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That's the end of my time at #ANTIDOTE festival of ideas, art, and change!
I'm off to get some late lunch and enjoy the beautiful weather here at Tubowghule.
Thanks to all the speakers today. Apologies if I misquoted you, it's been a long time since I livetweeted 😁
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When giving Acknowledgement of Country, don't say "before we begin..."
"The invitation for everyone else is to listen, hear, and respond. So Acknowledgement isn't performative or an add-on" Jason Glanville #ANTIDOTE
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"The campaign will need mass mobilization."
"Don't wait to be invited. This is your constitution, if you're non-Indigenous." Jason Glanville
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"Adaptation and creativity are critical to who we are. I wonder if non-Aboriginal people are afraid of the chaos? We want to share our generosity and wisdom, how do we increase capacity to deal with tumult?" ~Jason Glanville #ANTIDOTE
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What is the work of non-Indigenous Australians?
"I see this opportunity as hopeful, as a reset. That the generosity this place - you call it Australia - emulates the generosity of our people." ~
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The people whose land was taken, who then worked to build up the British empire, were not paid.
"In the constitution, we don't have control over our own affairs."
The promise of the voice to parliament is related to the history of trade union movement. #ANTIDOTE
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Now relating story of stolen wages: Aboriginal stopmen in the NT were employed by the pastoralists. It was legal to pay Aboriginal people less. They went on strike for 8 years.
The response of the pastoralists was not equal pay, but to sack them all. #ANTIDOTE
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How do we get Australians to really listen?
"It's not one conversation. Lots of different yarns is not a problem. And weaving? We know how to weave. So the diversity in response is a good thing because we have the people with the skill, kindness, and intelligence." ~
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My last session for the day: "Where do we go from here?" with and , hosted by Glanville, discussing meaningful change for First Nations people #ANTIDOTE
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Would have loved breaks between talks, leaving early feels rude and arriving late feels ruder. Scheduled breaks also improve access. #ANTIDOTE
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How does China view Chinese Australians?
cites intimidation and harassment she has experienced and answers: "Ownership"
I suspect answer different for diaspora but I couldn't stick around to find out, once again running across ... #ANTIDOTE
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What is the future of the autocracy? "Biological reality will solve it. Xi Jinping will die. And many people are competing for influence and power because they believe in a better nation." ~Geremie R Barmé #ANTIDOTE
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Rather than asking whether Chinese people have opportunities to be political, I'm more interested in what the different forms and levels of political engagement look like #ANTIDOTE
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诤友 has been used to describe Australia's diplomatic relations approach towards China, rather than the US. #ANTIDOTE
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Linda Jaivin states we have historically said 'yes' to the US, but that we should instead be a zhengyou 諍友 (friend who tells truth) unafraid to share our knowledge and context. #ANTIDOTE
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"Australia should have multiple channels of communication open with China." Linda Jaivin describes the 'shouting' that occurs as tragedy #ANTIDOTE
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"How will Australia deal with its own sense of self and geopolitics? The public will have to face the same unresolved problems. Australia has to grow up" ~Geremie R Barmé on Australia's relationships with US, China, and our history & future #ANTIDOTE
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Discussion now on naming a panda 翡翠 and it being a code for hoping Xi Jinping dies reminds me of other censorship circumvention through wordplay, including en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu_10_
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The report on Xinjiang was released a few days ago, detailing systematic human rights violations.
"This is campaign-style governance... and it's being applied throughout [China] due to COVID." ~
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"What they've chosen, western societies find invidious." Geremie R Barmé
Certainly not the end of history for China #ANTIDOTE
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"China is convinced that Gorbachev's glasnost led to the fall of the USSR" ~Linda Jaivin on CPC approach to transparency since the 80s
(sidenote: I use CCP and CPC interchangeably with no specific connotations intended) #ANTIDOTE
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Thank you , & for a robust and empathetic discussion.
Just ran across to get to next session, "What would China do?" featuring , Geremie R. Barmé, and Linda Jaivin, hosted by .
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On MCU's Thanos: "He's not actually wrong." -
(Thanos' arguments are the way of ecofascism imo) #ANTIDOTE
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"Divest." -.
Curious to know panel's perspective on activist investment. If everyone who cares divests stock of certain companies, they are sold to people w/ worse morals, cost of capital is unaffected, and sin stock effect can lead to higher returns. #ANTIDOTE
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What's a practical step we can take? "Take care of bees!" answers
Install a solitary bee home next to native plants: lifehacker.com.au/2019/05/how-to
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Australia just passed its first piece of climate legislation.
ft.com/content/9201f8
"It's good that it happened. It's not enough. The target needs to be ramped up." ~
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The news and stories we are given are not what we need, opines . Where is the coverage of Pakistan? "As consumers, we need to demand better."
posits we have become addicted to the hero's journey.
cf. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_jour
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I'm conflicted about the narrative of "failing systems" because the systems (colonial, capitalist, imperial, etc) are succeeding at what they were designed to do. They are failed and flawed on a fundamental level, and decline and trauma is a consequence of that. #ANTIDOTE
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The pandemic is not unrelated; it's another culmination of slow and fast violence.
"I have MS. If the lights go out, I will get very ill. My friend will die quickly because her medication needs to be refrigerated." ~ on a system not designed to look after people.
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Over 3 billion animals were killed in the black Saturday fires. If we spent 10 seconds with each of those animals, barely enough to imagine their form of life, let alone their relationships, we would be sitting here for a thousand years.
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"How do we understand the level of loss [of climate trauma]?"
"I don't know if we can."
See en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scope_neg & mass numbing #ANTIDOTE
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We kick off with both & indicating that connecting with Country is grounding and good for our wellbeing (including reducing climate angst) – and that we should care for the wellbeing of non-humans #ANTIDOTE
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Quick note to - "emerging Elders" should not be added to Acknowledgements of Country. #ANTIDOTE
reconciliation.org.au/reconciliation
indigenous.unsw.edu.au/strategy/cultu
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Attending #ANTIDOTE today, a festival of ideas at . Now in session: Fatal Adaptation, featuring & , hosted by .
"How do we adapt ourselves to the toll of devastation, death and disaster, without losing our humanity?"
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