This is Victoria, Australia’s Premier Dictator Dan.
Elections
Democracy is a great thing, isn’t it? We vote in people who then control EVERY facet of life! Ronald Reagan was so right when he said the scariest words are ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help you’. Well, the New Zealand government’s announcement for mandatory disclosures of climate-related risks for financial institutions and companies has made the ‘…announcement of of climate-related risks for companies and financial institutions is arguably the New Zealand government’s most significant climate policy — even more so than the Zero Carbon Act itself.
The new policy will come into effect in 2023. It requires all banks, asset managers and insurance companies with more than NZ$1 billion in assets to disclose their climate risks, in line with the emerging global standard from the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). This is a smart move, as it ties risk disclosure to international best practice, which is likely to evolve in the coming years.
There will be a collective gulp in bank boards and company risk management departments of the roughly 200 affected entities, but initiatives such as the Aotearoa Circle Sustainable Finance Forum show a growing proportion of the financial sector understands climate risk disclosures are necessary.’https://theconversation.com/new-zealand-will-make-big-banks-insurers-and-firms-disclose-their-climate-risk-its-time-other-countries-did-too-146392?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20September%2018%202020%20-%201734816775&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20September%2018%202020%20-%201734816775+CID_c9dc693f625461c59b2990e0c47ab6cb&utm_source=campaign_monitor&utm_term=New%20Zealand%20will%20make%20big%20banks%20insurers%20and%20firms%20disclose%20their%20climate%20risk%20Its%20time%20other%20countries%20did%20too
This is total Lunacy by one of the Wests most Left leaning, Looney, Lovies elected democracies.
The following article is from the Leftist Loony Marxist Lovie The Conversation. This article is supposed to tell us about real scientists supporting ‘where am I’ Joe Biden because President Trump doesn’t believe in ‘real’ science. Oh, before reading the article these are the same real scientists that believe in macro-evolution, climate change, communism/Marxism and fairies.
‘In an unprecedented step, prestigious science publication Scientific American has launched a scathing attack on President Donald Trump and endorsed his opponent, Democratic candidate Joe Biden, in the upcoming US election. It’s the first presidential endorsement in the magazine’s 175-year history.
To this, we say: about bloody time! As we’ve noted before:
Science is political. The science we do is inherently shaped by the funding landscape of government and the problems and issues of society. This means that to have any influence on how science is organised and funded in Australia (or the US or any other country), we as scientists and science communicators must act in ways that matter in the arena of politics.
It’s now more critical than ever, as the editors at Scientific American clearly lay out, that the people who are actually knowledgeable about the world’s crises speak out and represent that knowledge (or “collective wisdom”) in public, out loud and with their names attached.
Under Trump, science isn’t just ignored. It is lampooned and directly attacked, especially on issues such as climate change and the coronavirus pandemic. This actively threatens the lives (and livelihoods) of not just millions of Americans, but countless others around the world.’ If you wish to read more of this moronic Leftist Loony trash you may at https://theconversation.com/science-is-political-scientific-american-has-endorsed-joe-biden-over-trump-for-president-australia-should-take-note-146394?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20September%2018%202020%20-%201734816775&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20September%2018%202020%20-%201734816775+CID_c9dc693f625461c59b2990e0c47ab6cb&utm_source=campaign_monitor&utm_term=Science%20is%20political%20Scientific%20American%20has%20endorsed%20Joe%20Biden%20over%20Trump%20for%20president%20Australia%20should%20take%20note
We have a daughter living in Tennessee and have enjoyed many trips there to visit but ‘Tennessee is rapidly becoming a Marxist political fantasy come true. In a super RED state like Tennessee which too often is undeserving of being described as “conservative”, Marxist-backed candidates are winning their political races.
Candidates don’t call themselves Marxists. Instead they use labels like “socialist” or “progressive” to camouflage their desired outcomes, which align with the openly radical left.
Jonah Goldberg summarizes it this way in Liberal Fascism – “In Italy they were called Fascists. In Germany they were called National Socialists. [later renamed Nazis] In America we call them progressives…”
Marxism provides the theoretical framework for communism and socialism – political systems which centralize power, suppress opposition and exert control over the masses using economic, social and psychological means.
