Open Thread – Mon 18 Sept 2023
1,013 responses to “Open Thread – Mon 18 Sept 2023”
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When I joined my new outfit I followed my natural tendency of ignoring and opposing hierarchy. After all, we were an engineering outfit.
On day two I wandered down to the kitchen to make a cup of tea.
When I pulled the milk out of the fridge a very earnest young engineer declared “do you realise that that milk is out of date”.
“Ah ha, we are a matched pair”.
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JC,
With respect to the very valuable contributions you bring to this blog (stupid, f**king, w**ky stoushes notwithstanding), Russell Brand has value in that he shows intellectual change and integrity is possible in the midst of cultural degradation.
HYaving been of the Left (and shown love, adoration and riches while he was so) and yet having gravitated away once those values were seen to be hollow and unsatisfying, should he not be uplifted? This is a soul that is moving towards universal truths.
When Kanye West came out as a Christian believer, I was admittedly disdainful. I thought it was a ploy to gain more followers.
My beloved younger son pointed out a very real truth: If we as believers do not believe in his redemption and sustain him, who will? It is very, very easy to tear down and criticise. So much harder to build up and uplift.
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Luzu sure, what you say can’t be discounted. The Right loves redemption and second chance, and I think that’s a goodness that shouldn’t be diminished. I just remember the things he said about some people on the Right and the way he put them down. It doesn’t matter, because who am I after all. I find it difficult to forgive. But if others feels different that’s okay too.
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We can argue all we like about how the fire started, but there’s no doubt whatsoever that firstly, there was no warning, none, and secondly that the police were blockading the roads out and preventing people from leaving. We’ve heard this over and over and even seen film of it. How can that be explained?
INTENTIONAL DEATH TRAP “If I had listened to the Police..I’d Be Dead” Lahaina Fire Survivor Story
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Motorcycles.
He took it easy on this lap. One simple mistake and the morgue awaits. Riders and family know it and they accept it. People calling it to be banned can f*off!
Good fun.
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JC,
Thank you very much for asking. I have had no more information other than that he is alive.
As to Brand’s previous insults towards those he felt were his political enemies, can we not give space to people who come to realise that they were wrong? I understand that you are not a Christian believer but in my own walk (really shoddy and spotted that it is), I have seen so much evidence of people turning away from previous beliefs.
Brand is a fairly tortured soul, one looking for validation and satisfaction wherever he can find it. I really think that is the nature of addiction. I don’t know his background but I suspect it was dysfunctional.
And yet having been immersed in the fleshpots (and drugpots) of the world, he has emerged. He has somehow retained a part of himself that knew there was more.
And he found it in the most conservative of spaces – hearth and home. All credit to his wife – she held out to him something infinitely more valuable.
The parable of the shepherd, 99 sheep and the lost one is so instructive here. Let us rejoice that a lost soul (with all that lostness entails) has begun to work his way home. If you want to throw caltrops in his way, that is on you. Personally, I want to be in that cheer squad that is cheering wildly and encouraging him on. It is a thing of beauty to see a man become all that he can be
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This is Rhys Westbury
Obviously another but fully dressed cute owl, with that wonderful long blonde hair.
Rhys is a limp wristed greenie with a severe case of NIMBY itis. For him it is not the useless fuking wind towers but their location which interfere with a higher greenie priority, namely whales. A real cute owl like this little beauty would whip his smooth, hairless arse.
Check your glasses HP, they’re obviously frosting over.
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The video was well made. Kudos.
Tina Turner – We Don’t Need Another Hero from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (fan made video)
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DrBeauGan
Sep 19, 2023 7:58 PM
Russell Brand grew up and turned into an adult human being. Lefties hate that, because they get stuck before age three.Anyone who carries on with all that Eastern spirituality crap has not grown up. He is just another celebrity with too many opinions who should shut up and go fishing.
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John H.
He speaks about Jesus as being Lord and Saviour. My closest spiritual belief is Messianic Judaism. Let us allow the King of the Universe (and I really do love that Jewish title given to our Creator) to impact his creation (and Russell Brand falls under that) as He wishes. You and I do not get to tell our Creator how He may speak to His people.
I love the story of Jesus speaking to the Cannanite woman and her request for mercy. He said (quite rightly) that He had come for His own. But her response (in faith) that even the dogs eat from the crumbs from the table (I believe that God’s mercy is abundant and overflowing) moved His heart. He granted her request.
