Mick Gooda

@MickGooda

Retired now but just finished on the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory.

South East Queensland
Joined February 2012

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  1. If you want to work out what’s all wrong in Townsville just listen to this. Who does she think she is ‘putting charities on the mat’ for doing what charities do, assisting the most disadvantaged in our society.

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  2. There was a time when the AFL led the world in taking on racism in sport. And here we are, the treatment of Adam Goodes laid bare for all to see. The leadership failed Adam and an apology is not enough, heads should roll and give someone who cares a go.

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    It is absolutely valid to raise other cases where there are equally tragic outcomes in seemingly similar circumstances but the treatment of one is off the planet compared to the other.

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    So let me get this right, bottom line is that Labor still supports the healthy welfare card. Why?

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  5. This treatment, if true, is what makes up sick and contributes to us dying early. Seems like the Accor approach is one of wilful blindness. Get up there and investigate and if true heads should roll.

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    I’m a former care kid. Changing the label from being “in care” to adoption is not a panacea. It will not provide the magic “permanency” that govt would have you believe. It is a way to break up families, fudge numbers & perpetuate trauma. The system didn’t save me. I did 🖤💛❤️

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  7. So great to be at the Murri School Year 12 Graduation tonight with our Local Member and first Queenslander Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Minister, the fabulous Leanne Enoch

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  8. I’m at the Brisbane Bayside State College with Katie Kiss for her son Malachi’s graduation. He joins 3,600 other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students who attend public and non-government schools across Queensland will graduate from high school. Queenslaaaaander

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    Scott Morrion's very close friend, Brian Houston of Hillsong infamy, blamed a 9yo boy for his sexual abuse at the hands of Brian's father. Houston claimed the 9yo 'came on' to his father.

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    Josh Frydenberg has taken your advice, and re-done his awkward video

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    Who cuts funding to Foodbank in half just before Christmas when more Australians than ever will be going hungry? does. That’s who.

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  12. You know you are on Thursday Island when you see signs like this. Love it!

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    Honestly, this has been the sentiments of so many blackfullas I’ve interacted with on social media today. We r not ok. This country is not ok.

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  16. 6. A South Australian James Howe, said: ‘I think the cry throughout Australia will be that our first duty is to ourselves, and that we should as far as possible make Australia home for Australians and the British race alone.’

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  17. 5. Australia’s first chief justice, Samuel Griffith, explained: What I have had more particularly in my own mind was the immigration of coolies from British India, or any eastern people subject to civilised powers.

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  18. 4. John Forrest from WA said that ‘It is of no use for us to shut our eyes to the fact that there is a great feeling all over Australia against the introduction of coloured persons. It goes without saying that we do not like to talk about it but still it is so.’

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  19. 3. Edmund Barton, the first prime minister said that the race power was necessary, so that ‘the moment the Commonwealth obtains any legislative power at all it should have the power to regulate the affairs of the people of coloured or inferior races who are in the Commonwealth’.

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  20. 2. In the debates at the Constitutional Convention to establish the Constitution these were some of the comments about section 51(26) better known at the ‘race power’.

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