There are many Marxist groups operating in Tennessee. They all act as electoral fronts with the same objectives and goals, such as the organization, Liberation Road – to fill seats in local elections with like-minded comrades, a sweet feat in a Trump state.
Liberation Road, Our Revolution, Nashville Justice League, Memphis for All, and the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) to name a few, work in concert to get their candidates elected. They refer to each other as “comrade” as affirmation of solidarity with a Marxist movement to overthrow ordered government.
Student groups like the Vanderbilt Young Democratic Socialists of America and the UT Knoxville Progressive Student Alliance (which has nothing to do with being “progressive”), are becoming more engaged in local elections helping to provide boots on the ground to canvass and man phone-banks.
At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter what they call themselves – it’s what they seek to accomplish that matters. The groups discussed below work in concert with each other, creating the “new political ‘us’” laid out in Liberation Road’s 2019 – 2022 strategy, which is an agreement to form strategic alliances to defeat their enemies – the United States Government, the Republican Party and establishment Democrats.
The bottom line for these groups – if you don’t support creating a totalitarian socialist/communist America complete with the economy killing Green New Deal, Medicare for All, abortion on demand and open borders to name a few, you are their enemy.
Our Revolution (OR) – federal and state elections
Our Revolution (OR) and the Democrat Socialists of America (DSA) often collaborate to help fellow comrades win elections. The senior electoral manager of OR who was also the former deputy director of the DSA has disclosed that nothing prevents the forming of a two-sided DSA/OR local chapters. In a 2017 interview, OR cited Knoxville’s OR chapter which helped elect two DSA candidates to the city council.
OR is very active in Tennessee. It has a Nashville/Mid TN chapter and one in Memphis called Memphis for All.
In 2019, OR’s 6 endorsed candidates all won their races for the Metro Nashville City Council. Two winners along with another Metro Council member served as Bernie Sanders’ Tennessee 2020 presidential campaign co-chairs.
Our Revolution began as the 501(c)(4) arm of the failed 2016 Bernie Sanders presidential campaign. It now joins the mix of revolutionary change agents working to “grow the squad” and get more of their “progressive” radicals like Jew-haters Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib elected to public office. OR is also responsible for helping Ocasio-Cortez get elected.
In 2020, OR endorsed Nashville’s Keeda Haynes who lost her primary race for U.S. House of Representatives against 30-year incumbent Democrat Jim Cooper. But Tennesseans should not lose sight of the fact that Haynes took 44% of the vote.
OR also endorsed first-timer and BLM protest leader, Cori Bush in Missouri, who won her primary for Congress, ousting a 20-year incumbent. Bush’s campaign includes defunding the police which is part of OR’s “progressive” platform to “defend democracy.”
OR did not endorse first timer from Memphis, Marquita Bradshaw in the Tennessee Democratic primary for Lamar Alexander’s seat. After winning her primary, OR support for Bradshaw is now coming in the form of Cori Bush’s endorsement who herself was endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).
Bradshaw campaigned as an environmental activist who was also an experienced labor organizer. She was first endorsed by the DSA. Her platform is based on The Justice Guarantee, (you have to read the 6 planks to believe it), which is supported by the Sunrise Movement and many other radical left wing groups including the ACLU. The Justice Guarantee platform is a project of Tides Advocacy which according to Capital Research, runs the Fund for Fair and Just Policing campaign funded by George Soros.
After winning the primary in Tennessee, Our Revolution’s Nashville & Mid TN chapter, Nashville Musicians For Change, Memphis-Midsouth DSA, Sunrise Tennessee, Vanderbilt Young Democratic Socialists of America, & Indivisible Tennessee joined together to endorse Bradshaw and are working to get her elected to flip Lamar Alexander’s seat.
The joinder of these groups follows the formula promoted by Liberation Road.
Our Revolution’s Nashville candidate James Turner for the Tennessee House, lost his primary to long-time incumbent Rep. Mike Stewart. But OR’s Memphis for All candidates fared much better. Gabby Salinas and Torrey Harris won their primaries, while Jerri Green and Andrea Bond-Johnson had no opponents in the Democrat primary. They will each face incumbent Republicans except for Harris who will be challenged by 26-year incumbent Rep. John DeBerry who is running as an independent after being kicked out of the Democrat party for being too conservative.
