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Craig Foster
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AM LLB Co-Chair, Australian Republic Movement • Aust Multicultural Council • 2023 NSW AOTY • Adjunct Professor, Sport & Social Responsibility
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BREAKING NEWS - Erling Haaland and Sam Kerr are this year’s Footballer of the Year and Women's Footballer of the Year. Congratulations to the
@ManCity and @ChelseaFCW
players. More to follow, full details on our website: footballwriters.co.uk/?p=9194 #FOTY75
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👏 Co-Chair of the Australian Republic Movement Nova Peris has made a stand for justice, calling for King Charles to make "a formal apology and for a process of reparatory justice to commence".
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. has been awarded the Football Writers’ Association Women’s Footballer of the Year!
Congratulations, Sam! 👏
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Phenomenon.
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A massive congratulations to Sam Kerr on taking out the FWA Women's Footballer of the Year!
And even better, it's for the second year running.
The first ever back to back winner.
Bring on the World Cup.
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Australia’s Third Act: Reconciled, Independent, Truly Multicultural.
Manning Clark Lecture, with a cameo from the late George Rrurrambu/Burarrwanga with his powerful solo release: ‘Wake Up, Australia’
We are George, we are.
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“Generations including my own have grown up oblivious to our own history..It whitewashed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from the pages of our shared story … It renders them all but invisible to this day.”
Precisely.
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Every Australian should be shocked and appalled by the use of extreme force against children detained in the Banksia Hill detention centre overnight.
WA Premier Mark McGowan must act immediately to ensure the needs of kids in Banksia Hill are met. 🧵
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“If we have to go over to the British Museum and get back those artefacts that belong here, I'll personally come with you.. They should be here on display for everybody to see and be proud of our history."
Yes, they should 👏
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A packed audience and online attendees gathered to discuss ‘The Case for the Republic’ at this week.
The conclusion was clear.
Whatever your feelings about the institution, the monarchy is part of our past, not our future.
#DemocracyNotMonarchy
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I’ll be up home on the Nth Cst, NSW speaking in Byron, May 26 about Australia’s future for the Gilchrist Foundation, another Lismore local.
Our identity, our important quest to come together with First Nations, our shared future as a Republic.
Join us. hristfoundation.prod.supporterhub.net/events/craigfo
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"We are entering what will be a long and inspiring journey as a country," writes .
“This requires a healing process, a process in which the Crown cannot possibly participate, other than to acknowledge its wrongdoings."
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An important film will debut at the on June 11 that explores the meaning of that which most Australians take for granted, but which we have denied others, freedom.
A film we all need to see. And the UK, having chosen a similar policy path.
#freedomisbeautiful
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The upcoming referendum for an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice is our next great rite of passage.
It will mark an important stage in the life of the nation, the coming together of an Australian peoples old and new.
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My latest on the coronation of King Charles III of Australia, 'a nauseating display of royal excess and dynastic exceptionalism'. Why an Australian republic can't come soon enough #auspol #notmyking
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“They were crazy. But crazy good for us.” Edin Dzeko reflects on those opening 11 minutes and Inter’s First Leg win 🗣️
↳ AC Milan v Inter Milan. Every Match. 4K UHD. Exclusive & Ad-free. The Home of UEFA Champions League.
#StanSportAU #UCL #ACMINT
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THE DEFENDERS.
The feature documentary of the fight by a global coalition to free refugee, Hakeem al-Araibi from a Thai prison in the face of inaction by sport and fierce opposition by Governments and royal families premieres at June 15.
On June 23
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The first leg ends level 😬 It all comes down to next week!
↳ Every Match. 4K UHD. Exclusive & Ad-free. The Home of UEFA Champions League
#StanSportAU #UCL
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It was one of the great two-legged Semi-Finals 🔥 Re-live Real Madrid & Man City's epic encounter last year.
↳ Real Madrid v Man City LIVE TOMORROW from 4:35am AEST on Stan Sport. Every Match. 4K UHD. Exclusive & Ad-free. The Home of UEFA Champions League.
