Mr Odoevskiy told Fairfax Media the comments had prompted him to do some research on what shirt-front meant and "I learned a little more about Aussie Rules football".
"As I understand, this is quite an old fashioned term which is not widely used in the modern day game," he said. "Also, it is illegal."
"Another observation would be that as we are aware at this point, there has not be a request for a bilateral at the Brisbane summit from either side. So we are not sure when the Prime Minister would like to shirt-front the Russian President."
"And finally, I know Prime Minister Abbott is a very keen bicyclist. The Russian President does a lot of judo, which is a type of wrestling."
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http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/our-blunt-message-to-russian-president-vladimir-putin/story-fni0ffsx-1227090480661 posted:Our blunt message to Russian President Vladimir Putin
VLADIMIR Putin, you have Australian blood on your hands. Stay away.
The Herald Sun has issued this blunt message to the dictator in our editorial — published both in Russian and English.
We hope the Russian President reads the editorial and heeds our message.
glomper_stomper posted:watch the editorial column start a fucking war
if you ask them theyll say pravda started it. Fuckas
Petrol posted:Crow. please tell me they messed up the russian bit lol
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http://nationalunitygovernment.org/content/rottnest-island-internment-camp-turned-favourite-holiday-destination-without-debate posted:Rottnest Island: the internment camp turned favourite holiday destination, without debate
It takes a unique country to name a century-long former internment camp as its favourite holiday destination. Such a country would either have to be one with rather macabre fascinations or a genuine interest in acknowledging historical injustices as a way of moving towards a better future. Or it could just be Australia.
In a poll conducted by travel provider Experience Oz, Rottnest Island took the top spot when it came to favourite Australian holiday destinations. It’s not surprising that the natural beauty and unique wildlife were mentioned as to why Rottnest was number one. The hundreds of Aboriginal men buried in unmarked graves probably aren’t an island drawcard for most tourists. If tourists indeed know that this what they’re walking over when exploring the island.
When Aboriginal people speak of our history in this country, these stories are often dismissed. Every Australia Day, this national dismissal of Aboriginal experience is paraded in public for all to see. Aboriginal people are continually accused of focussing only on negatives; of promoting “black armband history” at the cost of celebrating alleged national positives. When it comes to the history of Rottnest though, to try and argue that there are positives to celebrate is impossible.
The proper acknowledgement of the gruesome history of Rottnest has been called for for a very long time. Only two weeks ago, Murdoch University academic and Minang-Wadjari man Glen Stasiuk was quoted calling for the closure of Rottnest Lodge Accommodation and asking that it be turned into a museum and appropriate memorial.
Rottnest Lodge claims as part of its lodgings “The Quod” – an octagonal building housing the Aboriginal prison which was in operation from 1838 to 1931. Each luxury hotel room encompasses three of the old cells in which at least seven prisoners were crammed. The Quod grounds where five men were hung on gallows serve as a grassy area for hotel guests to sun themselves and relax. At least 10% of the prisoners there died; of malnutrition, of illnesses, of brutality. Stasiuk believes nine out of 10 people who stay at The Quod don’t know this history.
Certainly, Rottnest Lodge doesn’t go out of its way to advertise it to potential guests either. The Quod rooms are described as being “rich in history”, which I guess is one way to put it. Additionally the Lodge itself is noted as once being the Summer residence for the governor of WA, yet the website neglects to state much else about the other buildings.
Much of what else stands in Rottnest today was built of Aboriginal suffering. Michael Sinclair-Jones describes the island buildings and sea retainer walls that were built from Aboriginal prisoner labour, as well as the former campground which sat on top of what is the largest deaths in custody gravesite in this country. At best it seems this is glossed over with local and governmental arguments consistently being it would cost too much to acknowledge these sites. At worst, it is the denial of violent practices enacted against Aboriginal people to keep others feeling comfortable when visiting such places.
1. One in 10 prisoners who slept here died of disease, malnourishment or bashed to death by the prison guards. Others were flogged with lead-weighted whips or chained across a raised iron bar for punishment. Prisoners were lined up in the central courtyard and collapsed in shock when forced to watch five condemned men hanged, their bodies carted to a nearby dump and buried in unmarked graves. 2. Beach holding cell where Aboriginal prisoners started years of brutal captivity, then death. 3. Inside the windowless holding cell. Terrified Aboriginal prisoners were held here after being chained together by the neck and ankle and transported from Fremantle in a treacherous voyage that took up to nine hours in an open longboat.