Memphis for All and OR’s Nashville and Mid-TN chapter, are part of Liberation Road. Thomas Wayne Walker, a member of Liberation Road’s National Executive Committee is also a Memphis for All Steering Committee member.
In 2018, Memphis for All endorsed and helped get former state senator Lee Harris elected for Shelby County Mayor. The group also added two county commissioners, Tami Sawyer and Racquel Collins. Sawyer, is a Black Lives Matter Leader and organizer of taking down Confederate statutes in Memphis.
The following year, Sawyer ran unsuccessfully for mayor of Memphis with support from Memphis for All and Marxist fellow traveller Highlander co-director Ash-Lee Henderson.
Memphis for All also endorsed and helped elect Katrina Robinson for state Senate and London Lamar for the Tennessee House. Liberation Road volunteers were noted to have helped Memphis for All canvassing in these districts.
In early August 2020, Sen. Katrina Robinson was indicted on 48 counts of theft and embezzlement of federal program grant funds.
Memphis Liberation Party
This newly formed group endorsed Marquita Bradshaw and is working to help her get elected. This group identifies itself as a “political party fighting for workers’ rights, environmental justice, and self-determination for the people of Memphis” and is promoting a comprehensive platform of demands to “liberate Memphis” from the State of Tennessee.
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
Knoxville’s DSA is an affiliate chapter of Our Revolution and has successfully helped three of their comrades get elected to the Knoxville city council running on platforms that reject capitalism in favor of supporting “working class interests.”
Seema Singh Perez was the first Knoxville DSA member to win a seat on the city council in 2017.
This DSA chapter is running the “City Council Movement” and two years later, the chapter endorsed three comrades for the council – Amelia Parker, David Hayes and Charles al-Bawi. Amelia Parker won an at-large seat.
In 2018, Knoxville DSA member Edward Nelson, endorsed by Our Revolution for a Tennessee House seat lost to the Republican candidate.
Anti-police Sean Parker in Nashville (no relation to Amelia other than in comradeship), is the co-founder of the Middle TN DSA, a fact he proudly shared on his campaign page. He was elected in 2019, to represent District 5 (hipster East Nashville neighborhoods), on the Metro Nashville City Council.
Chattanooga’s DSA chapter is just getting started by issuing a “list of demands on local government and business leaders to alleviate the effects of the COVID-19 crisis on the working and vulnerable people of greater Chattanooga.”
Highlander co-director Ash-Lee Henderson has deep agitator roots in Chattanooga. In 2012 she was an organizer with United Campus Workers, an organization that the college DSA chapters attach to.
She was also a Board member of Chattanooga Organized for Action (COA).
In 2014, working as an organizer for Concerned Citizens for Justice (CCJ) in Chattanooga, Ash-Lee was arrested while marching against alleged police brutality. That same year, Ash-Lee marched again with CCJ to affirm organization’s solidarity with Palestinians.
Don’t be surprised when Chattanooga Marxists start catching up to their comrades in Nashville, Knoxville and Memphis.
Nashville Justice League (NJL) whose tagline is “A New Power is Rising” helped 13 “progressive” far-left radicals get elected to the Metro Nashville city Council.
Shortly before the August 2019 election for the Nashville Metro Council, three organizations came together to form the Nashville Justice League (NJL), a PAC whose goal was to move the city council further left. Of the 15 endorsed candidates, 13 won their races.
Well into 2020, the NJL candidates have proven to be the “progressive” far-left radicals the PAC wanted.
The three organizations which organized the NJL are:
TIRRC Votes is the 501(c)(4) arm of the Soros-funded TN Immigrant & Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC), which advocates for illegal aliens and legal immigrants such as refugees. TIRRC began its collaboration with BLM in 2015; this was during the time that TIRRC’s board was led by Daoud Abudiab, a Muslim activist.
The Equity Alliance Action Fund which is the 501(c)(4) of the Equity Alliance. Founded in 2016, The Equity Alliance, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, employs state-wide and community organizers, communications and operational managers along with two co-executive directors. This group organizes around issues of alleged police brutality, equity for people of color, and like every other far left group, maintains a 501(c)(4) arm which is working to vote Trump out of office and elect progressive socialists.