#StanSportAU #UCL
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Really important conversations have begun in the past week about an Australia built on equality, merit, multiculturalism, truth and democracy.
has had a huge surge in membership. Our thanks to all our members 💛💚
We’d love to have you👇
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The push for Australia to become a republic is back in the spotlight following the buzz of King Charles's coronation on Saturday. is an ambassador for the Australian Republic Movement and joins us.
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Appropriate decision by
While respectful of those interested, aside from the spectacle, it has no meaning to most Australians.
Our commitment to equality, inclusion, merit, dictated a muted response across the nation.
And, change.
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“There is a lot of valid criticism about the way that [anti-monarchy arrests] was handled.”
Yasmin Poole, a spokesperson for the Australian Republic Movement, tells arrests of anti-monarchy protesters around the coronation is “very concerning.”
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Powerful.
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“For our voice to be heard our homelands must be strong. For our homelands to be strong our voice must be heard” | Djambawa Marawili
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Register for this Reform & Social Justice event. Emeritus Prof President will discuss the Commission's proposed model for an #AusHumanRightsAct
It's time to legally recognise that #HumanRights are for everyone, all of the time
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Join the ANU Law Reform and Social Justice program and @amnesty for a lecture on 24 May by @AusHumanRights President, Emeritus Prof @RosCroucher , who will discuss the proposed federal Human Rights Act model. Read what she has to say below and register: anulaw.info/4127zca
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Iranian people are no longer afraid of the government. A video that reached me from Isfahan shows that the police asking those holding a music concert in the street to stop playing and leave, but the people do not pay attention to the request and instead force the police to… Show more
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👏 Australians want to see change. Co-Chair Craig Foster speaks on today's Coronation and how we're looking at the British Monarchy in a more truthful manner. #DemocracyNotMonarchy #AusPol #AusRepublic
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Petition update · Victory: AFL bans supporters for life for racially abusing players
Outstanding and Nicky Winmar 👏
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At the coronation, the Archbishop of Canterbury will “call upon all persons of goodwill...to make their homage, in heart and voice, to their undoubted King, defender of all”.
It’s embarrassing, writes . A true democracy demands the opposite.
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The majority of Australians have no interest in the coronation & want self-governance & an Australian Head of State.
Could this be the final indignity?
Join us as a member, and let’s get to work on an Australian-led future at:
republic.org.au/join
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Well said Helen.
‘Rituals like the proposed oath are not intended to be neutral in their effect..
We should be affirming our democracy, celebrating our democratic system, not going along with rituals that symbolise the opposite.’
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ARM Co-Chair & I have written to Charles inviting him to enter into a relationship of equals with all Australians & join us on the path to self-governance & full independence.
We also invite him to Australia.
With appropriate terms, of course.
#DemocracyNotMonarchy
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Will be thinking about Father Robert (Bob) John Maguire AM RFD today as he’s laid to rest in a State Funeral Service in Melb.
One of the good guys, always prepared to assist anyone in need, he contributed to a more compassionate Australia.
#RIP old mate.
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First Nations, Indigenous leaders, anti-slavery and advocacy groups of 12 countries with Charles as Head of State have called for historical accountability for the Crown’s actions.
International press conference 9am AEST.
Link: us02web.zoom.us/j/89446503372?
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👏 LET'S START THE PROCESS. Co-Chair of the Australian Republic Movement Nova Peris has made a stand for justice, calling for King Charles to make "a formal apology and for a process of reparatory justice to commence".
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Australia is confronting the truth of our history and walking a path of historical justice and restoration of dignity to First Nations peoples as equals.
So too, must the Crown acknowledge its historical debts.
Petition below.
#DemocracyNotMonarchy
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On the occasion of his coronation, organisations & leaders from 12 countries with Charles as Head of State call for:
• formal apology for historical injustices; reparations; return of remains & artefacts.
The Crown must confront its historical legacy.
#DemocracyNotMonarchy
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