Luke Pearson

@lukelpearson.bsky.social

Gamilaroi. Anti-racism trainer. IndigenousX. etc

Or maybe, making sure people can afford housing, health care and basic necessities, are able to form community by not having to constantly move and are ensured financial security in one of the richest countries on earth might do it? How’s leaning right going for UK Labour? 🫠🫠🫠

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The govt isn’t ’failing to close the gap’ they are succeeding in creating the impression that they are trying to close the gap while ignoring all the evidence of what should be done to actually close it.

“the function of racism is none other than to provide a rationalisation of the existing state of affairs so as to make it appear to be a lawfully instituted order” (Bourdieu, 1961, p. 133)

Sophie Scamps MP: "At the very time the Government is welcoming President Herzog into Parliament House, with the entrance being officially lined with Israeli flags, Israel is moving to extend the illegal occupation of the West Bank thus undermining the hope for a two-state solution."

This is maddening nonsense from Albanese. Herzog is the President of *Israel*. He’s not the “head of state” for Jews. This transformation of Jews into some convenient monolith is perverse.

PM defends decision to invite Herzog to Australia
Nick Newling
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has backed his decision to invite Israeli President Isaac Herzog to Australia, saying it was appropriate to allow the Jewish community to mourn with the leader.
"He was [invited] because he's the head of state. He's the equivalent of the governor-general, and when the Jewish community asked for their head of state to visit. I think it is appropriate that people be allowed to mourn and to do so respectfully," Albanese told Triple M radio in Hobart.

“There were roughly 500 police deployed at Town Hall and an estimated 3,000 across the CBD. This scale was not accidental. It was a show of force. Police created the disorder they later claimed to suppress. This tactic is known. It is taught. It is deliberate.” michaelwest.com.au/this-was-pla...

This was planned. And Chris Minns owns it. - Michael West

NSW Police have assaulted dozens of peace protestors who gathered to protest the visit by Israeli president Isaac Herzog to Australia.

michaelwest.com.au

“If you pine for where you came from, and say I really want Australia to be just like the shithole I came from. You go back there.” Yeah, not like the ‘real Australians’. The ones who came here from England and complained relentlessly about how much it was not like England.

Video shows a man pinned to the ground as Australian police strike him repeatedly during an arrest. The man appears already subdued as blows continue. The incident occurred at protests in Sydney against Israeli President Isaac Herzog. Video: Jared Kimpton via X (@jared_kimpton)

I see no substantive difference between ‘From the river to the sea’ and ‘Always was, always be’… and I suspect that many of the people who want one banned would happily ban the other.

I’ve been thinking about how often we say that’ institutional racism isn’t reliant on intent’, which is true. At the same time, it seems relevant to note that there are numerous institutions who intentionally perpetuate and incite racism as part of their core business… and that business is booming.

"Why aren't media as outraged about the Perth bomb attack as there were over the Bondi shootings?" Dude, they aren't even as outraged as they were when Adam Goodes threw an imaginary boomerang.

One of the things that really sticks me is that now, a few days after Jan 26, many mob are still reeling, still hurting, still recovering… but in murdoch media rooms around the country they are counting up all the extra clicks and congratulating each other on another successful year.