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How about we crowd fund the $10000 to get Zachary Rolfe to come and speak.

..in a dark alley somewhere.

..to me.

Anyone in?

#ZacharyRolfe #KillTheCops #Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation #AbolishPolice #AbolishPrisons

Zachary Rolfe offered speaking services on ‘leadership, ethical decision-making’ for up to $10,000

Former NT police officer, who was cleared of murder over the shooting death of Indigenous man Kumanjayi Walker in 2022, listed as speaker at Sydney summit

#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation #AbolishPolice #AbolishPrisons #Abolition #CommunityNotCops #NoJusticeNoPeace

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jun/17/zachary-rolfe-event-speaking-circuit-ntwnfb?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Out of over 100K searches, they only had 413 positive hits.

This means the expanded powers are:
1. not proportional
2. not effective

- they are also actively harmful, but cops don't gaf about causing harm, especially to marginalised peoples.
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Expanded ‘Jack’s law’ police powers could lead to further ‘surveillance and harassment’ of some Queenslanders, expert warns

LNP moves to allow police to detain and search people with metal detecting wand in any public place and remove sunset clause

"According to police statistics, 83% of the 100,611 people wanded since Jack’s law came into effect were male. Of people with known ethnic origin, 11.8% were Indigenous – despite Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people making up only 4.6% of Queensland’s population, according to census figures. A survey of 6,705 people scanned at shopping centres showed that 76% were male, and 55% were younger than 18.

During another year-long trial that ended in June 2024, police laid more charges for drug possession – 1,384 – than for knife offences, of which 413 were recorded."

#AusPol #Australia #Queensland #QLD #QLDPOL #policing #Criminology #CriminalJustice #AbolishPolice #Abolition #AbolishPrisons #Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jun/11/expanded-jacks-law-police-powers-could-lead-to-further-surveillance-and-harassment-of-some-queenslanders-expert-warns

Taking notes from the lecture slides from my Indigenous People and Justice class, and there are multiple instances of the non-Indigenous lecturer calling us "Aboriginals".

"Conversely, it is [police] discretion used inappropriately that plays a significant causal role in the over-representation of Aboriginals in the criminal justice system"

I mean, I call myself an Aboriginal all the time.. but the use of it like this is grossly othering.

In case you're interested, BY UNIVERSITY GUIDELINES it should be "Indigenous people", you maaaaaay be able to get away with "Aboriginal people" (but tbh, if you used it in an assessment you'd get marked down).

But, knowing this lecturer* it's definitely a racist slip.

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* I've already had to talk to my course convener about her because she was teaching a subject called Crimes of the Powerful and pretty much spent an entire lecture pushing a bunch of racist anti-Chinese conspiracies about the origins of covid.

#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation #uni #Academia #Criminology #CriminalJustice #university

🚫no coloniser comments🚫

There's absolutely never any need for the police to restrain someone for shop lifting.

Those cops murdered that boy.

Fuck them. I hope they die lonely and afraid.

#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation #AbolishPolice #AbolishPrisons #Abolition #CommunityNotCops #NoJusticeNoPeace

Oh hey, I got an HD for my assessment about policing which ended with the line "..as Kendrick Lamar (2024), "you not a colleague, you a fucking coloniser", and which refers to the Aboriginal Strategic Direction as "the whitest of white papers"*

I definitely thought I'd be marked down for my sass.

#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation #AbolishPolice #AbolishPrisons #Abolition #uni #Academia #Criminology #CriminalJustice #university

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* a joke stolen from my friend, Ulf.

When someone points out that your anti-Indigenous actions are deeply unethical, "by whose ethics??" isn't the own you think it is.

#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation

🚫no settler mens comments🚫

Sorry Day? How can the government claim to be sorry for the actions it continues to do?

When Kevin Rudd first apologised for the Stolen Generations back in 08, our child removal rates were bordering on those of the official Stolen Generations policies of the 1900s.

Every year since, our child removal rates have continued to rise.