Wadjemup – Sleeping among the dead – “They will not be forgotten”
Friday 17th October, 2014, the First People of the western region of this continent who were imprisoned on Wadjemup, between 1841 to 1903, will be remembered by their descendants. Their ancestors were incarcerated for the crimelessness of refusing to hand over their Country to the colonialist invaders who history often immorally describes as “settlers”. The remembrance is being led by Nyungah Land and Culture worker, Iva Hayward-Jackson. Mr Hayward-Jackson said, “They will not be forgotten.” Mr Hayward-Jackson said that the remembrance will become an annual event.
Wadjemup, known to most as Rottnest Island, one of WA’s best known tourist hotspots, 19km off the Perth coast, was once a penal colony for the First Peoples of what is now called Western Australia. Young boys and men were transported to Wadjemup from all over the western part of this continent by the colonial invaders – many never to return. For the majority, their only ‘crime’ was to refuse to budge from their respective Country, the homelands that they had taken care of all their lives, and who their ancestors going back up to one hundred thousand years ago took care of. One hundred thousand years of relative peaceful living had come to an abrupt end.
Wadjemup is a place where mums and dads take their families to relax and unwind, enjoying the many beaches and pristine waters. The worst that can happen is a child falling off a bike and grazing a knee. However, a brutal colonial history languishes forever over Wadjemup – ‘a place across the waters’ and of ‘spirits across the sea’ according to Noongar/Nyoongah/Nyungah/Nyungar/Bibbelmun lore. On this little island is recorded an unsettling past, the largest number of Aboriginal deaths in custody. The Quod building was built by forced labour, by the Aboriginal prisoners, and it is where they were to be incarcerated and where many of them would die.
The Quod site is where at least 370 First People died in critically austere dank and dark miserable conditions. Perth historian Neville Green estimates that at least 287 First People died on the island prison but other estimates have it at 370 with others believing it could be up to 700 deaths.
Near one of the island’s most popular swimming areas, the Basin, which is near the tourist hub of the island, the Settlement, lie the bodies of thereabouts one hundred boys and men. Elders from all over the State remain frustrated that Australia’s largest unmarked burial site remains neglected and trodden over by tourists. There is a history of tourists finding skulls and bones.
In 1970, sewerage works to extend the golf course unearthed 12 skeletons in a grove of pine trees, right near the Quod. It was not till 1985 that the Aboriginal Sites Government department recorded the approximate location of the burial ground(s). Following 1988 protests on the island, ground penetrating radar was used by the Government to estimate the extensiveness of the burial grounds. In 1992, the State Aboriginal Authority budgeted $400,000 to contribute to a commemorative centre and memorial right nearby the burial ground. However the project lapsed and never happened.
In 1994, then WA Premier Richard Court acknowledged at a meeting with Nyungah Elders that the island was the site of the largest deaths in custody burial ground but still no memorial eventuated.
Many of the island’s buildings, built by forced labour, now sleep tens of thousands of tourists each year. The buildings built by the sweat and blood of First People are now adored by the tourists and are considered ‘heritage landmarks’. First People built the island’s Government House, which has been converted to Rottnest’s biggest hotel, and they built the Hay Store, which has been converted to the museum, and they built the church, and the Salt Store, and they built the myriad scatter of waterfront cottages that so many tourists have to book months in advance in order to have a chance to secure their accommodation, and they built the Quod, an eight sided prison, which only a few decades after the prison was closed down became the island’s signature piece tourist accommodation.
Prisoners were flogged with lead weighted whips, and were chained across a raised iron bar for punishment. There are many archived accounts of horror, brutality, tragedy, inhumanity – Rottnest was a vacuum of inhumanity. On one occasion, prisoners were lined up in the central courtyard and some collapsed in shock when forced to watch five condemned inmates hanged – their bodies carted to a nearby dump and buried unmarked.
One of the Nyungah people’s senior Elders, Richard Wilkes, said that “the 370 Aboriginal prisoners were quickly buried, most of them wrapped in filthy blankets.”
“They should have been buried facing east to greet the rising sun over the land of their ancestors.”
Except for a few attributions in some of the deaths in various literature, no records were kept about the manner and cause of death of the first 203 Aboriginal prisoners to die on the island.
The island prison’s first superintendent was Henry Vincent, someone who colonial history textbooks have talked up and after whom shires and streets are named after throughout Western Australia, and of whom statues and portraits abound. He was a ruthless and harsh superintendent and according to official records was barely literate, and according to historians and authors was a ‘disciplinarian’. He had served in the Napoleonic Wars and had lost an eye in the Battle of Waterloo.