The Central Labor Council of Nashville & Middle TN (AFL-CIO) – Jobs With Justice has a chapter in East and Middle TN and is part of the Central Labor Council. Jobs With Justice lists the Highlander Center as one of their partners. The Council endorsed state Rep. John Ray Clemmons in the 2019 Nashville mayoral race. Clemmons is a fellow traveler of the radical left and is running unopposed for a fourth term.
The Nashville Justice League was recognized as an ally in Liberation Road’s July 2019 newsletter:
“The Nashville Justice League launched at the end of June to bring together the strategic alliance into the electoral field. This IPO Project is a new PAC, and a joint project with the Central Labor Council, the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition, and the Equity Alliance, a civil rights and civic engagement organization run by black millennial women. We are using voting pledges, social media advertising, and canvassing to break down the silos of our membership and combine our strengths to get true champions of justice elected. We are currently focusing on Nashville metro elections, but have our eyes set on combining the IPO city-based projects for 2020.”
Given the NJL’s core mission there is no surprise about the candidates they endorsed.
For example, Bob Mendes and Colby Sledge were the council members who in 2017, introduced two bills that if passed, would have made Nashville the most liberal sanctuary city in the country. Sledge is married to Lindsey Harris who until very recently, was a co-director of TIRRC.
The NJL also endorsed Zulfat Suara who openly admitted to being a socialist. She resigned her leadership of the TN American Muslim Advisory Council (AMAC) to run for the Metro Council. Under her leadership, AMAC board members began agitating against alleged police brutality. From the comfort of her new $650,000 home, Suara served as one of Bernie Sanders’ three Tennessee campaign co-chairs. Suara led her activist AMAC board to join forces with Linda Sarsour, a defender of Sharia law and intensely vocal anti-Semite, who served as “Bernie Sanders’s Anti-Semitic Surrogate”. More recently, Suara was chosen as a PLEO (party leader and elected official) delegate to the DNC. She nominated Bernie Sanders and voted “no” on the DNC platform because of the absence of Medicare for all and, following the lead of Jew-haters Sarsour, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, the absence of “stronger foreign policy language, especially on Israel and Palestine.”
Kyontze Toombs, who serves as Secretary and General Counsel for the Equity Alliance was endorsed and won her Metro Council race so they now have a front row seat at the table.
Gicola Lane, another NJL endorsed, but losing candidate, was paid by Black Voters Matter as a campaign coordinator in getting the anti-police Community Oversight Board on the ballot and passed. This year she is an electoral justice fellow with the Movement for Black Lives, the policy setting umbrella organization which Highlander Center’s co-director Ash-Lee Henderson, helps lead.
Ringleader TIRRC has a long-established relationship with the Highlander Center which they list as a coalition member. Beginning in 2007, Highlander provided Justice School for TIRRC with “sessions combin[ing] nuts-and-bolts training on organizing and leadership skills with broader discussions of social, political, and economic issues related to immigration and the immigrant rights movement.”
Vanderbilt sociology professor Dan Cornfield and his wife Hedy Weinberg the TN-ACLU director who has also served on TIRRC’s Advisory Board, have been long-time supporters of the Highlander Center.
Cornfield co-led Highlander trainings for Vanderbilt college students and faculty organized by Vanderbilt’s Office of Active Citizenship with “programs such as ‘More Radical Than Communism’ and on ‘Becoming a Change Agent.’”
Our Revolution joined forces with TIRRC Votes in July 2019.
Sunrise Movement
Sunrise is a movement to stop climate change. Their platform includes pushing for more regulations and government control of the economy under the guise of fighting climate change. They are mainly college, high school and middle school students who have been inducted into world of the socialist/progressive platform.
They call their chapters “hubs” and have hubs in Nashville, Franklin and Knoxville. According to the Memphis Progressive Student Alliance, there will soon be a Sunrise hub in Memphis.