During the height of the stolen generations, it is estimated that anywhere from 1 in 5 to 1 in 10 Aboriginal children were taken. Today, 1 in 4 children come into contact with the system.

Many of these children aren't placed in the care of their extended family, or even their community.
Some of these children, in an act of continued assimilation practices, are even taken outside of this continent to be raised in places like Europe by white parents.

This kidnapping of our children by the colony must end. Our children aren't a commodity or novelty for settlers to acquire, they're our future and legacy, and they're real, living people who belong with their family on their country.

[from the BPU Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/share/19ZMyqCRBc/]

#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation #SorryDay #NationalSorryDay #Australia #AusPol #Youth

The Aboriginal flag, with text over it:
SORRY MEANS DON'T DO IT AGAIN
KIDS IN CULTURE NOT IN CARE

First Nations leaders accuse Queensland LNP of ‘intent to destroy’ Indigenous communities as youth crime laws pass

Criticisms ignored as David Crisafulli defies UN human rights warnings over ‘adult crime, adult time’ laws

#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation #AbolishPolice #AbolishPrisons #Abolition #CommunityNotCops #NoJusticeNoPeace #Youth #YouthCrime #QLD #QLDPol #Australia #AusPol

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/23/queensland-lnp-indigenous-communities-youth-crime-laws

“We’re seeing rights being walked back all around the world and freedom of speech being wrongly defined as tolerating hate speech,” he says, adding: “I can viscerally feel the tone of the world shifting. It is fucking crazy – the way that I’m getting spoken to now is wild.”

Armstrong has always been unafraid to expose the racism he has copped but it is only getting worse. “Way worse – I’m just incredulous about the brazenness,” he says.

#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation #sports #sport #afl #TonyArmstrong

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/may/17/tony-armstrong-the-tone-of-the-world-shifting-the-way-that-im-getting-spoken-to-is-wild?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Facebook comments be like:

😡😡I DON'T NEED TO BE FUCKING WELCOMED HERE😡😡

#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation #WelcomeToCountry

The swinging gate at the entrance to a Coles supermarket, with a sign that says "Welcome to Coles"

People arguing on a post about the Welcome to Country and NRL, saying "WE DO NOT NEED A WELCOME TO COUNTRY"..

Bestie, let me hold your hand while I tell you this:

...we also "DO NOT NEED" rugby league.

#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation #WelcomeToCountry

A Welcome to Country isn't welcoming you to Australia, you fucking losers.

It's welcoming you to the specific Aboriginal Country that the event you're attending is occurring on.

It's not directed at settlers to remind you that you're settlers - be honest, nothing we do is going to address your entitlement.

It's for everyone who isn't a part of that Aboriginal community, and it's a WELCOME.

Only someone desperate to be a victim would find a ritual designed to literally WELCOME them into a shared space alienating.

Y'all must've been super confused when your mother's would welcome you home from school, huh?

#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation

Jacob Hersant arrested for booing an Aboriginal Elder performing the Welcome to Country in Melbourne for the ANZAC Dawn Service.

Seems like he learned his lesson from the single month of bail he was sentenced to for throwing a nazi salute last year.

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* he could have been sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment and/or a fine of $24,000

** his lawyer argued (successfully) that it was a non-violent crime

*** he literally walked out of the courthouse and told the press he was a "soldier of Hitler's"

**** I'm 100% an abolitionist and I'm fucking tired of seeing shit stains like this get mercy from the courts while my people are killed in custody

***** if someone kills him I'll suck your dick and cook you the best bœuf bourguignon you've ever tasted - I'm very good at both.

#AusPol #Australia #election #anzac #anzacday #AustraliaHasANaziProblem #Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation

I'm skipping my lecture today, because I was just prepping my notes and realised that we're discussing "settler colonialism and nation-building" with no mention of neo-colonialism or settler colonialism as an ongoing structure as opposed to a historical event.

...i don't have the bandwidth for that today.

#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation #uni #Academia #Criminology #CriminalJustice #university