In 1846, the colony’s Governor John Hutt ordered an inquiry and in testimony provided to the inquiry, British soldier Samuel Mottram alleged under oath the hearsay from overseer Joseph Morris that Superintendent Vincent killed two Aboriginal prisoners and without having it recorded had them buried.
Another soldier, Private John Williams also took the oath and described having seen part of an Aboriginal prisoner’s ear on the ground.
Private Thomas Longworth said he saw Supt Vincent “pull the ear rather severely, and then shaking his fingers, as if to throw something away off his hands, wipe his fingers on his trousers.” He saw the Aboriginal prisoner “with the gristly part of one ear wanting.”
In a documented incident, Government archived, a 60-year-old prisoner, who claimed to be sick and too unwell to move, was bashed twice in the face with a bunch of keys while on his knees pleading that he was not well. After being hit the second time he fell over, and was allegedly kicked. He was found to be unconscious and died later than night in his prison cell. There is controversy as to who struck the prisoner. An autopsy of the prisoner produced an inexplicable ‘finding’ that the man died of ‘lung disease’.
One of the assistant superintendents was Henry Vincent’s son, William. According to accounts from the time, however hearsay, many islanders believe that it was Henry Vincent who hit the prisoner, but William is alleged to have taken the blame to shield his father from scrutiny. Surprisingly, William Vincent was convicted of assault and sentenced to three months hard labour in the police stables. This is the only time there has been a conviction of someone for their hand in an unnatural hand in a death in custody.
WA’s Battye Library records the savage brutality sustained upon the 3,760 First Peoples prisoners between 1841 to 1903. The prisoners were as young as 8 years old and others in their seventies. They were often shackled in heavy iron chains, around their necks and ankles and marched scores of kilometres on the mainland while in transit to Rottnest Island. They came from all parts of Western Australia, and from vastly different Country and cultures to each other, with different languages, dialects and customs.
The Battye Library records, “Prisoners lay cold and wet surrounded by excrement on damp stone floors as deadly influenza raged through their draughty cells.”
“Aboriginal men from as far as the Gascoyne, Fitzroy River and the Kimberley arrived up to twenty at a time, shivering in chains in an open boat, cold, wet and sea sick, clad only in thin blankets.”
“Many suffered pneumonia, scurvy, eczema and dysentery as they lay wet and shivering in threadbare blankets on cold stone floors, constantly damp in winter from being flushed out daily with buckets of cold water to remove overnight faeces and urine. “
The stench from the prison’s open cesspit was so nauseating to Chief Warder Adam Oliver that he complained to an 1884 Government inquiry chaired by Surveyor-General John Forrest, later to be Premier. He complained that ‘offensive air’ was permeating his quarters and ‘ruining the health of his wife and four children.’ But, he described to the ‘inquiry’ that the treatment of prisoners was ‘humane and kind.’
Despite Henry Vincent’s brutality he is remembered kindly by history, and in his time he owned a venerated reputation as a pioneer, and for coordinating the development of many of the buildings on the island.
Perth historian, Neville Green, said that the site should be respected, “It is comparable to transforming Auschwitz concentration camp into holiday cottages.”
At least one in ten of the First Peoples incarcerated and subjected to slave labour on Wadjemup died from disease, malnutrition, maltreatment and abuse. Indeed, the fact remains that at least 370 First People lay in unmarked graves – walked over, camped on, holidayed on. The memorial centre cannot come quick enough, and a history with a full suite of displays needs to be incorporated in such a centre and in the island’s museum.
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2014/s4106212.htm posted:13 Oct 2014 - Education Minister, Christopher Pyne, discusses the recommendations that the school curriculum be simplified.
EMMA ALBERICI: You talk about an absence of ideology. The report says the curriculum lacks focus on our Judeo-Christian heritage. Should that really be a priority?
CHRISTOPHER PYNE: Sure. That's not ideological. That's simply a statement of fact about what kind of country we are and where we've come from. So, before 1788, our history was Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and history almost exclusively. Since that time, obviously since colonisation, Western civilisation, our Judeo-Christian heritage has been the basis of our development as a nation. So therefore, learning about where we've come from is not ideological, it's simply learning about where we've come from.
EMMA ALBERICI: So does the Government specifically want to see more Christian teaching in schools?
