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materialworld:

We request the refunding for critical support services and counselling for criminalised women pre and post release prison in North Queensland by the LNP who cut the funding last week.

Why is this important? Criminalised women have the highest rate of sexual and physical abuse perpetrated against them in our community. Due to this horrendous abuse women turn to self medication with illiiegal drugs and / or alcohol. Nearly 60% of the women have a mental illness.

In Townsville women’s prison over 80% of women are Aboriginal and over 90% of the women cannot read and write. These issues have to be addressed, so that women when released into the community can move on with their lives and not return to drug and alcohol abuse and offending to feed their addiction.

Housing is also a fundamental part of their success on release. The support of our services assists women in healing their traumas and practical needs so when released they can reconnect with their children and families and move towards their goals and being a part of their communities.

(via Save Sisters Inside | CommunityRun)

Sister’s Inside is founded and run by primarily ex-inmate women and some lawyers. It’s been an internationally recognized success model of a service that helps;

- inmate mothers and their children re-establishing or maintain functional relationships during/after imprisonment.

- improved prospects of literacy, safe accommodation and finding work on release.

Allowing how many female inmates in Qld are ATSI women being punished for defending themselves in domestic violence situations, or arrested for petty ‘offences’ related to homelessness, this being top of the list for service shut down tells you exactly where real state priorities are.

Probably not coincidentally: they host the Is Prison Obsolete? Conferences, being one of the few regional public forums about changing the overall high imprisonment of marginalized people, not just services.

Oz folk - pls. signal boost on your other networks, not many politics Oz folk on tumblr.  Non-Oz folk - ATSI = Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander. Native + Black.

Yes!
Support. My Aunty works at Sisters Inside.
Women don’t belong in cages yo! 

renoriginal:

The Dreamers Design

Creative products celebrating Aboriginal culture. The Dreamers Design is a collective of like minded Indigenous creatives, passionate about finding new ways to promote Aboriginal culture.

The First Line of Defence tee design is a collaboration between Penny Smallacombe and Jessica Johnson. It’s the beginning of a range that honours our Aboriginal warriors of the 1800 period. It is also hoped that the designs will encourage further interest in our past leaders. The designers are currently in consultation with the various communities to seek permission to use these warriors names.

Check out the Dreamers Design website and facebook.

This is too awesome for words. I’m ordering one soon.

dirtydreamnumbertwo:

Steve Jampijinpa, a man from Warlpiri nation explains the five pillars of Aboriginal culture.

Terra Nullius? I think not.

BAM 

Take that all you people who think that Aboriginal peoples had no structure or lore. 

I sent around an email to all the people who work in my building about the anniversary of the Apology to Indigenous Australians and their families who were removed from their parents and culture.

I must have shaken up some supporters. Found this in the youth drop in space when I got back to work this week.

Also have booked in some Indigenous theatre performances later in the year. These mob gunna respect by the time this lil whitey is through.

In other news, Babes (aka tights as pants) asked me what anal beads are for. BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA had to explain why butt play is fun and pleasurable. My influence is everywhere!

stop smiling: Saw these responses to i-like-physics' question to thesavagesalad (aka person believes racism is over in Australia)

thesavagesalad:

photonsandfrisbees:

thesavagesalad:

TW: talks on racism, use of racist speech, talks of genocide, apologist nonsense

photonsandfrisbees:

ayiman said: HOLY. FUCK. Is this like, an accurate picture of white Australians? Indigenous people in…

I am not a typical Non-Indigneous Australian. THANK FUCK.
What a racist arsehole. 

Great logic to rebut all those dumb racist arguments.

Respect to all Australian Indigenous peoples on this Invasion Day.

Terra Nullius was bullshit.

Check this awesome interactive map of Indigenous languages

The ramblings of that girl called Ebs: Today is Australia Day

ramblinggirle:

In theory it is a time of celebration for Australians. A time to reflect upon the great country that we are all members of and how far we have come in such a small period of time.

I guess I say in theory because let’s be honest, Australia day for most Australians is an excuse to get a day off…

The great debate that no one's talking about

Marijuana is by far the most popular drug: more than 7 million Australians have tried it at some point in their lifetime. Ecstasy is our number-two drug of choice: 2 million of us have given it a go and another half a million of us have used the dance drugs GHB and ketamine. By the time Australians turn 20, 37 per cent of us have already tried illicit drugs and that figure rises to a shade less than 60 per cent by the time we turn 40. That’s mainstream.

When are we going to really start talking about drug use Australia?

And that drugs are FUN and harm reduction works!

A great intro to what is sex trafficking,
the legal parameters and history around sex work and sex trafficking,
why sex workers are key to the Australian and global HIV response and
the current treatment of sex workers in ‘rescue centres’ in Thailand and other SE Asian countries.

Watch, absorb and question if the current political and social responses to trafficking is justified and values the voices of sex workers.

Elena Jeffreys from the Scarlet Alliance addressed a meeting of the Australian Sex Party.
This is the address by Elena Jeffreys and responds to some of the issues raised in the Four Corners program “Sex Slavery” broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on 6th. October 2011.

References:

http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2011/10/06/3333668.htm
http://www.sexparty.org.au/

Andrew is a former Police Detective Sergeant specialising in child protection and the adult industry and a former Chief Investigator at NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) and stood for election to the NSW Parliament in the March 2011 elections in the seat of Sydney.

curlysiren:

lemondifficult:

fishfishheadfish:

Hey America.

Nice possum. Shit possum.

Our possum could kick your possum’s ass.

#LOOK AT THAT VICIOUS FUCKING ANIMAL RIGHT THERE

This animal’s main form of defense is hissing followed by playing dead; after which they’re out of commission from about 40 minutes to 4 hours.

To be fair, though, our opossums can actually be quite cute.  They’re like the ugly stepchildren of the marsupial world.  Creepy little gremlins.  I love them.

FUCK YEAH POSSUMS!

One more reason I have to hate on America. Not that I really have any sense of national pride.

(via prettywar)