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3 Oct 2023
Ok. How about from the Shadow Indigenous Affairs Minister who spent over a decade working on the Voice on behalf of the LNP and then quit in disgust when Dutton declared for NO?
He knows more about the process and the politics than most. How bout him?
x.com/kenwyattam/status/1708…
If you are taking your advice on whether we should vote for constitutional race privilege from a rugby league player, or being urged to listen to such advice, be really careful who you trust to listen to.
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Cathy U’Ren retweeted
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21 Sep 2023
Utterly disingenuous.
Those wanting the Voice want a demonstrably marginalised people to have a say in how they are treated.
So that in the future, there is at least a chance that the “content of their character” might be the only thing they are indeed judged by.
Those wanting this voice really have reasoned, somehow, that they are happy to judge by the 'colour of skin' and not 'content if character' as per those immortal words.
How badly broken does your world view have to be to look down at ATSI people in that way!
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17 Sep 2023
“Politicians have failed at this for decades”
This hits home.
Well said Jason Clare 👏👏👏
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14 Sep 2023
You are the result of constitutional race privilege.
I know how she feels, I have similar feelings during a Welcome to Country.
“I had to sit down during the Australian national anthem…I doubt I know any aboriginal people who know the words to ours...they are so offensive." -Marcia Langton
#voteno to constitutional race privilege
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Cathy U’Ren retweeted
8 Sep 2023
Former Liberal MP Pat Farmer on the terrible cost of the Coalition’s wedge politics on #Voice, urges former colleagues to “dive inside your heart”, “stop fighting this so vigorously because the grounds you’re fighting it on are completely wrong”. #VoteYes
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Cathy U’Ren retweeted
3 Sep 2023
This is a pretty good and reasonable history lesson.
#VoteYes
3 Sep 2023
Brief history lesson:
Indigenous people (1788-onwards): *had almost everything they are, know and own taken*
Indigenous people (1901): *explicitly written OUT of Constitution by Deakin, who also authored the White Australia Policy and dehumanized Aboriginal people*
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3 Sep 2023
After taking their lands, their cultures, their languages, their family members, and their dignity they ask us to create an advisory committee.
And I fear we have the gall, the temerity, and the antipathetic acerbity to tell them it's asking too much.
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7 Jul 2023
Good.
The architects of Robodebt will be referred for criminal and civil prosecution after a royal commission handed down its report into the unlawful scheme today. ab.co/3PLw8rO
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17 Jun 2023
My office is helping out a partnership between the @lionsclubs of #Mudgeeraba and @AWLQ to collect good quality new and used pet accessories to help offset costs at Gold Coast shelters.
Drop in to the Firth Park office if you can help.
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16 Jun 2023
This could only ever have been written by a man. “If someone is accused of fraud, we are quite capable of keeping an open mind. Allegations of sexual crime weigh the other way.” Because being defrauded is exactly like being sexually assaulted.
@crikey_news this is not at all ok
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16 Jun 2023
The right response (aside from not publishing it in the first place)
crikey.com.au/2023/06/16/cri…
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Cathy U’Ren retweeted
4 Jun 2023
Read this - every single word of it. Australia is full of economist who do not dare say these truths. Every year they are wrong, yet they are still rolled out to say the same thing. And as for the RBA Governor, @1RossGittins doesn't miss
theage.com.au/business/the-e…
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Cathy U’Ren retweeted
29 May 2023
“The choice Australians will have later this year in the referendum goes beyond recognising the special place of First Nations people in the constitution. It also goes to the sort of national leadership we are prepared to endorse.”
satpa.pe/ailBIqX
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29 May 2023
A beautiful, entertaining and meaningful welcome to country at the @AustVetAssoc conference in Adelaide.
“We must take what we need not what we want. If we take everything then there is nothing”
Thank you Uncle Micky.
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28 May 2023
Thanks Paul! @canberratimes #insiders
28 May 2023
This is a brilliant piece of writing. Clear in its logic, searing in its truth:
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Cathy U’Ren retweeted
20 May 2023
The are people out there who still think that economic growth is the path out poverty for billions of people, despite all evidence to the contrary. If we want to reduce poverty, let’s do it. But we should stop pretending that growth is the solution.
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18 May 2023
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17 May 2023
'The proposed referendum on the Voice to Parliament is too important a contest to watch in silence.'
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This is the best full-page ad I've ever seen in the @FinancialReview by @RugbyAU #yes23
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