CHRISTOPHER PYNE: No. And that's not what that recommendation says. It's not about teaching more Christianity, it's teaching our heritage. The fact that we are basically European since 1788 and that we've struggled in the last couple of hundred years to reconcile colonisation with our Indigenous heritage, and more recently we've been getting better at that and we want to get even better at that into the future. But knowing about our Western heritage is not repudiating our Indigenous heritage and it's not Christianity, it's just history.
https://newmatilda.com/2014/10/16/curriculum-reviewer-barry-spurr-mocks-abos-mussies-women-chinky-poos posted:Curriculum Reviewer Barry Spurr Mocks 'Abos, Mussies, Women, Chinky-Poos'
A University of Sydney Professor – employed by the federal government as a specialist consultant to review the national English curriculum – has described the Prime Minister as an “Abo lover” while at the same time advising the government to focus less on teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander literature in our nation’s schools, and place greater emphasis on western Judeo-Christian culture.
In email correspondence that spans more than two years, Barry Spurr, the nation’s leading Professor of Poetry, describes Aboriginal people as ‘human rubbish tips’ and “Abos”, and rails against the prevalence of Aboriginal culture in school curriculums, and within politics. But the exchanges are not just limited to First Nations people.
Professor Spurr also takes aim at “bogans” “fatsoes”, “Mussies” and “Chinky-Poos”, and laments the reality that Australia is less white than it was in the 1950s.
He calls Nelson Mandela a “darkie” and Desmond Tutu a “witch doctor”; describes his University of Sydney chancellor Belinda Hutchinson as “an appalling minx”; likens Methodists to “serpents”; refers to women as “whores”; and in response to a comment about a female victim of a serious sexual assault being a “worthless slut”, he suggests that she needs more than just ‘penis’ put in her mouth, before it’s “stitched up”.
In one email, Professor Spurr tells university colleagues and friends that 95 per cent of the students at Australian universities – including, presumably his own – should not be studying at tertiary institutions, and remarks that a colleague who publicly advanced that argument will be “derided as elitist, fascist, misogynist – the usual litany”.
“(But) he’s completely right. One day the Western world will wake up, when the Mussies and the chinky-poos have taken over,” he adds.
Even the “modern Brit” comes in for a serve, described by Professor Spurr as “the scum of the earth”.
Between September 2012 and late 2014, the emails were sent to around a dozen people, including very senior academics and officials within the University of Sydney.
Professor Spurr has this morning defended his email exchanges, telling New Matilda they were clearly intended to mock the “very extreme language” used.
“The comments that you refer to are largely to one recipient with whom I have had a whimsical linguistic game for many years of trying to outdo one another in extreme statements.
“These statements are not reflections of my views or his.
“What I say about the place of the study of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander language and literature in the curriculum is my considered professional view and not in any way influenced by these email exchanges which are linguistic play, and the numerous students of different races and of colour with whom I have worked for many years will testify that I have treated them with the same equity and dignity that I treat all my students.
“I find it astonishing that you would think that I would seriously hold those views and not realise, as a journalist, that these are emails of mock-shockng (sic) repartee, mocking, in fact, that very kind of extreme language.”
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While publicly, he argues the Aboriginal contribution to Australian literature is “minimal”, privately, he says the ‘Abo’ contribution is non-existent.
In an email written in April 19 this year, sent to two friends outside the University of Sydney, Professor Spurr reveals that Education Minister Christopher Pyne – the man who appointed him to the review – wants him to compare Australian school curriculums with curriculums from other countries.
“The Californian high school English curriculum has arrived (as Pyne wants me to compare ours with other countries). Another 300 pages of reading!
“And whereas the local curriculum has the phrase ‘Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander’ on virtually every one of its 300 pages, the Californian curriculum does not ONCE mention native Americans and has only a very slight representation of African-American literature (which, unlike Abo literature, actually exists and has some distinguished productions).”
In response to that specific discrepancy, Professor Spurr explained this morning: “My considered view is that it is very small, perhaps not zero precisely, so I used the term 'slight' to be as positive as I could be.”
Professor Spurr’s commentary on Aboriginal people and culture – and people of colour generally – are littered throughout the years of correspondence.
In April 2014, he rails against a ceremony at Uluru for the visiting royals, Prince William and Princess Catherine, at which entertainment is provided by “well known Aboriginal singer, Wingabanga Gumberumbul”, presumably a reference to Gurrumul Yunupingu. Professor Spurr calls the Prime Minister “gutless and hypocritical”, and blames his chief-of-staff Peta Credlin for the appearance of an ‘Abo’ singer.
