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The Republican presidential contender is an acquired taste. Given the alternative, it's a taste persnickety conservatives should make the effort to acquire
Sep 09 2024
4 mins
The proportions of Aboriginal children and young people placed in a relative or kin placement or with an Aboriginal foster carer have decreased, and the proportion of Aboriginal children who were reunified with their families has declined.
Sep 09 2024
17 mins
Today’s Aboriginal Myths and Legends
It’s usually great to see million-dollar managing directors rolling their sleeves up for grassroots activity. But as for David Anderson ($1.16m), the ABC’s managing director, I’m not so sure. That’s because I don’t think bigshots like him should be indoctrinating schoolkids as young as four or five about Aboriginal cult status. Sixty percent of voters last October didn’t like that playbook one bit.
He’s right at the front of an Aboriginal/ABC Education resources booklet for NAIDOC week, which finished July 14. It’s titled, Keep the fire burning! Blak (sic), loud and proud.
Anderson tells us that his ABC is official media partner for NAIDOC 2024 – the partnership launched at last year’s NAIDOC.[1] Its Committee Co-Chair Aunty (Dr) Lynette Riley AO had asked him to support the creation of the NAIDOC education resource “under her supervision” and he was “delighted to accept” (I thought the ABC is independent?)[2] The ABC, he says, drew on expert educators from Culture is Life, an…
The proportions of Aboriginal children and young people placed in a relative or kin placement or with an Aboriginal foster carer have decreased, and the proportion of Aboriginal children who were reunified with their families has declined.
Sep 09 2024
17 mins
If we imagine a metric called the Pinocchio Scale, which measures the number of lies told by a politician as a percentage of his or her overall public statements, our current prime minister (for want of a better description), Airbus Albo, has moved well into uncharted territory.
Sep 06 2024
5 mins