Can we not accept that God’s mercy (and wisdom and righteousness and lovingkindness) might also have spilled onto Russell Brand that he can in turn convince others through the testimony of a changed life?
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I actually believe Brand has tried to rein in his yetzer hara, through marriage and the gift of children. Marriage and children generally tame men. The ‘yetzer hara’ in Judaism is the inclination to do evil, violating God’s will. In Judaism ‘sin is considered part of life’, there is no perfect human being and everyone has an inclination to do evil however we are born sinless. If we sin, we can change our ways.
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“The past few years have revealed the risk to economic development that comes from strong one-sided dependencies on primary products from abroad,” the central bank said in its monthly report. “There is still a need to reduce dependencies on China — especially for primary products that are very difficult to replace.”
The stark warning came as Germany’s foreign minister Annalena Baerbock called on Europe to reduce its reliance on China, voicing her support for the EU’s investigation into electric vehicle subsidies by Beijing.
Is this prepping for a confrontation with China, turning the screws on the Chinese economy, turning to the US economy, or all of the above?
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I told you weeks ago. That was Baris’s considered opinion.
Okay fair enough, but I’m making too many concessions this evening. 🙂
The big condition is that the Demons can pretend he’s alive until then. Imagine if the corrupt douchebag croaked and the Demons just made AI images of him through the election cycle pretending he’s still alive. If AI imaging was more advanced I would not that past them.
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Cassie,
Yetzer hara might also be called original sin.
I recently had the opportunity to speak to my beloved colleagues at work as to why I did not believe that the ‘alien biologics’ spoken of by the various US agencies were real.
The Bible tells us that all of creation groans (cries out, suffers) because of the weight of sin that was caused by Adam. Now, if I am a being from some distant star (planet, asteroid, celestial rock – take your pick), how can I be considered to be guilty of that sin and therefore part of that dislocation or separation? Why should I bear the consequences? Is that just? I am not human and therefore not of Adam.
I once had it explained to me this way. If your grandfather had died when he was three, would you exist?
The answer is quite clearly no.
Therefore, where were you when Adam sinned?
The very obvious answer (to those who do not subscribe to the idea that we descended from some ape-like ancestor) is that we were in his loins and therefore present when he sinned.
Just as the potentiality of us was present in our grandfather’s loins when he was three.
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Anyone who carries on with all that Eastern spirituality crap has not grown up.
I don’t see any substantial difference between religions. You have to be slightly batty to take any of them seriously. So either most of the population has never got to adulthood, or Brand has but is slightly dotty in a marginally different way from most.
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Give ’em a good serve – and vote them out next time:
A group of Melbourne councillors have voted against a controversial proposal to lobby the government to change the date of Australia Day after the idea received huge community backlash.
Bayside councillors voted no unanimously to the proposal to lobby the federal government to change the date of Australia Day.
Following huge community backlash over the past 24 hours, where thousands of people emailed Brighton state Liberal MP James Newbury with their concerns, the councillors have back the majority of their constituents.
In a heated discussion on Wednesday night, councillor Clarke Martin expressed his disappointed in the conduct preceding the council meeting.
“We are a council, we get recommendations every week. Someone went off and wrote to our constituents that we would be changing what we do on Australia Day tonight,” he said.
“It’s really disappointing to see someone mobilising people over what really is a beat-up issue.
“I’m looking forward to us moving on, hopefully we get a yes vote (in the referendum]) and then we can have a real conversation about how we treat our Indigenous brothers and sisters.”
The meeting comes after a survey revealed more than two thirds of Bayside’s ratepayers support January 26 as our national day.
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feelthebern
Sep 19, 2023 7:16 PM
Brand shouldn’t be de-monied for what are currently accusations and the cops are still investigating.
100%.
Keep in mind, Gary Glitter’s catalog is still generating revenue for the owners.
I think he sold it to a private equity mob.Do you want to touch me? Yeah!
Where? There? Yeah? Oooooh!
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And there are bloody big differences between the various religions.
It’s like seeing huge differences between the so-called races. If you think it is really important, really matters, what ‘race’ you are, the differences between races looks huge. If you’re indifferent, the differences are negligible.
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Dear DrBG,
What a sweetheart you are. But a little naive when it comes to human motivations. What seems to you to be tiny variances in beliefs has caused untold suffering (Gates of Vienna, anyone?)
Being a materialist really doesn’t insulate you from the reality of a few others being religionists (or whatever word you prefer).
