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A truth-telling exhibition
Blak In-Justice: Incarceration and Resilience

"Our artwork and culture is somehow revered on the international stage and high enough for an exchange at that level, but yet, we're the most incarcerated people on the planet.”

"Since the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, Indigenous incarceration rates have more than doubled, and deaths in custody have continued to rise."

"It's a huge stain on this nation...White Australia's support is crucial."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-02/blak-in-justice-exhibition-heide-museum-torch-project/105356854
#IndigenousPeoples #FirstNationsPeoples #Australia #violence #incarceration #HyperIncarceration #biopolitics #necropolitics #TruthTelling #art

Unfinished business

"A shameful death after a supermarket scuffle shines a light on Australia’s unfinished business. From compensation for the Stolen Generations to Indigenous recognition, Australia must follow words with actions."

"There is unfinished business in this country, and there can be no excuses for not knowing or understanding. We need to change direction and remove the burden from the most vulnerable."

"In a land of home improvers surely the principle of fixing the foundations first if you want to really close the gaps is obvious."
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/01/a-shameful-death-after-a-supermarket-scuffle-shines-a-light-on-australias-unfinished-business-ntwnfb

A First Nations Voice to Parliament. Australia’s Constitutional Referendum Explained
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https://verfassungsblog.de/a-first-nations-voice-to-parliament/
#FirstNationsPeoples #IndigenousAustralians #recognition #Voice #Constitution #foundations #referendum #law #violence #Civics #education #Australia #TruthTelling

Yoorrook Justice Commission invites you to be part of the Walk for Truth from Portland to Parliament.

Everyone is invited to join when Yoorrook Deputy Chair Commissioner Travis Lovett, Kerrupmara Gunditjmara, walks from Portland, where colonisation began, to Parliament, where we can transform the future.

Starting on Sunday 25 May on GunditjmaraGunditjmara Country at Portland, the Walk will finish at Parliament House on Wednesday 18 June.

This powerful journey aims to bring everyone together to walk toward truth, celebrate the strength and resistance of Aboriginal people, and be proud to have the oldest living culture in the world as ours.

For more information:

https://yoorrookjusticecommission.org.au/events/walkfortruth/

#Australia
#Naarm
#Yoorook
#Gunditjmara
#AboriginalLand
#AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBeAboriginalLand
#colonisation
#WalkForTruth
#TruthTelling
#aboriginalheritage

A little boy once called someone a "piece of crap," and it cracked open something in me. His honesty, unfiltered and raw, challenged the way I speak, love, and hold back. I revisit this old post with fresh eyes and a softer heart—because maybe we all carry a little piece of crap inside us, and maybe that’s okay if we’re willing to grow.
#HonestReflection #TruthTelling #CommunicationStruggles #EmotionalGrowth #KindergartenLessons #FosterCareAwareness #BoldAndLoving…

http://fabricthatmademe.com/2025/05/11/little-piece-of-crap/

The #Grifters running #Amerikkka are calling public media a grift! Probably because they embrace DEI and aren't afraid to criticize the #Fascist administration! This will not only cripple or destroy #PublicTelevision stations, #CommunityRadio like #WMPG also receives money from the #CPB!!!

White House calls #NPR and #PBS a “grift,” will ask Congress to rescind funding

By Jon Brodkin, April 15, 2025

Excerpt: "In a statement provided to Ars today, PBS CEO Paula Kerger said that 'the effort underway to get Congress to rescind public media funding would disrupt the essential service PBS and local member stations provide to the American people. There's nothing more American than PBS, and our work is only possible because of the bipartisan support we have always received from Congress... Without PBS member stations, Americans will lose unique local programming and emergency services in times of crisis.' "

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04/white-house-aims-to-defund-npr-and-pbs-in-move-slammed-as-cultural-sabotage/

#PublicMedia #PublicBroadcasting #NationalPublicRadio #Censorship #CommunityRadio #CollegeRadio #AmanpourAndCompany #SesameStreet #EducationalTelevision #MisterRogers #Kindness #Empathy #Truthtelling #CharacteristicsOfFascism #Authoritarianism #IndependentMedia #DemocracyNow #CorporationForPublicBroadcasting

And this is only a small proportion of the church’s property holdings in Melbourne. #TruthTelling #StolenLand #Yoorrook

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-08/melbourne-catholic-churches-billion-dollar-value-truth-telling/104924228?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/implications-for-act-of-high-court-decision-on-commonwealth-v-yunupingu/

Over to you #ACTLabor #justice #TruthTelling and #Treaty , show the way and don’t let us down.

