Disabled people are treated like our bodies, our stories, are public property - especially so for those of us who are Aboriginal, who are Black, or People of Colour, who are trans or queer, or read as women.
Consider that if someone with a disability is posting their mutual aid links, either give/share/support or just move on.
Don't message us asking why we're disabled or why we're not on disability support pensions - that's nunya. NUNYA.
Yugambeh–Bundjalung man Luther Cora’s portrait of a young woman: ‘I’ve found that I can use my photography to be a voice and speak for me and my people and other people will listen and pay attention.’
I'm a disabled Indigenous queer person who exists on Jobseeker, which means almost 50% ($269/week) below the poverty line ($489/week).
After moving house a few months ago (the first time in 10 years), I didn't get rent assistance because of a centrelink mistake. That mistake combined with the moving costs has left me almost $3000 in debt.
I'm in a new house with a new landlord, and am barely able to cover my portion of the rent at the moment, let alone pay for bills, medical costs, and food.
Please if you could consider helping, I'd be super grateful.
Oral #stories as #Indigenous#histories: How long can stories be passed down by word of mouth? - New research suggests that #Aboriginal#Tasmanians' oral tradition tells of geological events and astronomical conditions stretching back 12,000+ years.
The title for the 12ft link to the SMH article is "Police should not be responsible for Closing the Gap targets, says commissioner", which is accurate, but even after a quick skim of the actual report, seems to very much understate the problems. This quote buried in the report is an example:...
Settler Reply Guys spending more time arguing about how it's not fair they're expected to do something about the referendum results.
Settlers using "we haven't been told by Aboriginal people what to do yet" as though their racism and white supremacist colonialism is our problem to fix.
Settlers pulling out the "you people" phrase in the replies.
"The data, released to the Redfern Legal Centre (RLS), also revealed 56 children aged under 18 were strip-searched over the past financial year, including 25 underage girls, three of whom were 12"
In Australia's Parliament this afternoon (16th Oct) there was a debate around The Water Trigger. The Bill needs to pass bc it is urgently needed to ensure that gas fracking projects don't harm local water resources and the local environment.
In NT two projects are in the final stages of authorisation. Both will poison water in the local #indigenous communities.
Precisely.
Go without water ?
In Australia 2023 ???
Saturday's referendum NO-voters need to realise that the referendum wasnt about division, bc Australia has division and inequality ALREADY .
How about some fracking in Dutton's seat?? God forbid !!!! His supporters would demand a #Voice and rightly so.
How many Australians really KNOW anything about First Nations' hardships or how the machinery of White Australia racism really works?
Truth is, like all other #FirstNations globally, they are in the way of the colonising overlords who want to seize land and resources for their own use.
And historically those overlords just needed to "wipe out" those indigenous ppls by any means possible: massacres, displacement, theft, siege, exploitation, disease, death, imprisonment...
The way Australia's First Nations are being treated nowadays is nothing new. They are unheard and invisible and 60% of voters are just fine with that.
If one more settler tells me that the referendum results happened because of some reason other than anti-Indigeneity I'm going to fucking snap I swear.
@cs
So the 97% Australians of Settler Heritage voted overwhelmingly against giving First Nations any voice at all at the big white table of government .
This shows that most of the AoSH majority have brought ALL their nasty prejudices (and ignorance) with them when they emigrated here and have learnt nothing.
@aby You can call it socialism or left leaning but what this referendum shows is both the overwhelming meanness of 2/3 Australians and/or the gullibility that they believed the dross swilling around social media.
An educated, empathetic and open minded population wouldn't have voted this way.
[NSW] Police frequently ignore Coroner's Office and Law Enforcement Conduct Commission about over-representation of Aboriginal people in criminal justice system, contradict own goals, don't report required data, & other failures. (12ft.io)
The title for the 12ft link to the SMH article is "Police should not be responsible for Closing the Gap targets, says commissioner", which is accurate, but even after a quick skim of the actual report, seems to very much understate the problems. This quote buried in the report is an example:...