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There are two separate and distinct issues in my mind about Russell Brand.
1. The career destroying rail-roading based on untested and anonymous complaints which haven’t been the subject of charges, much less tested in court? Unquestionably wrong.
2. He has always been an opportunistic narcissist, so I am very, very wary of his recent “Road to Damascus” moment.
It is possible to simultaneously defend his right to the presumption of innocence and be suspicious of his political authenticity. -
Senator Steele-John says there are still times when he can’t fully access or be involved with community experiences.
“Like, when you go to the beach, and they haven’t put a wheelchair ramp in down to the sea. You just have to sit there while your friends do that,” he says.
“In those moments, you think, ‘This is bad because this change hasn’t been made’. Not, ‘This is bad because I am broken’.
When he lands in Katmandu and realises there isn’t a wheelchair ramp to the Everest base camp, let alone to the summit, I’m sure he’ll maintain this reasonable and self-affirming perspective.
It probably doesn’t need to be said, but…I’m not saying there shouldn’t be wheelchair ramps to the sea. However, rocking up to at any old beach and expecting there will be one there waiting for you to roll down seems a little unreasonable.
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What seems to you to be tiny variances in beliefs has caused untold suffering (Gates of Vienna, anyone?)
That’s because negligible differences don’t look negligible to the true believers. And is additional evidence that they are all batty.
Some want to conquer in the name of Jesus, some in the name of the prophet. I think they’re both bonkers.
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The Christian believers will pray for you. The Muslim will put a knife to your throat. Tell me again how you find them equal.
I didn’t say they are equal. I prefer the Christians, at least the old-fashioned sort. But only some of them. The Christian mob who murdered Hypatia were as vile as any Muslim terrorists.
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Meanwhile in the Territory:
A young Territorian who died from sniffing deodorant after being sectioned at Royal Darwin Hospital last year was the victim of “a litany of failures”, a court has heard.
NT Coroner Elisabeth Armitage on Tuesday began an inquest into the death of the 24-year-old, referred to in the Darwin Local Court as Ngalarina and by the pronouns they/them.
In her opening statement, counsel assisting Chrissy McConnell said Ngalarina had been involuntarily admitted to the hospital in January following a history of mental health and substance abuse issues.
On January 31, Ms McConnell said doctors approved ground leave for Ngalarina, meaning they could leave the facility while staying within the hospital grounds accompanied by a security guard.
“The security guard who was to accompany Ngalarina for all ground leave was not told of Ngalarina’s history of volatile substance abuse and was of the understanding that his role was confined to monitoring the patient and ensuring that they didn’t run away,” she said.
During one trip through the hospital grounds that afternoon, Ms McConnell said Ngalarina bought two bottles of deodorant and later went for a shower before a different security guard alerted a nurse that he had not heard from them for 10 minutes.
She said the nurse unlocked the door with a pair of scissors and found Ngalarina unconscious on the floor next to an empty deodorant can and they could not be revived.
“Ngalarina’s death has been identified by Dr Luke Butcher who is the institutional representative for the Department of Health as a sentinel event,” she said.
“That is an event where something preventable goes wrong with a patient’s care which causes the serious harm or death of a patient.”
Ngalarina’s mother Averly Wakuranhawuy told the court she “sat there for two days, crying” after she learned of her child’s death.
“I was asking them questions and one doctor said to me ‘He was OK, he was happy on that day’,” she said.
“He asked him where you want to go back to, he said ‘To come back to home where my mum (is)’ and I was thinking ‘What really happened to him?’ because everything was good.”
Ms Wakuranhawuy said she now thought about Ngalarina whenever she walked around her community of Milingimbi where Ngalarina grew up.
“Every time I see the breeze coming in I always think about him because he was my loved one even though he (drove me) crazy,” she said.
“I’m very happy that he’s in a better place now, I don’t need to worry.”
The inquest continues on Wednesday.
NT News
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The female mathematician made so fashionably tragic by the beautiful Rachel Weisz?
How many women have been murdered recently for the same reason as opposed to by Koran believing men?
You had to go all the way back to Hypatia for an example rather than the real world around you. Does that not tell you something?
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Went to an oyster bar in Shinjuku tonight.
Totally excellent.
Massive plump oysters from all over – Hokkaido, Hiroshima, Miyagi.
Bowled over a selection of eight with champers. They supply some very unusual dressings for oysters, including Scotch in an atomiser. Left that alone and stuck with squeezed lemon.
