#jacinta price

[sublimeobservationarcade]

Racism Rules The Roost Down Under

The Indigenous Voice referendum was defeated and many proponents of it feel let down by the nation. The fact that Australia remains the only colonial new world state not to recognise its First Nations people constitutionally is a disgrace. Racism rules the roost down under. Aboriginals in outback regional areas voted Yes for a voice to parliament. So called ‘inner city elites’ voted Yes also.…

[globalzombie]

Brendan O’Neill discusses the pending (14 October) referendum & identity politics with Jacinta Price. 28 September 2023.

[2014federalbudget]

Anyone who voted no has my personal ire forever and is a racist piece of shit.

And people who voted """progressive no""" are stupid suckers who fell for easily proven disinformation :)

[nando161mando]

Leading No campaigner Jacinta Nampijinpa Price says she absolutely expects to help inform how a Voice to Parliament operates if the referendum succeeds — against her prominent campaigning, that is.

[cuprohastes]

The chant.

The Varshan Invaders had this thing: Unity.

They dropped Anjax, which was mostly just thirty farms raising the local safe-to-eat animals nicknamed Argnu.

The farmers had all read the briefing packets: If it's the Xss, the Dormavir, the Jince... run. Run n' hide. They'll eat you, literally eat you and that won't do you any good.

The Twon-hai, Gir and Tsush, they're slavers, they'll give up if you stand up to them. Expect up to 68% losses. Still better than what they'll do to you.

The Vershan, the On-dotir, the uHown or the Kelth... Jsut surrender, don't annoy them the Terran Colonial force wills how up and sort it, and there's a chance you can jsut persuade them to be chill and mark you down as Not For Conquering.

So anyway. The Varshan. They'll only take over if they think that the population are disUnified. It's their holy mission to reduce entropy via unity or something. They're pretty chill about it - Nobody gets sacrificed to the dark god, or put in the Castigation Pit - but it's a huge pain in the ass when you really need to be shipping Argnu Beef and not e.g. nonconsensually being inducted into an alien religion.

So they dragged everyone into one area and did their Unity Chant to show that they all were unified.

Then they sent thier guy out and planted a flag.

The next part is they grab some rando and tell them to "Show their Unity". This works well usually because you pick anyone form even a fairly smoothly integrated society and put them on the spot, they'll panic.

Which was why Jacinta Omura, 45, admin, completely bewildered, was dragged out in front of everyone she knew.

So she looks at the aliens who are all looking smug having done thier weird Haka, looks back at the crowd of farmers, and shippers and what-not... And it's her time to shine.

She strieks a pose, head down, one arm up, wide stance.

Everyone in the front row behind her are like OK Jace has flipped her burger here.

But then she starts to sing... Well chant. Not well, not nearly loud enough...

"Buddy, you're a boy," she says, voice breaking. She swallows and adds "make a big noise... Playing in the street, gonna be a big man someday."

Now her voice is getting a little more confident.

About this time the crowd behind her has started to pick up on what she's doing, and there's a ripple of people starting to back her up: The rows behind them catching on.

"You got mud on your face, you're a big disgrace - Kicking your can all over the place, singin'..."

She lifts both arms like she's conducting, and behind her there's the entire colony: clap-clap stomp, Clap-clap stomp, shaking the ground, singing, as one:

"We will, we will rock you! We will, we will rock you"

Well the Vershan were kind of impressed, because hey that ticks the box, and also, style points there. So they loaded up on Argnu meat at a good price so show no hard feelings and went off on their holy crusade to annoy everyone.

And that's how Freddie Mercury saved Anjax.

[rf-times]

A couple days ago, Australia had a referendum for our constitution to recognise Indigenous peoples (who have been on this land for over 60,000 years) and for an advisory council known as the "Voice to Parliament" to be created which would be comprised of Indigenous people representing their interests. It was based on the Uluru Statement of the Heart written by Indigenous elders. Over the past year there has been a horrific media onslaught of racist lies and fearmongering and the evil slogan "If you don't know, vote no" encouraging ignorant people to remain ignorant and consider learning about the Voice to be "too complex". Some Indigenous people were tokenised for the no cause, like Jacinta Price who claimed that there's been no negative impact of colonisation and only positive effects (her community ended up voting Yes and heavily criticising her) There was a small "progressive no" faction who believed that the Voice wasn't going far enough and we should fight for treaty first but ultimately the No voters were operating from an anti-Indigenous, racist perspective, spite and ignorance. Over 80% of Indigenous people wanted the Voice and every Indigenous land council in the Northern Territory were in support of the Voice. I was in a bubble of lefties, I had worried that No would pass but I did not anticipate how badly the Yes vote would lose. Not a single state voted majority yes and nationally fewer than 40% voted Yes. It's been a horrific time for Indigenous people, who have had to endure the media circus and now the continual reiteration that this country, built on colonisation and genocide, does not want to recognise them or give them a Voice.

