maddening question, because at the same time that it provides cover for those in need of examining their beliefs, it also creates a noisy, hyper-charged environment that makes it very hard to do just that.
“It’s a question that we hear a lot, it’s almost a reflexive thing,” says ABC Indigenous Affairs editor, Stan Grant.
“The moment a racially tinged, racially motivated incident takes place, that question is front and centre.
“I prefer to ask the question: How are we racist, in what ways does racism express itself in Australia?”
That question seems apt, but what else could we be asking? Who should be doing the asking, and who gets to answer? That’s what I want to know.
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Boomalli is an incredibly important art gallery to Aboriginal artists, at all stages of their careers, as they do not have to navigate the politics of the non-Indigenous art spaces in Sydney and can be more actively involved in how their work is shown and managed. These tools hand back control to the artists.
Boomalli, Bangarra Dance Theatre and Gadigal Koori radio have all contributed to greater expression for Aboriginal Australians in the wider community and have created an important platform to perform and share their stories, art and music, all very important elements of the Aboriginal communities.
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Day 4 BLUESFEST 2015
Bluesfest 2015 Day 4
Bluesfest 2015
If Saturday night at Bluesfest 2015 was the night of one word descriptions, Day Four goes down in history by being the day of four words – Oh My F*%king Goddess!!!
Where else in Australia can you see the following live acts all at the same festival, all on the same night?
Here’s a quick roll call;
Diesel, Watussi, Nikki Hill, Blue King Brown, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Angelique Kidjo, Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals and Mavis Staples.
Truly!!!
We woke up the afternoon of Day 4 a little later than expected as Nanna Naps sometimes fool you when you don’t set the alarm. This set the scene for the rest of the evening as it was more a matter of just going with the flow (and really, what else does one do at Bluesfest?). With this in mind, the night laid out an eclectic and mesmerizing smorgasboard of musical taste sensations to once again graze on and that nourished and sustained the very core of us all. If only there were seconds available. Yum!!!
So here goes Day 4 in no particular order.
By chance, I had to head back to the car to grab some jackets and on the way out heard this amazing vocalist as I walked passed The Delta Stage. I kept on going to the carpark, and when I returned and stopped for a moment , I realized it was Diesel, up there on the stage all by his gorgeous self. Everyone’s favourite American-born, Australian music legend did it all one man band style last night, with just his guitar/s, harmonica, drum machine and of course that honey coated husky voice of his. Swoon…
After bursting onto the Australian live scene in 1986 as ‘Johnny Diesel & The Injectors’ and a subsequent solo career from 1991, Diesel (Mark Lizotte) still continues to bring it everytime, and the crowd was loving the trip down memory lane. I caught Johnny Diesel and The Injectors at The Arts Factory/Piggery, Byron Bay back in my early highschool days, so I, along with everyone else at The Delta Stage, was reliving times past when he broke out “Soul Revival”. With a career spanning more than 25 years, over 35 singles, 13 albums, 6 ARIA awards and record sales edging 1 million, Diesel is a journeyman of music. With blues music in his DNA, Diesel has blended styles to come up with a unique sound, punctuated with his distinct guitar playing and soulful vocals. Amongst all the spectacular international acts on hand at this years Bluesfest, it was also refreshing to be able to catch one of the last true pub circuit live Aussie acts. Wow!!!
Nikki Hill hit The Delta Stage just as I was chowing on down into a big juicy chicken burger next door at the Burger Yard. Often coined the new queen of soul, Nikki hails from North Carolina, and was influenced mostly by Little Richard. Nikki comes by her Deep South soul honestly. This blues shouter and growler is a bona-fide rock’n’roll diva that has audiences wrapped around her finger. As I was grooving in the Burger Yard, I thought to myself, imagine if Bluesfest secured Tina Turner one year. It must have been the burger, mixed with Nikki’s rock chick sweet soul style that made me wonder. We listened to Nikki’s cd on the way to Bluesfest on day 4 so it was great to be able to catch her live.
I fully love me some Watussi, the more live the more better too. I met these guys somewhere back in 2005 at Koori Radio 93.7fm Marrickville when they were just starting out on their musical journey, so I have a special spot for them on my insides! These Sydney based Afro-Latin-rockers, led by Colombian born compadre Oscar Jimenez, with their unmistakable distorted riffs and funked-up percussive rhythms brought to Bluesfest 2015 a dance extravaganza with new exotic South American rhythms to celebrate the band’s 10 year anniversary. The last few years have seen the group support performances with acts such as Santana, Earth Wind & Fire, Seun Kuti, Manu Chao. These brothers need to be booked for Mardi Gras and have their own float!!!
