Archive for 'Othering'
Bill Shorten meets Donald Trump on highway 457
Posted by John, November 16th, 2016 - under Othering, Racism.
Tags: ALP, Australia first, Australian Labor Party, Dogwhistling, Donald Trump
Comments: 1
Labor thinks it is on a winner with its Australia First propaganda. Expect to see much more Aussie jobs rhetoric and dog whistling from the ALP. Of course, like Trump, most of this will be verbiage without action. Â Where was Labor for example when the car industry was shutting down?
Labor, rather than dog whistling about foreign workers, could make some real changes to industrial relations law in Australia. The first one would be to enshrine the right to strike at any time in legislation. The second would be to allow unions access to all workers to explain pay and conditions, and for building industry and other dangerous workplaces, to enforce safety standards
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The roots of Hansonism
Posted by John, July 19th, 2016 - under Othering, Pauline Hanson, Racism.
Tags: Hanson
Comments: 1
Pauline Hanson is one expression of the 30 years of state Islamophobia, racism, locking up refugees, the Northern Territory intervention etc etc. We need to fight Hanson AND the Labor and Liberal policies that create the cesspit in which she and all the others like her can and do live. We need to build a mass movement.
I don’t have a visa – what are you going to do Australian border fascists?
Posted by John, August 28th, 2015 - under Othering, Refugees.
Tags: Asylum seekers, Australian Border Force, Authoritarianism
Comments: none
The demonstration against Australian Border Force shows the way forward to beat back this deepening authoritarianism – protest, protest, protest. Do as those in Melbourne did. Occupy the centre of town. It is a lesson the refugee movement more generally and other movements like the equal marriage campaign could learn. On the streets to beat the new authoritarianism, defend the oppressed and win or win back our rights. The next time Border Force tries it on let’s bring out thousands against them.
Je suis Zaky Mallah anyone?
Posted by John, June 25th, 2015 - under ISIS, Islamic State, Islamists, Islamophobia, Othering, The Other, Zaky Mallah.
Tags: Free speech
Comments: 5
These are dangerous times. The Abbott government is strangling differences outside the narrow neoliberal mainstream. It is gathering extreme powers to itself under the lie of protecting Australia. It is othering significant sections of Australian society. It is trying to silence the Human Rights Commission and the ABC
The danger is real. That is why it is important to fight every attack of this rotten Liberal government. A good start will be the protests on 18 and 19 July across Australia against the Abbott endorsed (nudge nudge wink wink) Reclaim White Australia rallies.