Australia's Not A Free Country

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Dictator Dan in the news again because of the crash where a young cyclist was badly injured.

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Current and former NSW Police Force officers reveal 'toxic' workplace culture, bullying and sexism
amp.abc.net.au/article/104390418

An ABC investigation uncovers allegations of bullying, sexism and a dangerous lack of support within the ranks of NSW Police, which officers say is driving hundreds of officers out of the force

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www.dadsontheair.com.au/doweignoreviolenceagainstmen/

Other Australian data shows that males make up a substantial proportion of victims of domestic violence: 26% of intimate partner homicide victims are male and 29% of victims of domestic violence notified to police are male. This is very likely an under-estimate, as men who are physically assaulted by women are less likely to report it to the police than are women assaulted by men. The relative silence of the WRD and SDA campaigns in acknowledging that males make up a significant proportion of victims of sexual crime and domestic violence raises the question of whether they are more concerned with demonising males than with preventing violence. Surely all victims of violence are entitled to support and assistance whatever their gender.

A further misleading use of data by the WRD campaign is the implication that in all instances of violence against women the perpetrator is male. While the WRD quotes the Personal Safety Australia 2005 survey to note the numbers of women who have experienced some form of violence, they neglect to mention that in one-quarter of physical assaults on women (66,500), the perpetrator was another woman

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The government say they want to censor the internet to protect free speech.

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In Māori terms, Olsen's silent siege led to a state of 'mauri noho' or slumbering life force, which leads to withdrawal from participating in society. Education Aotearoa defines the outcomes of suffering the 'dormant spirit' of mauri noho as 'loss of hope, a clouded mind, a tortured body and relationships that are disempowering and humiliating'.
www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/rugby-league/the-untold-story-of-big-o-league-legend-olsen-filipainas-battle-with-depression/J4W4IX5BJAEHQML2G7NNZAHLAU/


www.smh.com.au/sport/racism-ruined-career-nz-league-great-20060504-gdnh4p.html

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Julian Assange makes first public statement since prison release

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www.newcastle.edu.au/hippocampus/story/2022/massacre-map

The intensity of Australia’s violent colonial history cannot be ignored, documented in the first comprehensive, nation-wide mapped record of frontier massacres. Now, it’s time to learn from this truth-telling.



“This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream?”
—Marguerite Yourcenar

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