Tuna sashimi, roasted peppers with whitebait, and some sort of crumbed white fish with an amazing mayo dressing.
Japanese restaurants always surprise with a little appetiser, often in exchange for a small cover charge. Often it is pickled vegetables or a tiny bowl of noodles. Tonight it was little cups of ginger broth which was surprisingly refreshing. -
Universities deliver ‘woke’ degrees to trainee teachers who demand more practical training
“Woke’’ universities are instructing trainee teachers in gender theory, climate activism and race relations, as young teachers demand practical classroom skills.
One in five teachers has warned the federal Education Department that universities failed to teach them all the practical skills required to teach children to read and write, or to manage classrooms.
Up to one-third of recent teaching graduates from some universities declared their degree had failed to prepare them for the classroom.
Teachers-in-training have been lectured on “postmodernism, existentialism and reconstructionism” in the University of Canberra’s initial teacher education degree.
Course materials sent to students show lecturers have critiqued the “social and political content’’ of the Australian Curriculum, mandated by the nation’s education ministers for teaching children from primary school through to year 10.
A lecture slide notes “we aren’t even doing a very good job”, tallying up 19 references to social justice, Aboriginal rights, invasion, colonisation, the Stolen Generation, assimilation, social justice and racism.
The course material includes a slide from CNN, with the title “Our World Today’’, linking climate change to aggression and violent behaviour, depression and anxiety, farmer suicide and forced migration.
Thousands of students skipped school on Friday to march in “School Strikes 4 Climate’’ protests in Brisbane, Darwin and Melbourne.
One protester brandished a misspelt placard declaring “I’M MAD AND DISSAPOINTED”.
Two of Australia’s most eminent scientists – Nobel laureate and Australian National University vice-chancellor Professor Brian Schmidt and former chief scientist Dr Alan Finkel – this week criticised the poor levels of literacy and numeracy among school students and called for greater focus on schools teaching the basics of English and mathematics.
One-third of school students failed to meet the minimum standards for reading, writing and numeracy in this year’s NAPLAN (National Assessment Program, Literacy and Numeracy) tests, with students twice as likely to fail than to excel in the tests.
But many teachers are struggling with literacy and numeracy themselves, as universities fill their teaching degrees with lectures on social justice.
The federal Education Department revealed on Tuesday that many teachers fresh from university feel their degrees failed to prepare them for classroom teaching.
“A lot of students talked about the need to have more practical on-the-job training as part of the course and some suggested something along the lines of an apprenticeship model,’’ said Lisa Bolton, director of research and strategy for the department’s Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching survey of university graduates.
“They wanted to know more about classroom behaviour management, dealing with parents and dealing with students with particular learning needs.
“They said the placement was too short, the course was too theoretical and even a bit outdated. A few had made comments about wanting the lecturers to have more recent teaching experience in schools.’’
One University of Canberra final-year student told The Australian the education degree was “teaching us to indoctrinate students’’. “It teaches about gender diversity and critical race theory rather than drilling down on the fundamental skills so we can be really effective teachers ourselves,’’ the student said.
“I’m pretty irritated by all the politically correct and woke stuff.
“We could learn more in a school classroom than in the university … and save ourselves and the taxpayer a lot of money.’’
At the University of Canberra, a lecturer’s slide about “postmodernist writing’’ includes a rambling and incomprehensible 92-word sentence: “The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power.’’
A University of Canberra spokeswoman said the student’s complaints “do not accurately represent’’ the quality and content of its degree. She said trainee teachers were given practicum placements in schools, ranging from a week in the first year to 30 days in the fourth year of study.
“Taken together, all units of study that focus on a key learning area of the Australian Curriculum – mathematics, English, science etc – represent approximately 50 per cent of the total units studied by students in an undergraduate course of initial teacher education,’’ the spokeswoman said.
“The other half of the courses focuses on educational and developmental psychology, classroom and behaviour management, the use of data to improve learning, designing learning for diversity and inclusion, and the development of a professional identity well-informed by policy, theory, appropriate sources of professional learning and codes of conduct and practice.’’
Federal, state and territory education ministers have given universities until the start of 2025 to update their degrees to focus more on classroom management, children’s brain development and the teaching of phonics-based reading and writing, as well as mathematics.
The detail of what is taught in existing university degrees is kept secret: universities must submit course content to state and territory teaching accreditation bodies for approval, but most only publish a broad outline on their websites.
