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Talking Politics
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Not sure one needs to be a Green to believe that not paying your side of the mutual obligation that societies are built on is wrong. Or believing that bribing politicians for water supplies and running local farmers' wells dry, while resigning the local population to drinking the contaminated *smile* left over is wrong.
And I think we'd find the Greens would be vehemently opposed to my views on the cult of identity politics.
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Yeah I had that nagging feeling too
Malcom Turnbull is considered something of a champion of climate change later in life as well.
But legislated for Adani mega-coal mine when he was PM.
Im not finding Tom Wills guilty,
just pointing out that history is littered with powerful people clambering to rewrite their epitaph.
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If he and Palmer don’t take the vaccine and if they get it. They would be both gone. The impacts of obesity make it a death sentence for these two clowns.People Are Raising Money To Send A “Huge Bag Of Dicks” To Craig Kelly
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Wills was a discerning man. He played with Aboriginals as children and learned their dialect and songs. The Aboriginal kids asked after him while he was schooling in England, where he helped cure homesickness by adorning his room with Aboriginal artefacts. Whether or not Wills undertook it as a money-making exercise, his later coaching of and playing with Aboriginal teams demonstrated he saw Aboriginals as individuals and not faceless, generic "blacks" or "natives".
In Queensland, Wills snr, relying on his experience with Victorian Aboriginals, felt he had succeeded in establishing friendly relations and was rewarded with having his brains beaten out. It is indisputable that Tom Wills hated those Aboriginals and wished them dead. There is documented evidence that Wills recuperated at a nearby station while initial reprisals were carried out, with later justice effected under the auspices of the Queensland Native Police. It's possible Wills may have been present at one or more of these sorties; there just isn't any evidence for it. Until now.
Which brings me to the letter itself. Rife with historical inaccuracies, the writer appears to be under the illusion that the massacre occurred at the family homestead in Victoria (and that Wills' entire family was killed and had their heads placed on sticks), whereas Wills actually arrived at the massacre site three days after the fact, whereupon the bodies had previously been given a quick burial on account of the fierce heat. This is almost enough on its own to disregard the letter or at least cast grave doubt on its bona fides. Elsewhere the writer compares Aboriginals unfavourably with kangaroos and other native animals and opines that the country is better for their thinning numbers (while being generally disparaging of Australians in general). The writer's anonymity, and the fact the letter was written more than 30 years after the massacre and 15 years after Wills' own death, IMO demands that its contents be taken with a considerable quantity of salt.
Like many historical figues, he had many enemies and wasn't without his flaws, however I'll be extremely disappointed if he's "cancelled" as a result of this flimsy and somewhat fanciful account.
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Also, I’d like his number so I can send him unsolicited texts. See how he likes it. Political parties exempt from do not call registers? Why?
As an individual, and not an organisation, am I exempt from the register as well?
they both would have been first in line for the vaccine.
textbook hateful cowardly *smile*
Palmer targeting indigenous communities with vaccine misinformation is a modern day strychnine in the waterhole.
What a load of tripe from Frydenberg.
They won't believe Joshy boy, they'll know.
"Mr Frydenberg said if markets believed Australia was not acting on climate change, it could have an effect on households and small businesses."
www.abc.net.au
They won't believe Joshy boy, they'll know.
"Mr Frydenberg said if markets believed Australia was not acting on climate change, it could have an effect on households and small businesses."
Josh Frydenberg publicly backs 2050 net zero emissions target, Barnaby Joyce gives tacit support
The government is inching closer to accepting a target to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050, with its most senior Cabinet member so far publicly backing a commitment.
www.abc.net.au
interesting that Frydenberg is playing the role of the bad cop dragging the LNP kicking and screaming towards climate reality. The leadership cadres have probably seen it as inevitable, but there needs to be a "debate" couched in economic terms to drag the rank and file into acceptance given they've been gaslighted by two decades of LNP/Murdoch climate change denialism.
There are signs that even Murdoch has accepted the inevitability of the science.
There are signs that even Murdoch has accepted the inevitability of the science.
Frydenberg has become more vocal, but it's coincided with News Limited/Sky's new mantra of nett zero in 2050.
Frydenberg is Fraudenberg in reality. He is just postioning himself to feed on SCOMOs carcass if they lose the next election.
He needs to be careful he doesn't lose his own seat. His seat of Kooyong and the neighbouring Higgins could easily move away from the LNP if a viable Zali Steggall type candidate appears
It's a shame that the Libs/Nats and the Greens didn't vote for the Emission Trading Scheme.
Instead of being dragged kicking and screaming to join the queue, we would be at the front of the queue.
The Greens really stuffed that up. The LNP can't see straight on this issue - but yeah, they had a chance to make it bipartisan and move forward, they chose to stick their heads in the sand to win an election.
No coincidence really as we all know who the government is actually accountable to.
Not sure that these submarines are necessarily the election winning strategy Scotty thought it was. We've been embarassed on the world stage.
Most worrying take out of that is when is the country going nuclear?
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Martin Flanagan had a whole page in The Age On Satrurday to counter a lot of the factual content of the US paper.This belongs in an indigenous thread, but they are just hateful places i dont go anymore, but this is a classic AFL response
Wills family descendant claims he sent information to AFL on Aboriginal mass murder claims years ago
A Wills family descendant claims he sent information to the AFL several years ago suggesting Aussie Rules pioneer Tom Wills had been involved in atrocities against Aboriginal people.
And your beliefs about our indigenous/colonial history and our/your place in it,
are irrelevant in this instance i think.
The AFL didnt respond.
