How about we crowd fund the $10000 to get Zachary Rolfe to come and speak.
..in a dark alley somewhere.
..to me.
Anyone in?
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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
The Guardian · Zachary Rolfe offered speaking services on ‘leadership, ethical decision-making’ for up to $10,000
Help Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair (DAAF):
DAAF only comes around once a year, and this year Art Centres like Moa Arts are in danger of not being able to make the journey to Darwin.
daaf-travel-appeal-2025.raiselysite.comDAAF Travel Appeal 2025DAAF: Donate today and provide urgent travel assistance to remote Indigenous Art Centres coming to DAAF
A striking new #Aboriginal sculpture will land at #Sydney's Circular Quay https://www.timeout.com/sydney/news/a-striking-new-5-5-metre-sculpture-celebrating-first-nations-women-is-coming-to-sydneys-harbourside-061225
Excellent! While we are at it, can we have all the statues of racist, white British colonials removed.
Time Out · A striking new sculpture celebrating First Nations women is coming to Sydney's harbourside
I never knew there is this guy/#musician of traditional #Andean #music who went all the way to #China to make a mark there. His name is Jean Atauje. This piece is called "The Last Of The Mohicans". The #Mohicans were the #aboriginal #Americans who were wiped out by #European invaders.
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
The Guardian · Expanded ‘Jack’s law’ police powers could lead to further ‘surveillance and harassment’ of some Queenslanders, expert warns
Perth rallies against Indigenous deaths in custody in third day of protests
By Tabarak Al Jrood
Perth rally organiser and Indigenous elder Hedley Hayward said the community was standing alongside the rest of the country in demanding justice for Aboriginal people who had died in police custody.
ABC News · Dozens rally in Perth CBD in solidarity with nationwide protests against Indigenous deaths in custody
Community services buckling under demand for mental health support
By Emily JB Smith
Mental health support services in regional WA are in such short supply that severely unwell residents are turning to grassroots community service groups, which are struggling to cope with surging demand.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-07/mental-health-support-surging-demand-in-esperance/105360058
ABC News · Mental health support's surging demand puts pressure on Esperance community services
Community services buckling under demand for mental health support
By Emily JB Smith
Mental health support services in regional WA are in such short supply that severely unwell residents are turning to grassroots community service groups, which are struggling to cope with surging demand.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-07/mental-health-support-surging-demand-in-esperance/105360058
ABC News · Mental health support's surging demand puts pressure on Esperance community services
B.C. cedes much of Nuchatlitz provincial park to Nuchatlaht First Nation
"The B.C. government has quietly ceded a large portion of a provincial park off the west coast of Vancouver Island, in response to a precedent-setting court ruling on an Indigenous land claim.
Public access to parts of #Nuchatlitz Park is no longer assured, after the B.C. Supreme Court declared last year that the #Nuchatlaht, a First Nation with 180 members, has proved #Aboriginal title to 1,140 hectares of land on the north end of #Nootka Island."
Opinion: It is their land, we need to be quiet and mind our own business.
#FirstNations #Indigenous #BC
#Canada #VancouverIsland
News.iAsk.ca AIB.C. cedes much of Nuchatlitz provincial park to Nuchatlaht First Nation
'We need justice': Kumanjayi White remembered at Alice Springs vigil
By Annabel Bowles, Melissa McKay, and Anisha Pillarisetty
Relatives and friends of Kumanjayi White along with members of the Alice Springs community have come together to mourn and demand "justice", 10 days on from the young Warlpiri man's death.
#BlackDeathsInCustody #Aboriginal #AnnabelBowles #MelissaMcKay # #AnishaPillarisetty
ABC News · Calls for 'justice' at emotional Alice Springs vigil after Kumanjayi White's death in police custody
A #system whereby #police investigate themselves leads to #perpetrators being #protected against the #consequences of their #crimes.
Sydney Criminal Lawyers · The Australian System Is Designed to Deny Accountability for Aboriginal Deaths in CustodyA system whereby police investigate themselves in relation to deaths in custody protects perpetrators against the consequences of crime and misconduct.
The #Walpiri man with #disabilities stopped breathing and #died after being held down by plain clothes #officers inside a #supermarket.
Sydney Criminal Lawyers · Australian Authorities Play Dumb Over Yet Another Aboriginal Death in CustodyThe Walpiri man with disabilities lost consciousness, stopped breathing and died after being held down by plain clothes police officers inside an Alice Springs supermarket.
Murujuga (Burrup Peninsula) on the western coast of the Australian continent is home to the world's largest collection of paleolithic petroglyphs (rock carvings), an ancient art gallery containing around one million images carved into the rocks, some dated to at least 45,000 years old. Many of the images depict Australia's distinctive fauna, including extinct creatures like the thylacine, as well as the oldest known representation of a human face. The rocks are themselves noteworthy as coming from some of the oldest igneous bedrock in the world (around 2.7 billion years old). And the region is home to five #Aboriginal nations who are the inheritors of fifty thousand years of continuous human occupation and culture.
The place is an obvious candidate for #UNESCO World Heritage protection.
However...
The Burrup peninsula is also the location of the #NorthWestShelf gas hub, a massive piece of #DirtyEnergy infrastructure that has played a significant role in placing Australia at or near the top globally of liquefied natural gas exporters. #LNG
Over the last forty or fifty years gas industry activity on the peninsula has measurably degraded the artworks, which have survived intact for forty or fifty thousand years.
#Auspol #FossilfFuelIndusrty #CulturalHeritage #Aboriginal
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Tom Noytuna uses newly installed Telstra telephone to call clan members to a ritual ceremony at Korlobidahdah in Arnhem Land (Australia). (1980)
UNESCO refers Murujuga World Heritage list bid back to #Australia, calls for more protection for rock art https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-28/unesco-murujuga-world-heritage-list-call/105347012
The #Australian government couldn’t give a rats fart for #Aboriginal heritage. It cares only about $$$
ABC News · UNESCO refers Murujuga World Heritage list bid back to Australia, calls for more protection for rock art
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.
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.
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.