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Nine key lies told about the Voice to Parliament

“No” campaigners Kerrynne Liddle, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, Nyunggai Warren Mundine and Michaelia Cash. The ‘disinformation’ (read: lies and bullshit) being propagated about the indigenous Voice to Parliament by the Murdoch media, among others, harms our society. It promotes division, celebrates and cultivates ignorance and bigotry, oppresses a minority and...

The astonishing lies of the no campaign burn like lurid rockets in our sky. We must not go saying no

I can’t believe this old line is running wild again. We have had land rights decisions (“They’re gonna take your house and barbecue pit, mate”); the Mabo decision (Again, “They’re gonna take, etc,”); followed by the Wik judgment of 1996 (“Mate, your swimming pool too!”); and now that crude...

Colonists upended Aboriginal farming, growing grain and running sheep on rich yamfields, and cattle on arid grainlands

Yam daisies on the left, cattle on the right. Cutting out the cattle, Kangatong/Eugene Von Guerard, 1856 , CC BY-SA Bill Gammage, Australian National University First Nations readers are advised this article contains references to colonial violence against First Nations people. In 1788 the First Fleet brought two bulls and four cows from...

Why The Voice will lead to better government decision-making

Olympic champion Cathy Freeman has called on “all Australians” to vote Yes for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament while declaring her support.The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to parliament will result in systemic and sustainable change in government decision-making and policy formulation affecting First Nations peoples. Here are...

John Farnham The Voice To Parliament Campagain

The Australian music legend John Farnham has lent his iconic song You’re the Voice to the referendum’s yes campaign, backing calls to insert an Indigenous voice to parliament in the constitution. You’re the Voice will soundtrack a new series of ads from the Uluru Dialogue to be released in a...

Qantas considers paying back JobKeeper

PM Anthony Albanese gifts Chairmans Lounge access to his son. WTF. Then Anthony Albanese arranged a work placement at PwC for his son while vehemently declaring his son is a private person and should not be put under the spotlight by the media. WTF twice. Perhaps one or two of...

It can be a battle to get information from the Albanese government

Grattan on Friday: It can be a battle to get information from the Albanese government Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra Thank goodness for Senate committees. This week, they’ve proved, yet again, to be worth their weight in accountability gold. On Monday, at an inquiry into the cost of living, senators from both sides...

Peter Dutton and the right assume the majority of Australians are racist bigots

An ugly gambit lies at the heart of Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s stance on the Voice to Parliament, and that is his assumption that most Australians are boorish, racist bigots so unmoored from reality that any conception of common humanity naturally eludes them. Dutton obviously doesn’t imply so much in...

Millions skimmed off government welfare contracts

Outsourced employment service providers are funnelling millions of dollars in government funding earmarked for people on welfare through their own companies, related entities and labour-hire outfits, creating paper empires out of their impoverished clients. Under the $6.3 billion, five-year Workforce Australia model, private and not-for-profit job service providers are able...

We won’t fix inflation while economists stay in denial about causes

Led on by crusading Reserve Bank governors, the nation’s economists are determined to protect us from the scourge of inflation, no matter the cost in jobs lost. But there’s a black hole in their thinking about the causes of inflation, only some of which must be stamped on. Others can...