Australians obsess about overseas world leaders, but forget daily about our own treatment of refugees & migrants - Tampa crisis involving refugees was found to be staged by Government, but still led to legislation excising mainland from migration zonehttp://theconversation.com/out-of-sight-out-of-mind-excising-australia-from-the-migration-zone-14387?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitterbutton …
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- One Nation met with NRA seeking $20m in funding in exchange for loosening firearm restrictions. Despite this, they're still in office. Pauline Hanson began her political career in 1994 & joined ON in 1997. Hatred of migrants keeps them in power 22 yrs+ https://www.aljazeera.com/investigations/howtosellamassacre/ …
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One of the many reasons why racism thrives is because we refuse to examine systemic racism (incl. our history of genocide & dispossession of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people) We're shocked by overseas tyrants, but allow our politicians & pundits to spread lies & fear
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It's easier to look elsewhere and think racism causes mass violence *over there,* while tolerating violence & hate speech every day *right here.*
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