“We have thousands of brilliant young Australians musicians, including the wonderful Nicole Car (who would wear her bra under her dress) currently on the brink of an international operatic career. Why aren’t they asked to perform? Abbott’s to blame for this. This is his day with them, his reception. He should have put his foot down and said, ‘No more Abos’. But he’s as gutless and hypocritical of the rest of them. No doubt Peta Whatsername said ‘Do it Tony. It makes you look like a sensitive guy’.”
In January this year, he writes that “Abo Lover Abbott and Adam Goodes” are Siamese Twins and will have to be surgically separated.
A screen capture of one of the Professor Spurr emails, which describes Tony Abbott as an 'Abo lover'.
In October 2013, he sends a long email about an Aboriginal family who lives down the road from him in inner western Sydney. He describes them as a ‘human rubbish tip’ and mocks Vice-Chancellor of Sydney University, Michael Spence for his support of Aboriginal people and culture under an email headed ‘Ancient Wisdom’.
“These are the people whose ‘ancient wisdom’, our V-C says, we should respect, and to whom we apologise on every possible occasion and whose rich culture we bow down before, confessing our wickedness in our mistreatment of them.
“All very well when you’re living in a multi-million dollar mansion in Woolahra (sic), to spout these feel-good emotions from a safe distance. I wonder how he’d like these manifestations of ancient wisdom living next door. The immediate neighbours tell me it has been hell on earth and, of course, their property values have plummeted. They’re living next door to a rubbish tip: human and material.”
Several of his emails direct friends and colleagues to Youtube videos which celebrate the British Monarchy and deride people of colour.
In one email from February 2013, headed “Look at 11.20 – no fatties, darkies or chinky-poos”, Professor Spurr urges recipients to celebrate an Australian school or church which appears to be made up entirely of white children.
In another email a year later, he links to a video which compares London in 1927 with London in 2013. Professor Spurr writes: “A delight until things turn sour around 4:00 with the emergence of the darkies.”
He also manages to line up Aboriginal people, Asians, Muslims, women and anyone obese in a single email sent a few days earlier, commenting: “No Abos, Chinky-poos, Mussies, graffiti, piercings, jeans, tattoos. BCP (Book of Common Prayer) in all Anglican chruches (sic); Latin Mass in all Roman ones. Not a woman to be seen in a sanctuary (church) anywhere. And no obese fatsoes. All the kiddies slim and bright eyed. Now utterly gone with the wind,” he writes.
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This afternoon, a spokesperson for Education Minister Christopher Pyne denied the government had anything to do with the appointment of Professor Spurr.
"Professor Spurr was one of 15 subject experts commissioned by the independent review to provide input on the Australian curriculum. He was appointed on the basis of his expertise and credentials as a leading Australian academic in the field of English.
"The appointment was not made by the Government. The Minister and his office had no input into the selection of any subject expert.
"Professor Spurr’s alleged private emails are a matter for him.
"The Minister utterly rejects and finds repugnant the denigration of any minority on the basis of their sex, race, sexual orientation or beliefs."
A spokesperson for the Prime Minister referred New Matilda to Mr Pyne's office.
tpaine posted:he's just representing his people, who are more racist than that
the ones who own all the mining companies?
Crow posted:tpaine posted:he's just representing his people, who are more racist than that
the ones who own all the mining companies?
Oh you mean, like gina rinehart. Well she doesnt have undue influence with the gov-
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/gina-rinehart-meets-coalition-mps-in-secret-trip-to-canberra-20131113-2xh77.html posted:Australia's richest woman, Gina Rinehart, invited a small group of Coalition friends for drinks in her private hotel suite, after planning a secret flight to Canberra to visit the Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce.
Some of Mrs Rinehart's closest political friends, the Speaker Bronwyn Bishop and Liberal Party senators Cory Bernardi and Michaelia Cash, were invited to join the billionaire for the intimate gathering on Wednesday night.
Gina Rinehart arrives at the Hyatt Hotel, Canberra, on Wednesday night.
The iron ore magnate, who has vigorously supported Prime Minister Tony Abbott's plans to abolish the carbon and mining taxes, suggested the politicians meet for drinks in her Canberra hotel room to avoid media attention.
It is understood the reason for Mrs Rinehart's surprise trip to Canberra was so she could attend Parliament House to watch Mr Joyce's maiden speech on Thursday as the newly elected MP for New England.
It is understood Mrs Rinehart's secretary booked a room in the Hyatt Hotel and organised a private jet to fly from Sydney to Canberra late on Wednesday.
