The ethnic cleansing unit

It's been 20 years since the Cronulla Riots. So what have we learned? >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-26/20-years-on-from-the-cronulla-riots/105686104
#CronullaRiots #NSW #beaches #riots #EthnicCleansing #violence #conflict #xenophobia #SettlerSociety #monoculture #culture #FarRight #SpeechPractices #LTI #LinguaTertiiImperii

"Larissa Behrendt ... advocates for the inclusion of ancient Indigenous philosophies into our traditional Western liberal traditions, to create a truly inclusive and engaging democracy."

She..."reminds us that the legal system has been used to exclude and discriminate against First Nations people. " (transcript)
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-04/larissa-behrendt-boyer-lecture-justice-democracy/105965580

Larissa Behrendt's Boyer Lecture argues justice and imagination are an investment in democracy (audio)
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https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/boyerlectures/larissa-behrendt-justice-ideas-inclusion/105872300

Epistemological violence and epistemic injustice >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemic_injustice
#IndigenousPeoples #Constitution #democracy #law #injustice #exclusion #IndigenousKnowledge #EpistemologicalViolence #EpistemicInjustice #SettlerSociety #Australia

The housing shortage and wealth accumulation in Australia.
Houses/ 'homes' as commercial enterprises

" In Australia, the origin of the idea that housing is to be valued primarily as a commodity for producing private wealth is colonisation. It is part of our creation story. " Former Victorian Supreme Court justice Kevin Bell.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-02/need-for-housing-inspires-artist/105939626

Plan to apply commercial council rates for short-stay rentals
"These properties operate as a commercial enterprise...They generate income and place higher demand on infrastructure and social services, similar to any hotel or motel."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-02/mount-gambier-council-short-stay-rates-airbnb-changes/105943950
#housing #homes #IndigenousDisplacement #unhoused #inequality #insecurity #Airbnb #shortterm #accommodation #speculation #traffic #TourismImpacts #MultipleProperties #BellingenShire #commercialisation #suburbia #BAU #MeInc #SettlerSociety #narrative #landlordism #rentierisation

About 90 per cent of New South Wales farmers have been victims of crime.

"The University of New England research shows theft, trespass and illegal hunting are the most common offences, while confidence in the courts is low. Few farmers report stock theft."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-01/farm-crime-survey-rural-theft-nsw-farmers/105953178
#rural #crime #ThinPolicing #law #TightKnitCommunity #reprisals #arson #neighbourhoods #hunting #pastoralism #community #farmers #theft #SettlerSociety #countryside #NSW

The dangers of rural extremist enclaves

"Thin policing and limited services in remote areas compound these concerns. Regional officers are often spread thinly across vast distances. Programs designed to counter violent extremism, or even provide basic mental health and social support, are far less available outside metropolitan centres. This leaves rural communities with fewer buffers against dangerous ideologies. As a sense of victimhood is strongly associated with radicalisation, equally important is the perceived injustices often felt by rural communities. When communities feel ignored or disparaged, extremist narratives take root. "

"Policies that visibly invest in rural infrastructure, health, and digital connectivity, often key rural concerns, are not just good economics, they can strengthen and integrate rural communities."
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https://theconversation.com/far-right-extremists-are-setting-up-rural-enclaves-around-the-world-we-need-to-counter-the-threat-they-pose-267857
#EthnoNationalism #rural #RuralCommunities #vulnerability #WhiteSupremacy #SettlerSociety #PhenotypicAppearance #exclusion

Cattle swallows Australian landscape and biodiversity

Time for a Big Cow sculpture of gargantuan size? >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-21/agricultural-livestock-big-cow-art-popular-genre-paintings/105858568
#biodiversity #wildlife #pastoralism #culture #ungulates #IntroducedSpecies #meat #SettlerSociety

It took just 60 years for red foxes to colonise Australia from Victoria to the Pilbara

"European red foxes and domestic cats brought to Australia kill about 300 million native animals in Australia every year and remain the major driver of past and current extinctions."

"The first red foxes, (Vulpes vulpes), to arrive in Australia were deliberately released by European colonialists in 1870 in three Victorian locations – Werribee, Corio (near Geelong) and Ballarat. They were introduced for the “noble” sport of fox hunting."

"Unfortunately, the suppression of dingoes across Australia following European colonisation is at least partly to blame for the explosion in fox numbers because there are not sufficient densities of dingoes control foxes. Foxes flourish in areas modified by humans. We show that their populations are densest around urban centres, and they do well after land is cleared for agriculture."
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https://theconversation.com/it-took-just-60-years-for-red-foxes-to-colonise-australia-from-victoria-to-the-pilbara-267322
#biodiversity #NativeWildlife #conservation #dingo #extinction #hunting #SettlerSociety #synanthropes #InvasiveSpecies #cats #foxes #BellingenShire