In May, the #Queensland Liberal-National opposition provided bipartisan support for legislation establishing a 3-4 year #TruthTelling process, as a necessary precursor to the (extremely belated) negotiation of a treaty or #treaties with Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples. And they did so in response to the #UluruStatementFromTheHeart (that had called for #Voice, #Treaty and #Truth).
At the time, opposition leader #DavidCrisafulli had personally encouraged people in his state to "embrace this [truth-telling] wholeheartedly". On the day the legislation passed, he said: "I believe in truth-telling and to me that means telling it like it is. […] We cannot shy away from the real experiences of #Indigenous Australians throughout history. We must tell the truth about the real challenges they are facing today."
But now, five months later yet before any of the formal processes of truth-telling have begun, he's withdrawn #LNP support for the legislation, promising to tear it up should his party be voted into government at the next election.
He claims he is doing so because he is listening—to the voices of the 'No' voters, who outnumbered the 'Yes' voters at last Saturday's #referendum.
By reneging on their previous support for truth-telling, the Queensland #LNP are also showing they don't really respect the voters they claim to be acting on behalf of.
The #referendum wasn't about #Truth-telling or #Treaty (despite the No campaign's various fear-mongering attempts to hypothesize all kinds of treaty outcomes). It was about #Voice.
Qld LNP have decided that when voters said "No" to Voice, what they really meant was no to Voice+Truth+Treaty.
(Imagine the bemusement at LNP HQ if #QldLabor had responded to the resounding 'Yes' in the 2018 postal survey on #MarriageEquality by saying "what voters have really said here is that they think marriage has been too restrictive, so we're going to introduce legislation for #polycule marriages"...)
Constitutional legal theory typically embraces the argument that constitutional (rather than merely legislative) protections are necessary to prevent a vulnerable minority from having their rights and basic wellbeing undermined by the desires of the majority. This decision by Qld LNP is an excellent illustration of that very phenomenon (the preferences of the majority trumping the plight of the minority), and so a confirmation of why Indigenous peoples were asking for a constitutional Voice in the first place.
Apparently, it's #BiVisibilityWeek and Friday is #BiVisibilityDay ? This is clearly a plot to foil our plans, as we were counting on our invisibility powers to accomplish a daring casino heist this week. Oh well 🤷🏼♀️
With bi visibility week and trans visibility day and all the other visibility And awareness days, I am far too perceivable as a bi lesbian nonbinary trans woman with ADHD and mental health conditions. This is really undermining my villain arc. 😤
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He deposed his Captain, Charles Vane, because he ordered the crew to flee from a french man-o-war.
And supposedly his #polycule partners Anne Bonny and Mary Read wanted to fight their final captors but were the only ones left standing on deck after Rackham ordered the others to retreat under deck.
After their capture one of the two also supposedly told him that he was only getting executed because he wasn't brave enough to die fighting
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