[mariacallous]

Jacinta Allan is warning that the battle for abortion rights must continue as conservative forces pose “real and genuine threats to the protections women have fought for and won” amid “frightening” debate in South Australia and Queensland.

Victoria’s Labor premier made her strongest comments to date on abortion in an interview with Guardian Australia, just days before Queenslanders go to the polls in an election that has become dominated by the issue.

“I am deeply concerned that things that women, and men, have fought for for decades – in terms of strengthening the protections around women’s right to choose, women’s right to control their reproductive choices – is being used as a political tool,” she said.

“But even worse, there are real and genuine threats to the protections women have fought for and won. Legislation to protect their rights is being looked at being torn down at too many opportunities by conservative politicians.”

Abortion has been fully decriminalised in all Australian states and territories. Medical abortion is available until nine weeks’ gestation, while surgical abortion rules vary from 16 weeks in the Australian Capital Territory to 24 weeks in Victoria.

During the Queensland election campaign, Katter’s Australian party has promised to force a vote on a bill that would give registered health practitioners a duty to “provide medical care and treatment to a person born as a result of a termination”.

The KAP leader, Robbie Katter, has said he would consider introducing stronger legislation depending on how many conservative Liberal National party MPs are elected on Saturday.

The LNP leader, David Crisafulli, has been dogged by the issue for weeks and has refused to say whether he would grant his MPs a conscience vote.

This month in SA, legislation introduced by a Liberal frontbencher to force women seeking later terminations to be induced, deliver the babies alive and keep them or adopt them out was narrowly defeated by 10 votes to nine.

In Canberra on Tuesday the Coalition senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price told Nine newspapers there should be a national debate on the issue and likened late-stage abortions to infanticide.

Jane Hume, Sussan Ley and Bridget McKenzie – three of the most senior women in the Coalition – flatly rejected putting abortion on the national agenda, saying it was an issue for states and territories.

Allan said events had proved the issue was not confined to the political fringes.

“We’ve seen it in South Australia, in Queensland, this federal intervention from a federal senator … you look at what’s happening in the US,” she said.

“The message that sends to women, it’s frightening. It says all that work that has been done to protect your rights, to support your choice, is at risk every single day from these conservative forces.”

Allan said she would “fight for women to have their right to have their control over their bodies”.

She acknowledged that there was more work to do in Victoria, despite it being a leader in Australia in terms of access to sexual and reproductive health services.

“I know that, particularly for regional women, access to services can be a real challenge,” Allan said.

A report by Women’s Health Victoria published on Thursday found that seven out of 10 local government areas have no surgical abortion provider and one in five have no medical abortion provider.

The government said it had established 20 sexual and reproductive health hubs across the state, including in Ararat, Horsham and Melton – areas the report identified as having the highest rates of women seeking abortion.

The hubs offer medical abortion care and referral pathways for surgical abortion. Endorsed midwives have also been given the power to prescribe medical abortions and make referrals.

Work is under way to expand access to abortion in public hospitals, while Guardian Australia understands an announcement on the issue is also due soon.

[currentlyonstandbi]

Jacinta Price talking about how a 'no' vote made it clear that Australians are refuting the idea that we're a racist country . .. . read the fucking room, the outcome of this vote only PROVES we're a racist country

[sublimeobservationarcade]

We White Folk

We white folk live in a cocoon of well-off whiteness. We wander our white streets in search for bargain based happiness. Our mainly white suburbs buzz with the sound of expensive cars making their way to and fro from homes to high streets. Shopping centres are palaces of well-appointed materialism, where we frequent for retail therapy. Lives are lived with the sole purpose of endowering ourselves…

[post-futurism]

My prediction for the 2025 Australian Federal election is the liberal party will realise Peter Dutton can't win the election for the liberals but Jacinta Nampijinpa Price could. So they'll encourage her to join their party and promote her as the PM candidate and she wouldn't be the first female PM but she would be the first indigenous PM and the liberal party would present that as progression instead of the tokenism it is considering Price's stance on indigenous rights. I really hope this doesn't happen as well because she's wildly transphobic and just so terribly conservative.

[the-meaning-iz-42]

So in conclusion:

Peter Dutton has jumped from a non constitutionally enshrined voice as an alternative to the Voice, to just elect him as leader next election, because that apparently will work just as well

[tartlette1968]

I've been trying to write a deeper analysis of the Voice To Parliament.

In doing so, I've learnt more about it.

So, I'm voting "Yes", I was always voting "Yes", and I have two firm reasons for doing so.

The first is that Indigenous people asked for a Voice to Parliament.

The second is that installing it in the Constitution means it is more than a trendy "for now" piece of legislation.

