Luke Pearson
@lukelpearson.bsky.social
Gamilaroi. Anti-racism trainer. IndigenousX. etc
Oh wow, I bet the millionaires who designed this system are super embarrassed about their mistake… can you even imagine?
Australia's jobseeker system fails workers and enriches millionaires, report says
Maybe the ABC/SBS can just play all the footage in reverse so they can show Israel building schools and hospitals… and bringing the dead back to life.
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? 🫠🫠🫠
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.
So, Albanese said that they will double the number of jobs from the Remote Jobs and Economic Development program to over 1500 by 2027 and then ‘double it again’ by 2030,
"The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism" Huey Newton
“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)
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No more protesting thanks, that's it wrap it up it's not cohesive. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It appears you no longer have the right to protest | First Dog on the Moon
Police charged at people who could not flee due to being kettled. As always police say that is not what happened
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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."
Whenever we have a Labor govt I invariably end up feeling like Labor is England and Liberal is all the other countries that could have hypothetically invaded and… you get it.
NSW Police Minister saying to the people please don't antagonise the cops by, you know, exercising your basic human rights
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.
‘Man calls neo-nazi a racist’ is quite possibly the loosest excuse to platform a nazi and pass it off as news that I have ever seen.
“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.
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“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.
Just so we’re clear: Protesting a genocide and the invite of a man credibly accused of war crimes = unacceptable violence Police beating and detaining said protestors = justified violence
When we speak up against injustice we are being ‘divisive’. When they want ‘social cohesion’ they employ state violence.
Additional footage shows Australian police using force against other protesters: Video: David Shoebridge via X (@DavidShoebridge)
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.
Editorial: Tell me Australia, which is worse: signing bombs or making anti-bomb signs? preview.mailerlite.io/emails/webvi...
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.
“Ok everyone, Invasion Day is officially over for another year so you all know what that means!” *spins wheel of oppressed minority groups*
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.