Sunrise Tennessee joined with Our Revolution’s Nashville & Mid TN chapter, Nashville Musicians For Change, Memphis-Midsouth DSA, Vanderbilt Young Democratic Socialists of America, & Indivisible Tennessee, to endorse U.S. Senate Democratic candidate Marquita Bradshaw.
The leader of the Nashville Sunrise Movement is Rick Herron, believed to be the son of Roy Herron, former chair of the Tennessee Democratic Party. Roy Herron served in the Tennessee House and Senate.
Party for Socialism & Liberation
The Party for Socialism and Liberation has been active working outreach to like-minded minority communities in Nashville and held an event at the Islamic Center of Tennessee.
UTKnoxville Progressive Student Alliance (UTKPSA) has close ties to both the Highlander Center and Liberation Road. The UTKPSA has become active in local Knoxville elections, endorsing Charles al-Bawi in 2019 for the Knoxville City Council.
Here’s an example of how these Marxist organizations work together. Thomas Wayne Walker, a Memphis agitator, is a member of Liberation Road’s National Executive Committee. During his tenure as an executive board member of the United Campus Workers (UCW) movement in Tennessee, he engaged the UTKPSA in a campus protest. At the time, Ash-Lee Henderson was an organizer for the UCW. Several years prior, Ash-Lee and Walker were together at a public option rally in Nashville.
Coming full circle, Ash-Lee, who is also connected to Liberation Road, is currently the co-director of the Highlander Center whose staff members Coy Wakefield (also a BLM organizer in Knoxville), and Andre Canty interface with students at UTKnoxville.
Following the Marxist footpath of Ash-Lee Henderson, Movement 4 Black Lives, BLM and the DSA, the UTKPSA has signed onto the Jew-hating anti-Israel platform.
Vanderbilt Young Democratic Socialists of America (VYDSA)
In December 2019, the VYDSA was given official DSA chapter status. Following the model laid down by the UTKPSA, the Vanderbilt DSA is endorsing Marquita Bradshaw for U.S. Senate, and staying connected to Robin Kimbrough who was also a socialist candidate in the primary but lost to Bradshaw. Kimbrough says she’s coming back in 2022.
VYDSA has also connected itself to BLM Nashville and pushed the VYDSA members to lobby Metro Nashville council members in support of the Peoples’ Budget Coalition recommendations.
The VYDSA also promotes a “mutual aid network” meaning that its members should also connect with their local Our Revolution and/or Sunrise movement chapter.
Memphis Progressive Student Alliance (MPSA)
The University of Memphis PSA has been around for a while. In 2011, six students attached to the MPSA, were arrested along with Ash-Lee Henderson for protesting inside and during a Tennessee legislative hearing. In late 2019, however, the board resigned and the organization disbanded due to improprieties of its president. The MPSA has now folded into the Memphis Liberation Party.
Justice Democrats – a federal political action committee (PAC)
It is a great concern for our state that the Justice Democrats operate out of a Knoxville address. This organization successfully installed “the squad” (Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ayanna Pressley) in Congress.
They claim credit for Cori Bush’s win in Missouri. Of their 9 new candidates for Congress, 5 have so far won their primaries with one primary upcoming. Of the 7 incumbent candidates, 6 have won their primaries with one soon to come.
Incumbent Pramilla Jayapal, from Washington state, served as the co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) which Ilhan Omar joined as soon as she was elected to the U.S. House.’https://dailyrollcall.com/marxists-are-winning-local-elections-in-tennessee-part-3-in-the-tn-highlander-series/
The truth of it is that so many Marxist groups are working in every state. The USA is in a war against those whose one desire is to bury all those who love those unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness!
I came into this world in 1945 as a male and have been a male now for seventy five years. Now, you may think I have lost a few marbles in those years for even saying such but that is the state of things in todays society. Some are ‘demanding’ that a sex or gender not be assigned to a baby when born but the choice be made when the child is old enough to choose for themselves. What idiocy. Anyway, the article today discusses the America of 1950 to the America of 2020. Personally, in my own opinion, in so many ways it was better in the 1950s BUT that’s me.
‘If you could go back to 1950, would you do it? There would be no Internet, no cellphones and you would only be able to watch television in black and white. But even though they lacked many of our modern conveniences, people genuinely seemed to be much happier back then.