The billionaire had also planned to meet senators Bernardi and Cash and the Speaker, Ms Bishop, for lunch on Thursday after Mr Joyce's speech.
Mrs Rinehart's close friendships with Coalition MPs have come under scrutiny during the recent expenses scandal. In 2011, Mrs Rinehart flew three Coalition MPs to India in a private jet, where they watched the granddaughter of her business partner marry in front of 10,000 guests.
At the time of inviting the politicians to the wedding, Mrs Rinehart was about to clinch a $1 billion coal deal with the bride's grandfather - G.V. Krishna Reddy, the founder of GVK, one of India's largest energy and infrastructure companies.
But while Mrs Rinehart paid for the politicians' flights to the wedding, Fairfax Media revealed that the three MPs - Barnaby Joyce, Julie Bishop and Teresa Gambaro - collectively claimed more than $12,000 in ''overseas study'' allowances to pay for their flights home.
Mr Joyce's justification for billing taxpayers was that he conducted a one-day ''study tour'' in Malaysia. During his afternoon in Kuala Lumpur Mr Joyce gleaned such insights as the fact that ''proximate to Kuala Lumpur and running to Singapore are substantial freeways that would look quite in place in an Australian capital city''.
Three months after the politicians joined Mrs Rinehart at the Indian wedding the GVK conglomerate bought a majority stake in the billionaire's ''Alpha'' coalmine in Queensland's Galilee Basin for $US1.26 billion.
Ah okay. Well at least shes not racist surely. Her dad would have taught her better than tha-
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Chinky-poos,
it hurts to know that i will never be this gay no matter how hard i try
Even the “modern Brit” comes in for a serve, described by Professor Spurr as “the scum of the earth”.
even a broken clock is right twice a day. i will rise above this.
someone photoshapop this image so she is shouting "He who controls the spice, controls the universe!" and the young man in back as piter de vries or whatever
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http://honisoit.com/2014/10/students-rally-as-uni-suspends-spurr/ posted:A rally titled ‘Sack Barry Spurr, Professor of Bigotry’ ended with an announcement that Professor of Poetry and Poetics Barry Spurr has been suspended from teaching and banned from campus.
Over the last two years Spurr used his university email account to send messages littered with racist and sexist slurs, New Matilda revealed yesterday.
“Professor Spurr is suspended, effective immediately, from teaching and engaging in any other University business and is precluded from attending any University campus, while the matter is investigated and dealt with in accordance with the terms of the University’s Enterprise Agreement,” Vice-Chancellor Spence wrote in an email to students.
“Racist, sexist or offensive language is not tolerated at the University of Sydney. The expectations for our staff and affiliates in respect of their professional and personal conduct are clearly set out in the University’s Code of Conduct.”
The rally, which began at 1pm outside Fisher Library and ended an hour later inside the John Woolley Building, was organised by the Students’ Representative Council (SRC) Education Department in response to bigoted comments made by Spurr.
Speeches were made by SRC Education Officer Ridah Hassan, NSW Greens candidate for Newtown Jenny Leong, SRC President-elect Kyol Blakeney, Sydney University Postgraduates Representative Association (SUPRA) International Students’ Officer Maral Hosseinpour, National Union of Students National Environment Officer Damian Ridgewell, and Undergraduate Fellow of Senate Patrick Massarani.
Among all speakers was an unsurprisingly definitive consensus that, in Hassan’s words, “ views have no place in this university… in this country!” The majority of speakers further criticised academics and officials who received Spurr’s emails but ostensibly did nothing about the offensive content therein.
With chants such as “Barry Spurr rhyme this, you’re a white supremacist,"
heh
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/education/christopher-pyne-backs-school-review-despite-barry-spurr-slurs/story-fn59nlz9-1227095209832 posted:FEDERAL Education Minister Christopher Pyne stands by a review of the school curriculum despite the involvement of an academic suspended for a series of racist emails.
University of Sydney poetry professor Barry Spurr was suspended last week over the messages in which he described Prime Minister Tony Abbott as an “Abo lover” and former South African president Nelson Mandela as a “darkie”, as well as lashing out at “Mussies” and “chinky-poos”.
Labor says Professor Spurr’s contribution to a review of the national curriculum means it is now tainted.
But Mr Pyne accused someone of leaking the emails to sabotage the government’s school reforms.
“I don’t endorse the remarks that he made in those emails,” he told Sky News on Sunday.
“But it doesn’t mean that the review of the curriculum has in any way been traduced.
“The review of the national curriculum is a very good review and it is being widely supported.”