Mavis Staples shared on stage, "We must all work towards peace, because without peace and equality society cannot move on and become better,". This really set the scene for her live set. It made me think about all the acts at Bluesfest, and that while many of the younger generation of groups sprout peace, unity, freedom etc, profusely, sometimes even stopping their set to explain the virtues of the struggle, other acts such as the legendary Mavis Staples was there in the frontline and embeds her music with the very essence of what the youth Bluesfest acts very rarely encounter. Grammy Award winner MAVIS STAPLES was voted as one of the 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll, and Rolling Stone listed her as one of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. MAVIS STAPLES is the real deal. In her 67-year career – from her ground-breaking family gospel group – THE STAPLES SINGERS ‘I'll Take You There’, ‘Respect Yourself’, ‘If You’re Ready (Come Go With Me)’ and on her own, MAVIS STAPLES is responsible for blazing a Rhythm & Blues trail, while never relinquishing her Gospel roots and it is now that her star is shining brightest. Mavis Staples has publicly stated that Bluesfest is her favourite festival of all time. The crowd went wild (in a very self respectful way) when this inspirational 75 year old Aunty belted out the her song ‘Respect Yourself’. The lady don’t lie!!
It would not be a real Bluesfest experience without the next act, BKB, another band with a strong social message who started their career jamming in the streets of Byron Bay over a decade ago. Lead singer Natalie Pa'apa'a offered a clear message for her audience.
"Our music is dedicated to the Aboriginal people of this country and of all nations, because they know what is like to be alienated by a system that does not work for us, that needs to be changed," she said.
The message '#sosblackaustralia' was projected into the stage's background during their show a number of times, referring to the campaign against the possible closing of remote Aboriginal communities in Western Australia.
"Australia is the only country in the world that did not sign a treaty with its Aboriginal people after colonization," said Pa'apa'a.
BKB also invited Yirrmal Marika up onstage to perform Yothu Yindi’s Djapana and Treaty, which made the crowd go absolutely wild. For a local (my Grandfather was born at Tyagarah, where Bluesfest is held), Aboriginal South Sea Islander like myself, it always blows my mind when Aboriginal culture is embraced by the masses with such Respect and Love. Awesome!!!
I have been blessed to see ANGÉLIQUE KIDJO, Grammy Award winner, tireless campaigner for women’s health and education in Africa, a UNICEF Peace Ambassador and also, with a 20 year discography, 12 albums and thousands of concerts around the world, a gifted performer and prolific songwriter, many many times (in South Africa, Sydney, Melbourne and at Bluesfest 2 or 3 times). This woman never fails to impress me live, and as always gets the mob up and dancing. Her no nonsense style of interacting with the punters whilst on stage is very old school, and her pride as an African woman is undeniable. Last night at The Crossroads Stage, Anjelique had the tent packed and up dancing all the way through her act. Even the lantern paraders couldn’t help but come in and proceed up and down the aisles. Such is the magnetism of this amazing woman.
Rodrigo y Gabriela, the internationally acclaimed Mexican acoustic rock guitar duo who have won the hearts of many Australians music fans (including all of us at Bluesfest) are returning with their unique instrumental blend of Rumba Flamenca including elements of Rock, Metal, Jazz and World music. Rodrigo y Gabriela will also be bringing their latest release and first studio album in five years with them; 9 Dead Alive.
Rodrigo Sanchez and Gabriela Quintero have been playing together for more than fifteen years. First as young Thrash Metal fans in their native Mexico City, then as innocents abroad and street musicians in Dublin, Ireland at the turn of the millennium, and finally as the globe-straddling, film-scoring, record-breaking artists they are today including career sales in excess of 1.5 million albums, and sold out tours worldwide including headlining at London's Wembley Arena, just two weeks before they played Bluesfest 2015.
Rodrigo y Gabriela are known for their exhilarating live shows, the extraordinary interplay between Sanchez’s fiery lead lines and Quintero’s phenomenal rhythmic battery, creates a sound which is truly universal. It was liberating to be able to experience music without lyrics, and it was so cool to see the capacity filled Mojo Stage audience getting right behind this dynamic duo. Their appeal is boundless, their scope limitless, and the music timeless, we were all wowed by Rodrigo y Gabriela at Bluesfest. Footstomping galore was going down at this pefomance, in and out of the mud. Big Fun Indeed!!!
The much anticipated reunion of BEN HARPER & THE INNOCENT CRIMINALS at Bluesfest on Easter Sunday (April 5) went down into history as one of the major events on the 2015 Festival calendar. It was the bands ONLY performance in Australia. When brother Ben hit the stage, there were still people coming into the greater Mojo compound. An artist such as Ben Harper and his music needs to be heard as far and as wide as possible.
Another amazeballs evening of great music, vibes and company.
After a beautiful night under The Moon and experiencing great live music, beautiful hearted people and awesome food, as I walking out of the festival site proper I turned and said to my mate, “wouldn’t it be good if the world was like this all the time”, then quickly shifted focus and added, “in fact I take that back, ‘cos if the world was like this all the time, we wouldn’t appreciate it’.
Oh, and did I mention that Stunning Moon...
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