Families actually ate dinner together, neighbors knew and cared about one another, and being an “American” truly meant something.
Today, we like to think that we are so much more “advanced” than they were back then, but the truth is that our society is in the process of falling apart all around us. Could it be possible that we could learn some important lessons by looking back at how Americans lived 70 years ago?
Of course there has never been any era in our history when everything has been perfect. But without a doubt, things are vastly different today than they were back in 1950…
In 1950, Texaco Star Theatre, The Lone Ranger and Hopalong Cassidy were some of the most popular shows that Americans watched on television.
In 2020, a Netflix film entitled “Cuties” is so trashy and so disgusting that four states have sent a letter to Netflix asking for it to be removed because it is “fodder for those with criminal imaginations, serving to normalize the view that children are sexual beings.”
In 1950, television networks would not even show husbands and wives in bed together.
In 2020, “adult websites” get more traffic than Netflix, Amazon and Twitter combined.
In 1950, people would greet one another as they walked down the street.
In 2020, Americans are too enamored with their cellphones to be bothered with actual human contact.
In 1950, gum chewing and talking in class were some of the major disciplinary problems in our schools.
In 2020, kids are literally gunning down police officers in the streets.
In 1950, people would make an effort to dress up and look nice when they would go out in public.
In 2020, most of the population has become utter slobs and “People of Walmart” has become one of our most popular memes.
In 1950, the typical woman got married for the first time at age 20 and the typical man got married for the first time at age 22.
In 2020, the typical woman gets married for the first time at age 27 and the typical man gets married for the first time at age 29.
In 1950, a lot of people would leave their homes and their vehicles unlocked because crime rates were so low.
In 2020, many that live in urban areas are deathly afraid of all the civil unrest that has erupted, and gun sales have soared to all-time record highs.
In 1950, Americans actually attempted to parent their children.
In 2020, we pump our kids full of mind-altering drugs and we let our televisions and our video games raise our children.
In 1950, Baltimore was one of the most beautiful and most prosperous cities on the entire planet.
In 2020, Baltimore regularly makes headlines because of all the murders that are constantly occurring. Of course the exact same thing could be said about many of our other major cities.
In 1950, 78 percent of all households in America contained a married couple.
In 2020, that figure has fallen below 50 percent.
In 1950, about 5 percent of all babies in the United States were born to unmarried parents.
In 2020, about 40 percent of all babies in the United States will be born to unmarried parents.
In 1950, new churches were regularly being opened all over the United States.
In 2020, it is being projected that 1 out of every 5 churches in the U.S. “could be forced to shut their doors in the next 18 months”, and the mayor of Lubbock, Texas just said that opening a new Planned Parenthood clinic is like starting a church.
In 1950, we actually had high standards for our elected officials, and people actually did research on the candidates before they cast their votes.
In 2020, more than 4,000 people in one county in New Hampshire voted for a “transsexual Satanic anarchist” in the Republican primary, and she is now the Republican nominee for sheriff in Cheshire County.
In 1950, children would go outside and play when they got home from school.
In 2020, our parks and our playgrounds are virtually empty and we have the highest childhood obesity rate in the industrialized world.
In 1950, front porches were community gathering areas, and people would regularly have their neighbors over for dinner.
In 2020, many of us don’t know our neighbors at all, and the average American watches more than five hours of television a day.
In 1950, Americans used words such as “knucklehead”, “moxie” and “jalopy”.
In 2020, new terms such as “nomophobia”, “peoplekind” and “social distancing” have been introduced into the English language.
In 1950, the very first credit card was issued in the United States.
In 2020, Americans owe more than 930 billion dollars on their credit cards.
In 1950, one income could support an entire middle class household.
In 2020, tens of millions of Americans have lost their jobs and filed for unemployment, and more than half of all households in some of our largest cities are currently facing “serious financial problems”.
In 1950, the American people believed that the free market should govern the economy.
In 2020, most Americans seem to believe that the government in Washington and the Federal Reserve must endlessly “manage” the economy.
In 1950, “socialists” and “communists” were considered to be our greatest national enemies.
In 2020, most of our politicians in Washington have eagerly embraced socialist and communist policy goals.