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footy update
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/oct/20/barry-spurr-further-leaked-emails-reveal-detail-of-attack-on-adam-goodes posted:Professor Barry Spurr not only called Tony Abbott an “Abo lover”, claimed Aboriginal people were ‘human rubbish tips’ and vilified respected Aboriginal singer Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, but he also claimed Australian of the Year Adam Goodes, a prominent anti-racism warrior, would only need “depression and a disability” to “become the complete role model for Australians today”.
And according to Professor Spurr, Adam Goodes didn’t win Australian Of The Year for his strong and consistent stance against racism.
He won it so that Prime Minister Tony Abbott could put “Abos in the Constitution”.
The University of Sydney poetry professor was suspended from his job on Friday after New Matilda revealed a series of outrageously racist remarks sent in email correspondence over the course of two years.
Professor Spurr has maintained that the correspondence, written over a period of two years, was a ‘whimsical linguistic game’ between him and an old friend.
But a transcript of some of the emails – to be released by New Matilda later this evening – reveals that it was anything, and that it wasn’t just restricted to an old friend.
Senior University of Sydney colleagues were included in the correspondence, including this one, sent on January 26 this year shortly after AFL star Adam Goodes was presented the Australian Of the Year award by Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
Marngrook Footy Show host Grant Hansen told New Matilda he was offended by Professor Spurr’s insinuation that Tony Abbott was an “Abo lover”.
“Tony Abbott hasn’t done anything good for Indigenous people since he came into government. So that was pretty far off the mark,” Mr Hansen told New Matilda.
“The Abbott government has taken Aboriginal people backwards 30 years with the funding cuts. To say he is an ‘Abo lover’ is way off the mark,”
He said Adam Goodes deserved his award and should be celebrated, rather than consistently run down.
“I think he’s a great role model, but because he’s Aboriginal, it’s open slather to take pot shots at him. That’s the only reason people have a go at him,” Mr Hansen said.
“It’s a traditional racism in a way. Adam is a worthy winner and he was selected by a panel, he was picked on merit.”
Dr Gorman also said people were blinded by Goodes’ prowess on the football field, and did not realise just how important his engagement was within communities.
“People are rooted in their own ignorance, but if they got proactive and realised the things that Adam does within his own community that goes unnoticed, that’s really important in regards to engaging Indigenous youth about their potential and choices in life, and not to be going down a path that’s well-worn and negative.”
http://truth-out.org/news/item/27025-the-forgotten-coup-how-america-and-britain-crushed-the-government-of-its-ally-australia posted:The Forgotten Coup - How the US and Britain Crushed the Government of Their "Ally" Australia
Saturday, 25 October 2014 09:52
By John Pilger
Across the political and media elite in Australia, a silence has descended on the memory of the great, reforming prime minister Gough Whitlam, who has died. His achievements are recognized, if grudgingly, his mistakes noted in false sorrow. But a critical reason for his extraordinary political demise will, they hope, be buried with him.
Australia briefly became an independent state during the Whitlam years, 1972-75. An American commentator wrote that no country had "reversed its posture in international affairs so totally without going through a domestic revolution." Whitlam ended his nation’s colonial servility. He abolished royal patronage, moved Australia toward the Non-Aligned Movement, supported "zones of peace" and opposed nuclear weapons testing.
Although not regarded as on the left of the Labor Party, Whitlam was a maverick social Democrat of principle, pride and propriety. He believed that a foreign power should not control his country's resources and dictate its economic and foreign policies. He proposed to "buy back the farm." In drafting the first Aboriginal land rights legislation, his government raised the ghost of the greatest land grab in human history, Britain’s colonization of Australia, and the question of who owned the island-continent’s vast natural wealth.
Latin Americans will recognize the audacity and danger of this "breaking free" in a country whose establishment was welded to great, external power. Australians had served every British imperial adventure since the Boxer rebellion was crushed in China. In the 1960s, Australia pleaded to join the United States in its invasion of Vietnam, then provided "black teams" to be run by the CIA. US diplomatic cables published last year by WikiLeaks disclose the names of leading figures in both main parties, including a future prime minister and foreign minister, as Washington’s informants during the Whitlam years.
Whitlam knew the risk he was taking. The day after his election, he ordered that his staff should not be "vetted or harassed" by the Australian security organization, ASIO - then, as now, tied to Anglo-American intelligence. When his ministers publicly condemned the US bombing of Vietnam as "corrupt and barbaric," a CIA station officer in Saigon said, "We were told the Australians might as well be regarded as North Vietnamese collaborators."