The Australian sought the universities’ course materials from the Queensland College of Teachers but was told they could not be released “for privacy reasons’’.
The University of Queensland’s website shows that teaching students spend the first six weeks of their degree learning about “sociological ideas and concepts needed for understanding the complexities of schooling and the social processes that often go on within them”. “We delve into the history of knowledge production in sociology, and explore the need to decolonise, expand and diversify what we know about schools and the processes that go on in them,’’ it states.
Students are assessed, in part, on a 10-minute verbal presentation explaining concepts such as “decolonising knowledge’’, the “myth of meritocracy” and “deficit discourses’’. Another lecture is about “expanding notions of sex, gender and sexuality’’.
At Victoria University, the very first subject in its teaching degree aims to “develop understanding for the cultures, histories and languages of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and to use this knowledge in the promotion of reconciliation”.
The teaching of science, maths and reading is not covered until the second year, and students must wait until the final year of their four-year degree to specialise in subjects such as biology and humanities, or to integrate the use of digital technologies in lessons.
Charles Sturt University’s course handbook for its Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood and Primary) has a list of 11 outcomes for its graduates.
The top priority is for graduates to be “agents of change’’’.
“Graduates from this course will teach for social justice and equity,’’ it states. The fifth priority is that “graduates from this course will teach for student learning’’.
At the University of Adelaide, an introduction to Australian history “treats the development of Australian society to the present through the lenses of Aboriginal deep time history; convicts and colonialism; war and conflict; migration and multiculturalism; landscape and the environment, and; the development of democratic institutions”.
Despite 13 years at school and four at university, 7 per cent of the 20,000 final-year trainee teachers failed to pass the mandatory literacy and numeracy test in 2021.
The Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education Students was set up as a guardrail to keep poorly trained teachers out of classrooms.
The test includes questions that could be answered by primary school students, such as correcting a spelling error or answering: “This year a teacher spent $383.30 on stationery. Last year the teacher spent $257.85 on stationery. How much more did the teacher spend this year than last year?’’
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Not being able to reach Port Philip Bay is a bonus
the senator also fights for climate causes.
prospect of being bogged on Chelsea Beach is no joke
so if you get bogged on the beach as sea level rises then council will move you closer to the Nepean Hwy every 10 years or so
… like they do with the bathing boxes
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The Christian mob who murdered Hypatia were as vile as any Muslim terrorists.
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Christians are nicer people.
There’s no doubting that, though individual results vary, there’s some thoroughly nice people from many religions & Buddhists take quite some beating when it comes to being nice. I’d happily fill my workplace with nothing but Buddhists (clientele likewise)
For a culture/ethos to build a society upon, Christianity would be difficult to top.
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Dover, your article is keen to destroy the more fanciful mythology around Hypatia. But it doesn’t counter the claim that she was brutally murdered by a Christian mob.
But it punctures the claim that this was a dispute between pagans and Christians, and establishes that it involved largely Christians and was principally a political dispute in which she become enmeshed because she was an advisor to one of the principals.
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Indigenous voice to parliament’s Yes campaign ‘not about separatism’, says Noel Pearson
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Indigenous Affairs Correspondent, WA Bureau Chief
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Political Correspondent
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10:00PM September 19, 2023Noel Pearson has declared Indigenous Australia will not return to “assimilation” as the co-architect of the Indigenous voice moved to counter No campaigner Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s calls for an end to separatism.
The Cape York leader expressed concerns the debate over the Indigenous voice to parliament was sending the country backward into old territory where assimilationist ideas were accepted.
He argues for an alternative concept of unity in which Indigenous people have a special but not separate place in the nation’s story, a reference to John Howard’s landmark speech on constitutional recognition in 2007.
Read Next“It’s too late for us now to be talking about assimilation. We’re not gonna turn into whitefellas tomorrow,” Mr Pearson said.
“Our children are gonna remain Aboriginal. And I think we can accept that I think Australians accept that. You can’t turn the clock back. It’s gonna be an enriching thing for the country when we do this.”
The Cape York leader was in Perth on Tuesday when he categorically rejected that the campaign for the Indigenous voice to parliament was about separatism, as Senator Nampijinpa Price has repeatedly argued.
One of the No campaign’s key slogans is “One Together, Not Two Divided”.