In 1950, the U.S. Constitution was deeply loved and highly revered.
In 2020, anyone that actually admits to being a “constitutionalist” is considered to be a potential domestic terrorist.
In 1950, the United States loaned more money to the rest of the world than anybody else.
In 2020, the United States owes more money to the rest of the world than anybody else.
In 1950, the total U.S. national debt reached the 257 billion dollar mark for the first time in our history.
In 2020, we added 864 billion dollars to the national debt in the month of June alone. In other words, we added over three times more to the national debt in that one month than the total amount of debt that had been accumulated from the founding of our nation all the way to 1950.
In 1950, most Americans were generally happy with their lives.
In 2020, the suicide rate is at an all-time record high, and it has been rising every single year since 2007.’https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=4290
Things have changed and most are not for the good. One answer to the problem may be 2Chronicles 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
‘World scientists are working feverishly to develop a vaccine for the Chinese coronavirus, and they are suggesting that it might be available before the end of this year. I don’t mean to be critical, but they haven’t found a vaccine for AIDS after throwing billions of dollars at it for more than 30 years.
And there is no vaccine even for the common cold that’s been around for millennia.
If and when a vaccine is available, there are definite indications that everyone will be required to get it. Virginia has already made that decision. And that is the problem before us. After we live through the pandemic and the arguments about masks and lockdowns, now we face the most dangerous part of the battle—telling the do-gooders what they can do with the vaccine.
Mr. Trump will make the biggest mistake of his presidency if he tries to force every American to accept the jab. Trump declared, “Our military is now being mobilized so at the end of the year we’re going to be able to give it to a lot of people very, very rapidly.” Well, Mr. Trump, to quote Samuel Goldwyn, “include me out.” Forced vaccination for the Chinese coronavirus will be divisive, dangerous, and deadly!
And dumb.
I heard Trump say that the vaccination would not be required, but I don’t trust his health advisors at the federal health agencies. Those agencies are snake pits of corruption run by political hacks with medical degrees. None have ever looked a COVID-19 patient in the eye, and few have ever looked a patient in the eyes.
I wonder if Mr. Trump will assure Americans that we will not experience the following for not getting vaccinated: will we be safe from losing a job; losing our insurance or Medicare; have our children taken from us; or be required to have some identification to permit us to buy or sell?
The World Health Organization (WHO) has an Immunization Agenda 2030, in which they’re planning to vaccinate everyone for everything across the globe: “IA 2030 envisions a world where everyone, everywhere, at every age, fully benefits from vaccines to improve health and well-being.”
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the biggest funder of the WHO, and Gates intends to vaccinate the global population against COVID-19.
Many federal health officials’ eyes glaze over when they think and speak of financial benefits for COVID-19 research and treatment. Hospitals have been making huge profits from Medicare patients, as revealed by Senator Scott Jensen, Republican from Minnesota, on Fox News. He reported that hospitals are paid more if Medicare patients are listed as having the Chinese coronavirus and three times the normal price if they are put on a ventilator. This is what prompted the minor scandal recently when so many hospitals were listing suicide, heart deaths, etc., as COVID-19 deaths. One man died in an auto accident, another died of a heart attack, another died of gunshot wounds, yet all three were listed as having COVID-19.
Follow the money; after all, it’s yours.
However, it is not only local hospitals reaping the profits of death but federal health officials who are embedded with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the National Institutes for Health (NIH), and the World Health Organization (WHO). The CDC is the federal agency responsible for directing, developing, and deciding on safety and efficacy. In simple terms: does it work, is it safe, and is it really necessary?
And, in a jaded moment, I will suggest that another prerequisite is that it must be expensive. The history of vaccines and drugs has revealed that safety and effectiveness are sometime disregarded, but they are always expensive.
It is a fact known by all informed people that all drugs and vaccines are not safe for everyone. Many people have died or been harmed for life because of a bad reaction to drugs or vaccines. No health expert on earth will guarantee you that you will be safe by getting a vaccination. Drug and vaccine manufacturing companies are protected by law from being held legally accountable for any harmful reactions. Wonder why that is true if they are safe. A firm that needs such protection does not overwhelm me with confidence.
