OT: Current Affairs and Politics

[hindy111]

Ping @hindy111 - Gronk has you covered on this one. Stick to painting letterboxes.

You probably could pay someone to paint yours. Battlers like myself can't afford that. Especially now our mortgages have almost doubled.

 

[Soren Lorenson]

Ok brains trust. Why is NewsLtd spelling black, blak in this article? It happens 5 times, can't be a coincidence.

Moving forward, the senator questioned why the Prime Minister had invited Peter Dutton to the Voice referendum group meeting, but not members of the blak sovereignty movement.

“I’ve never been invited. So, I will put that out there to the prime minister and the minister for Indigenous Australians that the blak sovereignty grassroots movement wants to meet with the two advisory groups that Labor set up and through a hand-picked process,” she added.

https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/royals/lidia-thorpe-makes-shock-royal-request-after-quitting-greens/news-story/f42cd23ba12f7f1da51b98bddd03008f

 

[Gronk]

Ok brains trust. Why is NewsLtd spelling black, blak in this article? It happens 5 times, can't be a coincidence.

Moving forward, the senator questioned why the Prime Minister had invited Peter Dutton to the Voice referendum group meeting, but not members of the blak sovereignty movement.

“I’ve never been invited. So, I will put that out there to the prime minister and the minister for Indigenous Australians that the blak sovereignty grassroots movement wants to meet with the two advisory groups that Labor set up and through a hand-picked process,” she added.

https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/royals/lidia-thorpe-makes-shock-royal-request-after-quitting-greens/news-story/f42cd23ba12f7f1da51b98bddd03008f

The Greens Senator who jumped ship to sit on the cross bench refers to her new party or movement as Blak Sovereignty.

 

[Soren Lorenson]

The Greens Senator who jumped ship to sit on the cross bench refers to her new party or movement as Blak Sovereignty.

Why are they Blak and not Black? btw the ABC don't seem to have picked up on the distinction.

What is 'black sovereignty' and how does it conflict with the Voice?

Senator Lidia Thorpe's decision to quit the Greens to represent "a strong grassroots black sovereign movement" has left some wondering what the movement is and how it differs from a Voice to Parliament.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Gary Gutful]

FFS I’ve been calling it Blaq!

 

[Gronk]

Why are they Blak and not Black? btw the ABC don't seem to have picked up on the distinction.

What is 'black sovereignty' and how does it conflict with the Voice?

Senator Lidia Thorpe's decision to quit the Greens to represent "a strong grassroots black sovereign movement" has left some wondering what the movement is and how it differs from a Voice to Parliament.

www.abc.net.au

 

[the phantom menace]

FFS I’ve been calling it Blaq!

Isn't that a shirt brand?

 

[the phantom menace]

I think (but am not sure) that Blak is a spelling that is usually only used by people to who it applies "owning" the term? So unless directly quoting, the ABC would probably leave use of it well alone.

 

[the phantom menace]

e.g. from Bangarra dance group a few (8?) years back

 

[Soren Lorenson]

I think (but am not sure) that Blak is a spelling that is usually only used by people to who it applies "owning" the term? So unless directly quoting, the ABC would probably leave use of it well alone.

ABC were direct quoting Thorpe - the same quotes as the news article. The Guardian too. I just find it interesting/ curious is all.

Lidia Thorpe quits Greens party to pursue black sovereignty

Victorian senator to join crossbench, where she ‘will be able to speak freely on all issues from a sovereign perspective’

www.theguardian.com

 

[Soren Lorenson]

Blak or Black or Blackfella or Blackfulla

Let’s get back to Blak. The provenance of this term goes back to 1994 and Aboriginal artist Destiny Deacon, who urged art curators Hetti Perkins and Claire Williamson to use Blak instead of Black for an exhibition. It ended up being titled Blakness: Blak City Culture. Last year, I asked Deacon the reason she advocated Blak and it came sharply back to the issue of representation. Growing up, Deacon always heard white people calling Aboriginal people “black c—s”. She wanted to take the “c” out of Black.

Between then and now, the use of Blak has taken on additional functions.

It still signifies urban, contemporary Indigeneity, but has also become important in differentiating the Blak experience from the racialised experiences of non-Indigenous communities of colour. Blackfella or Blackfulla is now often used for the same purpose, but Blak also carries with it connotations of actively engaged, critical-political conscience, which Blackfella or Blackfulla, arguably, doesn’t always convey. The concept and relational use of Blak also continues to emerge, which adds to its dynamism.

Blak, Black, Blackfulla - Language is important, but it can be tricky

Jack Latimore's guide to appropriate language and the importance of respect.

www.reconciliation.org.au

 

[hindy111]

That actualy looks a lot like Mik

 

[Twizzle]

Blak or Black or Blackfella or Blackfulla

Let’s get back to Blak. The provenance of this term goes back to 1994 and Aboriginal artist Destiny Deacon, who urged art curators Hetti Perkins and Claire Williamson to use Blak instead of Black for an exhibition. It ended up being titled Blakness: Blak City Culture. Last year, I asked Deacon the reason she advocated Blak and it came sharply back to the issue of representation. Growing up, Deacon always heard white people calling Aboriginal people “black c—s”. She wanted to take the “c” out of Black.

Between then and now, the use of Blak has taken on additional functions.

It still signifies urban, contemporary Indigeneity, but has also become important in differentiating the Blak experience from the racialised experiences of non-Indigenous communities of colour. Blackfella or Blackfulla is now often used for the same purpose, but Blak also carries with it connotations of actively engaged, critical-political conscience, which Blackfella or Blackfulla, arguably, doesn’t always convey. The concept and relational use of Blak also continues to emerge, which adds to its dynamism.

Blak, Black, Blackfulla - Language is important, but it can be tricky

Jack Latimore's guide to appropriate language and the importance of respect.

www.reconciliation.org.au

well that clears that up then

makes no sense to me though

 

[Gronk]

Does anyone really believe that the restraint he showed when considering increasing rates was to protect Morrison ?

 

[the phantom menace]

I think the RB on his watch have been/are incompetent, and simply let it get out of hand.

 

[strider]

We all know its exclusively Putin's fault ... he is clearly a LNP lacky

 

[hindy111]

We all know its exclusively Putin's fault ... he is clearly a LNP lacky

Lockdown cause it imo.

 

[Bandwagon]

Does anyone really believe that the restraint he showed when considering increasing rates was to protect Morrison ?

I think that there's a good probability that in the few months leading up to the election the need to act was recognised, and consideration was given to the likelihood that in doing so it would be politicized, and so they acted with caution.

I don't think that's particularly an unreasonable position to take, mainly because it would or could infer a position by the RBA that the government was getting it wrong, by tightening monetary policy in contravention of the expansionary policy of the government. And as such, leading into an election it would display a lack of confidence by the RBA in the governments fiscal policy.

The problem though for mine is that as I've already posted, they got it wrong, and they should have acted far earlier, and now we're seeing the result of that. Which then calls into question how "independently" the RBA was working from the government. Because if they were simply working in concert, they aren't working to their remit.

And that is pretty problematic.

Now I'm just a f**king pleb with a pretty basic understanding of this shit but even I could see the inflation issue was far more of a problem than was being made out, so I really struggle to see how merkins whose primary job it is to deal with that couldn't also see it.

 

[Gronk]

Those cookers who have moved on from lockdown freedom to adopt Q anon malarkey, sovereign citizens, politicians are covering for pedos something something freemasons etc are going mainstream.

 

[Bandwagon]

It's important to be able to have a laugh about shit like that, 'cause objectively these merkins ideas really are pretty funny.

But there is a point where the laughing should stop, and the tasering start.