Whitlam demanded to know if and why the CIA was running a spy base at Pine Gap, near Alice Springs, a giant vacuum cleaner, which, as Edward Snowden revealed recently, allows the US to spy on everyone. "Try to screw us or bounce us," the prime minister warned the US ambassador, " will become a matter of contention."
Victor Marchetti, the CIA officer who had helped set up Pine Gap, later told me, "This threat to close Pine Gap caused apoplexy in the White House. . . . a kind of Chile was set in motion."
Pine Gap's top-secret messages were decoded by a CIA contractor, TRW. One of the decoders was Christopher Boyce, a young man troubled by the "deception and betrayal of an ally." Boyce revealed that the CIA had infiltrated the Australian political and trade union elite and referred to the governor-general of Australia, Sir John Kerr, as "our man Kerr."
Kerr was not only the Queen’s man, he had long-standing ties to Anglo-American intelligence. He was an enthusiastic member of the Australian Association for Cultural Freedom, described by Jonathan Kwitny, of the Wall Street Journal, in his book, The Crimes of Patriots, as, "an elite, invitation-only group . . . exposed in Congress as being founded, funded and generally run by the CIA." The CIA "paid for Kerr's travel, built his prestige . . . Kerr continued to go to the CIA for money."
When Whitlam was re-elected for a second term, in 1974, the White House sent Marshall Green to Canberra as ambassador. Green was an imperious, sinister figure, who worked in the shadows of America's "deep state." Known as the "coupmaster," he had played a central role in the 1965 coup against President Sukarno in Indonesia - which cost up to a million lives. One of his first speeches in Australia was to the Australian Institute of Directors and described by an alarmed member of the audience as "an incitement to the country's business leaders to rise against the government."
The Americans and British worked together. In 1975, Whitlam discovered that Britain's MI6 was operating against his government. "The Brits were actually decoding secret messages coming into my foreign affairs office," he said later. One of his ministers, Clyde Cameron, told me, "We knew MI6 was bugging cabinet meetings for the Americans."
In the 1980s, senior CIA officers revealed that the "Whitlam problem" had been discussed "with urgency" by the CIA's director, William Colby, and the head of MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield. A deputy director of the CIA said, "Kerr did what he was told to do."
On November 10, 1975, Whitlam was shown a top secret telex message sourced to Theodore Shackley, the notorious head of the CIA's East Asia Division, who had helped run the coup against Salvador Allende in Chile two years earlier.
Shackley's message was read to Whitlam. It said that the prime minister of Australia was a security risk in his own country. The day before, Kerr had visited the headquarters of the Defence Signals Directorate, Australia's NSA, where he was briefed on the "security crisis."
On November 11 - the day Whitlam was to inform Parliament about the secret CIA presence in Australia - he was summoned by Kerr. Invoking archaic vice regal "reserve powers," Kerr sacked the democratically elected prime minister. The Whitlam problem" was solved, and Australian politics never recovered, nor the nation its true independence.
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haha holy shit I thought Americans were bad but we at least pretend to feel some sympathy for the natives, you Aussies are nuts. Shit like this makes me hope that curses and magic are real, someone deserves something terrible for this
But yeah, they don't do a very good job of hiding their white supremacist attitude. They don't have to. This is Straya. Most Strayans are fooled by Tony Abbott's photo ops with friendly blackfellas, to the point where psychos like that Barry Spurr guy apparently think he's an 'Abo lover'. The mind boggles.
Abbott has appointed a hand picked, unelected 'Indigenous Advisory Council' headed by Warren Mundine. Mundine is notable for such achievements as: divorcing his second wife for being 'too Aboriginal' and then marrying the daughter of the directors of one of the most influential right wing think tanks in the country; allegedly brokering corrupt deals for mining companies to destroy Aboriginal sacred sites; being hired to broker more deals for coal miners and finding out Aboriginal land councils will no longer deal with him.
Naturally, his endorsement of right wing policies always gets a positive airing in the press, along with other 'coconuts' such as Noel Pearson and Marcia Langton. Which would explain why First Nations protestors at the G20 burned effigies of all three along with half a dozen Australian flags.
Boy, is that flag burning ever getting some classic responses. Lol
Petrol posted:Most Strayans are fooled by Tony Abbott's photo ops with friendly blackfellas, to the point where psychos like that Barry Spurr guy apparently think he's an 'Abo lover'.
this is what trots dont get, you have to keep pushing and as soon as they give ground on something tell them its not enough
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