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Marcia Langton
A way forward after the Voice
“This new policy pivot to economic development, while it must be implemented in a disputatious political environment, draws attention to the universal aspiration for Indigenous economic parity in a way that no other national Indigenous affairs policy has in the past 50 years.”
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John Hewson
Dutton and his dog whistle
“Dutton is again tapping into an anti-immigrant sentiment he’s long been cultivating, in recent months referencing supposed surges in arrivals of boat people, to reignite debate over people smugglers and border security. This is a dangerous moment in light of the series of, at times ugly, protests and demonstrations related to the war in the Middle East.”
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Choreographer and dancer Luke Murphy
Acclaimed Irish choreographer and dancer Luke Murphy – whose dance theatre series Volcano has its Australian premiere at the Brisbane Festival – puts the sweating body at the centre of urgent questions.
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Treasurer, doesn’t federal government backing of Brisbane’s Olympics confiscate 30 billion off north and central Queensland’s coal and copper miners, cane and cattle farmers, giving it to the IOC, whose Paris opening ceremony was, I quote, ‘an orgiastic pagan ritual denigrating Christianity’? Treasurer, didn’t Christians abolish slavery, create from a brutal imperium Pax Romana, from the Dark Ages, the Renaissance? Didn’t communism murder 78 million people? Didn’t Christian Gorbachev, the Pope and Charlie Wilson, as Christians, abolish communism? Didn’t pagan rituals sacrifice children to the tree and crocodile gods? Do such rituals still live on, Mr Treasurer?
The independent member for Kennedy continues his campaign against funding for the Brisbane Olympics. Unfortunately, a number of the issues raised are outside the treasurer’s formal responsibilities.