#IVotedYes

Exposing the ugly underbelly of settler colonialism in Australia

“This was a horrendous research experience, but it did expose the ugly underbelly of settler colonialism in Australia."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/ng-interactive/2019/mar/04/massacre-map-australia-the-killing-times-frontier-wars

Colonial Frontier Massacres in Australia, 1788-1930
Data from the Colonial Frontier Massacres Digital Map Project led by Prof Lyndall Ryan at the University of Newcastle’s Centre for the 21st Century Humanities.
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https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/
#TruthTelling #SettlerSociety #violence #colonialism #ConspiracyOfSilence #frontier #ResourceFrontiers #ContemporaneityOfTheNonContemporaneous #IndigenousPeoples #Australia

A quotation from Horace

And yet what harm can there be
in presenting the truth with a laugh, as teachers sometimes give
their children biscuits to coax them into learning their ABC?

[Quamquam ridentem dicere verum
quid vetat? ut pueris olim dant crustula blandi
doctores, elementa velint ut discere prima.]

Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet and satirist [Quintus Horacius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 1, # 1, “Qui fit, Mæcenas,” l. 24ff (1.1.24-26) (35 BC) [tr. Rudd (2005 ed.)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/horace/74618/

#quote #quotes #quotation #bribery #education #humor #laughter #mirth #sweets #teaching #treats #truth #truthtelling

The so-called “Australia” always was and always will be… Aboriginal land. #TruthTelling #Aboriginal #Australia #Immigrants #AustraliaDay #WhiteAustralia

January 26th - Day of Mourning, Invasion Day NOT AUSTRALIA DAY. Australian Immigrants participate in the truth telling. #TruthTelling

Rethinking the narrative of progress - ‘doing loss’ in present society

How can Western modernity come to grips with loss if its promise of progress has been stripped of its credibility? Andreas Reckwitz, 2023:

"The losses — both those already experienced and those anticipated in the future — can no longer be rendered invisible so easily; they are growing in numbers, and the attention paid to them is growing, too."

"In late modernity, we thus see both an escalation of loss and a growing awareness of loss: from climate change to the losers of modernization, from collective traumata to regressions... the present-day political field turns out to be an explosive experimental space for dealing with negative events."

"The promise is no longer about progress but about the illusion of regaining what has been lost:
To face the truth with open eyes and make loss, the experienced and the anticipated a legitimate and crucial topic of debate does not necessarily weaken democracy but could strengthen it."
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Andreas Reckwitz, The Challenge of Loss , LA Review of Books, 2023
https://lareviewofbooks.org/short-takes/the-challenge-of-loss/
#progress #TheWest #modernity #loss #experiences #consumption #more #expectations #nostalgia #anger #deindustrialisation #environment #EcoGrief #DoingLoss #PublicHealth #ClimateBreakdown #extinction #trauma #violence #populism #TruthTelling #democracy #stability

Do the math: The bigger the lie, the longer the war. 🕰️ #TruthTelling

They told them it was for freedom 🕊️, but freedom doesn’t come from bombs ✈️💣.

The bigger the lie, the longer the war. 🕰️ #TruthTelling

"Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
- Leo Tolstoy #truth #truthtelling #exposed #history #irony #facts
& #journalismisnotacrime
"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence." - Leonardo da Vinci #britishvalues #reformuk #censorship #silencing #revelation

"Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
- Leo Tolstoy #truth #truthtelling #exposed #history #irony
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"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence." - Leonardo da Vinci #britishvalues #reformuk

Imperial violence

"Imperial conquest and colonization depended on pervasive raiding, slaving, and plunder. European empires amassed global power by asserting a right to use unilateral force at their discretion. They Called It Peace is a panoramic history of how these routines of violence remapped the contours of empire and reordered the world from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries."

The book "brings vividly to life a world in which warmongers portrayed themselves as peacemakers and Europeans imagined “small” violence as essential to imperial rule and global order."
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https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691248479/they-called-it-peace

Benton, Lauren: They Called It Peace. Worlds of Imperial Violence. Princeton 2024
The book analyses imperial violence between 1400 and 1900.
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https://history.yale.edu/people/lauren-benton
#book #history #empires #violence #war #warmongers #massacres #dispossession #IndigenousPeoples #HyperViolentPeace #Pacific #GlobalOrder #peace #TruthTelling