“The Yes campaign is not a campaign for separatism, it is not a campaign for assimilation,” Mr Pearson said at Edith Cowan University in the northern Perth suburb of Joondalup, where students can take a unit studying his reforming work and philosophy in Indigenous economic participation and welfare reciprocity.
“It (the voice) is a third way, which is that we be recognised as having our own identity, culture, languages, heritage within a united Australia.”
Senator Nampijinpa Price’s blanket rejection that there has been any downside of colonisation caused deep upset last week, and historians and researchers rushed to offer evidence of the ongoing harm of colonial policies.
However, when an audience member at Edith Cowan University asked Mr Pearson if Senator Nampijinpa Price was wrong or being mean-spirited, he replied that it was “a tactic”.
“It is like (saying) ‘all Mexicans are rapists’. Just say an outrageous thing. It’s the way democratic discourse seems to have taken a turn,” he said.
“People can say outrageous things – even things they don’t believe – in order to capture attention, galvanise constituencies. They’re as delighted at our distress as much as anything so I just think we must not be distracted by that. I don’t think it’s a serious argument … we have to continue with the progress we have made.
“On this issue it’s either assimilation or it’s separatism or it’s a united society where we get to keep our culture, we get to self-determine our lives … these are (John) Howard’s words, a special but not separate place in Australia.”
Mr Pearson lamented that the referendum had become about power for some politicians.
“In the minds of too many people, particularly the politicians, this is about the next federal election rather than the long-term future of the Australian people,” he said. “Referendums are about a long vision for the country.”
Earlier on Perth radio, Mr Pearson made a pitch to West Australian voters when he said: “The No campaign, it’s in their interest to hearken back to controversial policies of the past. The fact is … we’re at a point in Australia where Australians largely accept that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have their own identities. They have their own cultures. They have their own languages. And that this is a good thing for the country. We don’t want to lose those things.
“We are no longer demanding that Aboriginal people abandon those things. They’re not ugly things. They’re not bad things. They are, in fact, rich things and we have got something to contribute to the culture. The situation has changed from 30, 50, 80 years ago. We now accept Aboriginal identity and culture and languages, and recognition of that. The recognition that that is part of Australia is something we now want to agree with in the Constitution and recognise it in the vote that we take on October 14.
“When Aboriginal kids go astray and they see no place in the society, you know really it’s not about so-called assimilation, we’re not going to turn into whitefellas. That’s never going to happen. We’re not going to leave our culture and identity and languages. But at the same time, it’s not about separatism. The Yes campaign is about integration. It’s about unity. It’s about bringing the country together so that people can have their cultures but be very naturally Australian.”
Senator Nampijinpa Price said: “This is a disgraceful and divisive attempt by Noel Pearson to verbal Australians voting no.
“Nobody except him is talking about assimilation or turning Aboriginal children into ‘whitefellas’.
“Of course Australians are proud of their Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander brothers and sisters. Of course we are proud of our Indigenous heritage.
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Inner-city Australians, usually in a government service job of some sort, are almost always atheists, and I say this without exaggeration—the worst people in the world. They’d give devout Muslims a decent run. Most hail from Protestant families.
American WASPs are very different people, and I’ve often wondered if convict heritage had anything to do with it.
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Dover, your article is keen to destroy the more fanciful mythology around Hypatia. But it doesn’t counter the claim that she was brutally murdered by a Christian mob.
This is a pretty good illustration of the automatic impulse to suggest someone doing an unchristian thing is a christian. It’s a version of the way the atheist mob went after Pell with such ugly gusto.
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The second para made me LOL.
Fetterman himself started the rumors flying in mid-August when he radically changed his look, shaving his salt-and-pepper goatee and growing a thick brown mustache. That has led to a blizzard of photo comparisons. On Sunday, journalist Alex Rosen posted two photos in which Fetterman looks very different with the question: “How did John Fetterman grow a full beard between these 2 pictures supposedly taken on the same day?” X’ers pointed out that one of his photos was actually taken over a year before the other, but that didn’t actually address the fact that Fetterman really does look quite different in both.
Nevertheless, the idea that there was another bald, hulking, slouching, six-foot-eight slob with a crooked frown line on his forehead waiting in the wings to take Fetterman’s place strains credulity, even in these days of AI and massive fakery everywhere. There could conceivably be a fake Fetterman, but if there is, the biggest evidence of the fakery is not to be found in small details of Fetterman One’s appearance as compared to Fetterman Two. The biggest evidence is that the new Fetterman can speak coherently.
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