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But using a nation platform to humiliate such an operation is bullying. I guess a bit of manufactured outrage works well as click bait.

Censorship of frontier conflict is not from volunteers or small outfits. The state institutions publishing nothing online or otherwise seems blatant censorship IMO

06.08.2025 04:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So if it’s impossible how is it β€œcensorship”, the next sentence admits it’s cost prohibitive btw…An 80 yo,not for profit business, publishing niche books for local libraries and researchers not bookshops. It’s not UWA Press or Fremantle Arts. Poor editorial decisions are not censorship.

06.08.2025 04:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Jobs for the boys’? Labor slashes wait times for ex-MPs to join WA government boards Previously, a member of a state government board or committee was ineligible for remuneration if they were a member of parliament within the last 12 months.

I can’t see corruption πŸ˜†
β€œThe change drew accusations of β€œjobs for mates” from across the aisle, with a string of former colleagues and one-term MPs elected under Mark McGowan being appointed to powerful, influential or lucrative roles.β€œ

www.watoday.com.au/national/wes...

06.08.2025 04:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Who is pretending it’s impossible? Cost prohibitive, yes.

Yes it is a form of censorship and cultural institutions steering away from controversial topics is also. Difference being that’s the role of an institutions publication program but not necessarily a micro not for profit publisher

04.08.2025 07:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
WA history | State Library of Western Australia

All cultural institutions have had budgets for digitalisation since late 90s (not enough) so choices are made, those choices are a form of censorship.

SLWA chooses to publish this online. Don MacCleod? Pilbara strike only thing close slwa.wa.gov.au/stories/wa-h...

04.08.2025 06:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s copyright free, go ahead and reproduce it yourself

04.08.2025 02:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

highlights how much you have missed the real censorship story.

Why didn’t the state library publish it online like so many other artefacts? Again a small unprofitable press making a poor decision is not censorship

04.08.2025 02:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

No I have no relationship at all but have been involved in cultural institutions for decades. I know Hisperians whole reason for its existence is because the museums and libraries were not providing access to their holdings.

Not only an unnecessary swipe to the main information, it’s triviality
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04.08.2025 02:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Were there financial restraints? Do your article based on others research but don’t malign a small NFP. Isn’t the real censorship question about why the state library, museum or media didn’t bother to reproduce the diary and code online or in print over the last decades? Who is getting a free pass?

04.08.2025 01:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Totally unnecessary punching down. Story is fine better include more @kateauty.bsky.social or Owen knowledge than your judgment. God help us when the media becomes an arbiter of censorship. Petty at best and considering all the other censorship that operates through official channels it’s laughable

04.08.2025 01:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There is a story of censorship of history in WA but it’s not Hisperian Press. It is the media, government, government inquiries, police policies, institutions and commercial interests. It’s multifaceted and requires effort to unpack.

04.08.2025 01:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It also wastes time and energy by ignoring real censorship which operated through Royal Commissions (like Canning route RC transcripts reproduced by Hisperian) or Forrest River Massacre court and Inquiries, Ugle Inquiry set up by the government of the day…knock yourself out covering real censorship

04.08.2025 00:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Any chance of touching on Mary Kostakidis case?

04.08.2025 00:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You’re not a qualified historian? Yeah sure, a small NFP press run out of backyard is β€˜censoring history’ not government or institutions? This is laughable except it wastes time of the trivial rather than a big picture and the violence which actually occurred documented and ignored by today’s media

04.08.2025 00:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Dark deeds in a sunny land: or Blacks and whites in North-West Australia The frontier of European settlement in the colony of Western Australia a hundred years ago stretched way beyond the south-western corner to the far north, and pastoralists were pushing steadily inland...

A gripe against one book is a disproportionate response and unbalanced. A response which the Guardian only occasionally touches upon. There are lots of source material for frontier violence, perhaps report on those publications rather than slagging of a NFP press ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworks/7230/

04.08.2025 00:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Punching down on Hisperian Press. Seriously? Not WA Museum or the old history departments at Universities over here, government funding policies … Hisperian Press does a fantastic job at reproducing original source material which is invaluable to historians.

Perhaps speak to Professors at UWA etc

04.08.2025 00:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s a different legal system. Not everything revolves around the USA.

03.08.2025 23:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Australian protesters β€˜outraged’ over Israel’s war on Gaza, government’s β€˜complicity’: Analysis
Australian protesters β€˜outraged’ over Israel’s war on Gaza, government’s β€˜complicity’: Analysis YouTube video by Al Jazeera English

www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_B_...