That second reason is because as much as our pollies may have the best of intentions, they find all sorts of ways to drop the hard and heavy things, no matter how worthwhile these heavy things are.

Make no mistake, shaping and ensuring a Voice To Parliament for Indigenous Australians is definitely a heavy thing.

I have realised something, though.

There are two very broad categories people voting "No" fall into.

There are those who simply are scared to mess with the Constitution. They support, at least for now, the Voice.

Then there are the people who absolutely oppose the entire notion of an Indigenous Voice. Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price just presented a speech to the National Press Club arguing this position. Justifying it by maintaining that colonisation was good for Indigenous Australians. Then she actually said "they have running water, now". Her words speak for themselves.

Surrounding this debate is this misty halo of talk about Aboriginal culture, the nature and composition of the Constitution, and the fairness of the voting procedure in a referendum.

The 14th of October is the date of the referendum, and now that we're getting to the pointy end, things have gotten a little more uncoordinated. It reminds me of watching people trying to merge at peak hour. The overt racism has oozed out, and that is not helping any of us. It is the character of Australia, the nature of the nation that is naked, and on show here, and some are not happy that it has been brought out into the open. Yet this is the Australia that some of us encounter every hour of every day. The rest of us can turn a blind eye to it without much effort, usually. But not right now.

Anyway it is exciting, interesting, and worrying, too.

[cutebutalsostabby]

Voice Referendum P2

Some very weird anon just sent me a very weird anonymous essay about my post on the Voice referendum (link). I'm not going to give the essay itself any airtime, but I am happy to share some extra info for education purposes.

Terminology

The term "settler" refers to anyone non-Indigenous, regardless of ethnic background. Sometimes it is useful to be more specific, e.g. white, Asian, African and so on, but the Voice was a proposal created for the sake of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people (aka Indigenous, First Nations or Blak), therefore settler is a useful term to describe the non-Indigenous population - who were, unfortunately, invited to have an opinion on this matter.

The above is not to say that whiteness is totally irrelevant here: while I couldn't find any data on how different racial demographics voted, the survey conducted by Octopus Group and Accent Research (link) shows a telling correlation between those that voted No in the referendum and those that believed (falsely) that white people face more discrimination than Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

I also note ABC's analysis (link) that those living in inner city locations were more likely to vote yes than those in rural areas. There are a few ways you could interpret that; one of them is that inner city areas tend to be more multicultural.

Do White People Experience More Discrimination than Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People?

No.

Given the above graph, it's not hard to interpret how the anon that messaged me about "shitting on white people" voted, but it's really not hard to fact check this claim: even beyond the catastrophic breaches of human rights during the original invasion of so-called Australia - from murder to disease to destruction of land and property to forced evacuation to the death of several Indigenous languages - the effects of genocide continue today. Indigenous people are about 15 times more likely to be in prison and have a roughly 10-year lower life-expectancy than non-Indigenous people (source). Even before the Voice "debate" arrived, The Guardian reported that discrimination against Indigenous Australians had risen rapidly in 2021 (link). It only really takes a few minutes of independent research for any claims that the Voice would provide "special privilege" to fall apart.

I'm Queer and Have Racial Opinions, Hear Me Roar

Queer settlers are still settlers. Queer white people are still white. Specifically in regards to this part of the message I received:

im a queer woman in a relationship that is not heteronormative and i agree with almost everything the left wing says. i just think

I don't think this lovely lady did think so I'mma cut her off right there. Thanks for your very exciting opinion :) please dispose of it responsibly.

...So Now What?

Well, the vote has already happened, and unfortunately it was a No. Honestly, I'm a bit confused about receiving this ask now? Ah well.

As I said in my last post, I don't think settlers should have been voting on this in the first place, but since we were, I believe it was our duty to vote Yes. All past opinion polls showed that as the majority Indigenous opinion. I do respect that some Indigenous people voted No themselves, whether due to Jacinta Price's perspective on the "Voice of Division" or Lidia Thorpe's as representative for the Blak Sovereign Movement. Indigenous people are not a monolith, nor should they be expected to behave that way. In the case of settlers voting No however: I don't believe there is a good excuse for this. I think it was a racist result. I'm not overly surprised, but I am disappointed. Even so, the Voice was never going to be the end of it.

A few years ago, I made a commitment that at least 1% of my income would go towards paying the rent to Indigenous people (further info here). I've kept this commitment and would encourage others with an income to do the same. I've also written to my local MP to remind him of the unactioned recommendations from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody as well as the Bringing them Home Report.

I'd really encourage all settlers, in Australia or elsewhere, to find some way to get involved. Let's make use of our privilege and make the world a better and more equal place for all.

Thanks for reading.

[protoslacker]

This is a brave and smart article. While it is grounded in an Australian context, it is helpful for understanding racialized trauma and trauma in general.