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?

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.

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.

"New $5 Bill to honour First Nations connection to Country instead of king"

OK. Great.

GIVE US OUR FUCKING LAND BACK

I just got called "Aunty".

Like, thank you. But also fuck off

..and it will get worse with the new Bail laws in Victoria.

..and it'll get worse if Dutton gets in as pm.

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Rate of Indigenous people in jail has risen by 20% since 2019,

Closing the Gap data shows
New data reveals child protection, incarceration and suicide rates getting worse

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

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/13/closing-the-gap-report-data-indigenous-people-in-jail-australia-data-ntwnfb?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Watching the local Facebook groups to see which businesses we won't be using this year as they all post "Australia day" bullshit.

[Settler opinions not welcome]

Invasion Day 2025: a guide to protest marches and events across Australia on 26 January

From dawn ceremonies to rallies, festivals and other gatherings, here is what’s happening in each state and territory

#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation #AustraliaDay #InvasionDay #NoPrideInGenocide

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jan/25/invasion-day-2025-a-guide-to-protest-marches-and-events-across-australia-on-26-january?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

4 days ago someone made a post in the Orange Community Facebook group complaining about "indigenous kids on illegal motorbikes distributing methamphetamines in my street", detailing how he'd called the cops who were doing nothing and now he was "going to go to the papers".. a lot of responses were talking about "the good old days when cops would give these people the old phonebook treatment".

Yesterday an anonymous post appeared to warn people they'd found a cable wire tied across the street at chest height (they'd taken it down, but someone might put it back up), and people in the comments defending the action saying if the cops won't solve the problem that they might have to.

Australia is a racist fucking cesspit.

More than 90% of people caught with small amounts of illicit drugs criminalised in NSW despite diversion reforms

A New South Wales government program that gives police discretion to divert people found with small quantities of illicit drugs away from the courts has only been extended to 6.9% of people caught, including just 2.6% of those who are Indigenous.

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

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/dec/04/more-than-90-of-people-caught-with-small-amounts-of-illicit-drugs-criminalised-in-nsw-despite-diversion-reforms?CMP=share_btn_url

no settler comments

I've been wanting to write a post about the response from a lot of settlers to Hana Rawhiti protesting with the Haka in New Zealand parliament the other day. Two things I've noticed:

1. Clips start at the beginning of the Haka, and are missing out where she calls "Kāwana, ka whakamanuwhiritia koe e au!"*
[Government, you exist by my say-so and I hereby revoke your rights!]**

2. Clips are inundated with comments from settlers declaring that they "don't know why, but I always end up sobbing when I see a haka dance!"

And, well I have thoughts about both points.

But I really want to write something about those settler tears are people feeling the dearth of their own culture in the face of a moment of pure and direct connection to Culture , and how you can't expect to have a culture to connect with if all your people have done for hundreds of years is steal, rape, and murder.. but I don't have the energy to argue about it

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* Apologies if I've spelled this wrong

** I don't speak te reo Māori, this translation was from a Māori person on tiktok

I'm shocked.

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No adverse findings from probe triggered by NT police tactical group’s offensive ‘awards’

Corruption watchdog rules out further investigation into racism within the force despite evidence of historical racial discrimination

#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation #AbolishPolice #AbolishPrisons #Abolition #CommunityNotCops #NoJusticeNoPeace #RegionalAustralia #RuralAustralia #NTPol #NT

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/nov/14/no-adverse-findings-in-racism-probe-into-elite-northern-territory-police-ntwnfb

no white men comments

While you all are 'Lest We Forget'-ing all over yourselves, take a moment to think about the Frontier Wars.

Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.

Watching more people crying about those two police dogs that were killed being left in the back of a locked cop car, than ever said shit about the Ngaanyatjarra Elder and Culture Man who was literally cooked to death in the back of a prison transport van in 2008.

Put them in a coffin’: could debate over Queensland’s ‘youth crime crisis’ take a dangerous turn?

While data suggests youth crime rates are at near-record lows, it’s become a totemic issue in the election campaign and that has Indigenous academics worried

#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation #AbolishPolice #AbolishPrisons #Abolition #CommunityNotCops #NoJusticeNoPeace #QLD #QLDPol #AusPol #Criminology #CriminalJustice #politics #policing #Youth #YouthCrime #JuvenileJustice #MoralPanic

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/oct/18/queensland-election-youth-crime-crisafulli-steven-miles-ntwnfb?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other