03.08.2025 11:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A lady is walking along the street holding a large banner which says;
Australian Jews Say Sanction Israel.

A lady is walking along the street holding a large banner which says; Australian Jews Say Sanction Israel.

Thousands took to the streets of Melbourne too in solidarity with the people of #Gaza.

(πŸ“Έ Shazl Harro)

03.08.2025 10:58 πŸ‘ 239 πŸ” 47 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3

β€œAlong with the horror at what’s happening in Gaza, there was also a palpable sense of anger towards Minns and, to a lesser extent, the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, over Australia’s fence-sitting.”

Not fence sitting, his government is supplying military material, supporting US policy

03.08.2025 10:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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NEW: Incredible scenes in Sydney, Australia today as tens of thousands march for Gaza, demanding an end to the genocide.

#MarchForHumanity

(πŸŽ₯ Ema Franklin)

03.08.2025 10:50 πŸ‘ 1532 πŸ” 529 πŸ’¬ 41 πŸ“Œ 40

There are more suppositories of wisdom that could be included in his eulogy

03.08.2025 09:20 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Obituary should add George Pell was his moral compass, and in his spare time wrote a character reference for convicted paedophile priest and unsuccessfully shirt fronted Putin.

03.08.2025 09:17 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Thousands march across Sydney Harbour Bridge in support for Palestinians in Gaza
Thousands march across Sydney Harbour Bridge in support for Palestinians in Gaza YouTube video by Associated Press

AP:"Thousands of demonstrators marched across the Sydney Harbour Bridge on Sunday in support of Palestinians. The bridge was closed to traffic for longer than expected after the group changed its route."
Get your facts right AP - the protestors did not change
1/...
#auspol
youtu.be/t1kOkose1_k?...

03.08.2025 08:40 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Sydney Harbour Bridge: Tens of thousands turn out for pro-Palestine march The Sydney Harbour Bridge was closed by the march, after it was authorised to go ahead by the Supreme Court hours earlier.

Showing the world what Australia stands for. The Australian government doesn’t represent Australian values www.bbc.com/news/article...

03.08.2025 08:34 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sue Higginson MLA too

03.08.2025 05:03 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Aerial shot of Gaza City, burned and bombed into burned and shattered, unliveable wreckage as far as can be seen.

Aerial shot of Gaza City, burned and bombed into burned and shattered, unliveable wreckage as far as can be seen.

Whole area that used to be houses, shops, public transport routes, made into rubble and blackened, unliveable ruins. Aerial shot shows vast area entirely obliterated as habitable, attacked again and again by Israeli forces.

Whole area that used to be houses, shops, public transport routes, made into rubble and blackened, unliveable ruins. Aerial shot shows vast area entirely obliterated as habitable, attacked again and again by Israeli forces.

Several wrecked Gaza schools, shown from the air, pulverised by Israel's forces: windows all gaping, bombed out and covered in ash and dust. Some people are trying to live in makeshift camps amid the destruction, in former quadrangles and bomb sites.

Several wrecked Gaza schools, shown from the air, pulverised by Israel's forces: windows all gaping, bombed out and covered in ash and dust. Some people are trying to live in makeshift camps amid the destruction, in former quadrangles and bomb sites.

Aerial shots of neighbourhoods with destroyed apartment buildings, houses, offices and shops, all bombed by Israel's government. Starving people are trying to live in tents and makeshift cubbies on the former roundabouts on a main road.

Aerial shots of neighbourhoods with destroyed apartment buildings, houses, offices and shops, all bombed by Israel's government. Starving people are trying to live in tents and makeshift cubbies on the former roundabouts on a main road.

This what Israel has done to Gaza. Forbidden pics by a Washington Post photographer whose Jordanian air crew didn't pass on Israel's order to only photograph aid being dropped. City, suburbs, schools, people: bombed to rubble. People being starved in makeshift camps on road roundabouts. #Genocide

03.08.2025 04:31 πŸ‘ 608 πŸ” 436 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 15
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'They are using their power to destroy us': Elder’s urgent appeal to PM Warlpiri elder Ned Jampijinpa Hargraves joins growing calls for federal intervention into law and justice policies in the Northern Territory.

Hey @albomp.bsky.social gonna do anything? β€œUncle Ned Jampijinpa Hargraves has penned a letter to the prime minister demanding urgent intervention in the Northern Territory's youth justice system.”
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

03.08.2025 04:54 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And when you’ve fvcked off Tony, go and fvck off some more

03.08.2025 04:30 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Darn, these activist judges! Mabo was thirty years ago. He’s got nothing to contribute

03.08.2025 04:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0