Left-wing Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe is under investigation over whether she breached any confidence when dating an ex-gang leader while being a member of the law enforcement committee. It comes as Labor and the Coalition are both placing pressure on Greens leader Adam Bandt to take stronger action against Thorpe, who announced her resignation from…
Greens Senator Under Probe for Undisclosed Relationship With Ex Gang Boss
October 21, 2022
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Secret Relationship With Gang Leader Forces Left-Wing Greens Senator to Resign From Senior Position
October 20, 2022
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Lidia Thorpe, deputy leader of the left-wing Australian Greens party has resigned from her position—but remains a senator—after revelations emerged of a relationship with the ex-leader of an outlaw motorcycle gang, which occurred at the same time she sat on a parliamentary committee investigating the criminal gangs. The joint-parliamentary committee on law enforcement she was…
Affirmative Action Removes Individual Agency: Indigenous Senator
October 6, 2022
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Framing Aboriginal Australians as victims removes responsibility from themselves as an individual rather than helping them flourish, says an Indigenous Australian senator. Jacinta Price, new Country Liberal Party senator for Northern Territory, told The Epoch Times on Oct. 1 that such an approach creates the expectation that the “perceived oppressor,” who is white Australians…
‘Anti-Racism’ Narrative Almost Cult-Like: Australian Supreme Court Judge
An Australian judge has warned of a “new ‘anti-racism’ religion” and described the overusing of the term “racist” where it doesn’t apply is “unhelpful and dishonest” and detracting from the search for solutions. Speaking at the 2022 Women Lawyers’ Drinks on Aug. 26, Northern Territory Supreme Court Justice Judith Kelly said while past Australian governments…
Anti-Racism Narrative Becoming ‘Cult-Like’: Australian Judge
September 2, 2022
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An Australian judge has warned of a “new ‘anti-racism’ religion” and says overuse of the term “racist” is unhelpful and dishonest. Speaking at the 2022 Women Lawyers’ Drinks on Aug. 26, Northern Territory Supreme Court Justice Judith Kelly said while past Australian governments had racist policies, “the fact that some contemporary problems have been caused…
Do We Really Need an Indigenous Voice for Parliament?
September 2, 2022
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Commentary While Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his minister for Indigenous affairs frolic with NBA Basketball legends, and high profile people and big corporates lecture regular people about the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament (the Voice), the proposed referendum has turned into a bully pulpit for elitists, Aboriginal academic activists, the…
Do We Really Need an Indigenous Voice to Parliament?
September 2, 2022
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Commentary While Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his minister for Indigenous affairs frolic with NBA Basketball legends, and high profile people and big corporates lecture regular people about the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament (the Voice), the proposed referendum has turned into a bully pulpit for elitists, Aboriginal academic activists, the…
The Voice Is Not a Debate About Racism
Commentary There has been much written about the Indigenous voice to the Australian Parliament in recent times (hereafter referred to as “the Voice” with a capital V). I have stated my position before, which, at this stage, is that I am not convinced of its merits. I base this on my observation that the Voice’s…
Listening to the Voice
August 16, 2022
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Commentary In 1967, 55 years ago, a referendum was held in Australia to allow a change to the Constitution that would remove the last impediment to the recognition of our Aboriginal people as full citizens. Australians are slow to accept constitutional changes: we have held 44 referenda since federation, but only eight of them returned…
Australia’s Acknowledgment of Country More Like ‘Lip Service’: Indigenous Senator
An Indigenous Senator has described the acknowledgment of country as “lip service” as she vowed to “smash the racial stereotype” that Aboriginal Australians should toe the progressive line. Australia’s acknowledgment of country is a practice where an individual pays respect to Aboriginal people, country, culture and heritage, and is usually done at the beginning of…
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