Moderna has been developing a COVID-19 vaccine with hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of help from the federal government. Moderna received a $483 million award from U.S. taxpayers in April, and the award could eventually be “worth about a billion.”
There is already a safe and effective treatment for the Chinese coronavirus, specifically, Hydroxychloroquine known as HCQ combined with azithromycin and zinc. To be effective, the patients must be in the early stage of the disease. Many physicians have treated hundreds of patients, many of them with additional health problems, with outstanding success. One Texas doctor has treated almost 400 patients with HCQ and has not lost a patient! Another physician has treated more than 700 patients and only lost one patient. The drug is sold over the counter in some nations and has been used safely for more than 65 years.
So, why isn’t every physician prescribing HCQ to COVID-19 patients? Dr. Fauci says that it has not had supervised clinical trials. Wait a minute. Many doctors who deal with dying patients are using it successfully. Well, yes, but the CDC doesn’t have a patent on the drug. Could that be the motive for Dr. Fauci to ridicule it at every opportunity? Moreover, Dr. Fauci and other critics have never treated a Chinese coronavirus patient.
Fauci has recommended the very expensive remdesivir drug owned by Gilead Sciences. It is declared that Fauci and the CDC have no financial interests in that company, and that may be true. However, could Fauci and the CDC downplay other drugs because they have put everything on the expected vaccine? And will any federal health agency or person have any financial benefit from its sale? Wow, that could be billions of dollars; and maybe as important, a Nobel Prize for Dr. Fauci.
The global vaccine market is showing some escalating growth, and it is expected that it will reach total revenues of nearly 60 billion U.S. dollars this year. Some of that will reach the hands of federal health officials who sit in judgment as to whether it is safe and effective! In 2016, the CDC made 137.8 million from royalty income. In total, 56 individual patents were found to be owned or shared by one or more members of the committees within the CDC. I believe that is called a conflict of interest.
If force is used to vaccinated everyone, it will make criminals out of Trump’s best supporters and may put some of us in jail. One of my readers said if Trump’s federal troops try to force him to be injected with mercury, he will inject the injecter with lead. Both mercury and lead are lethal. Forced vaccinations mean many will be shot, really shot!
Since I believe the vaccine may be worse than the disease, I will refuse to be vaccinated, although I’m convinced Trump’s advisors will recommend draconian measures to force me (in a free society) to capitulate. I would not even consider getting vaccinated if I were given the right answers to these questions: does the vaccine contain mercury, formaldehyde, or any human cells? What evidence is available that it will work? What proof is there to know it is safe? What are the full results of the tests? If you have a negative reaction such as being paralyzed, who pays, and how much? Why can’t we have religious objections since they are available in other matters?
I hope Mr. Trump will promise not to force free citizens to have a chip implanted or number tattooed on the hand or forehead.’http://donboys.cstnews.com/mr-trump-forcing-covid-19-vaccinations-on-everyone-will-be-divisive-dangerous-and-deadly
The Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) is ‘…an independent, non-profit public policy think tank, dedicated to preserving and strengthening the foundations of economic and political freedom.’https://ipa.org.au/about-us
In the following ‘The IPA’s Gideon Rozner explains to Americans why Melbourne is allowing itself to be ruined by an unhinged Premier, his thoroughly politicised police force and the general population’s supine acceptance of mandated insanity:
…The fact that Melbourne has allowed itself to be decimated in the name of the coronavirus is as predictable as it is heartbreaking. It’s a city a bit like San Francisco or Seattle—a beautiful, vibrant, dynamic metropolis that until now had among the best food, culture and nightlife in the world. But like America’s coastal cities, left-wing politics is a package deal—street art in aid of one asinine cause or another almost becomes part of the scenery.
Daniel Andrews knows this, and exploits it. Somewhere along the way, he picked up the playbook of Democrats who preside over dysfunction, poverty, crime and thinly-veiled corruption, and make up for it all by wheeling out some woke gimmick every so often—almost always involving vast sums of public money. The coronavirus has given him the best talking point of all: ‘The economy versus human life.’
It’s the recurring theme in Andrews’ interminable press conferences—daily sermons that are so theatrical and dishonest they would make Andrew Cuomo blush. Behind him always, a purple banner with the state government’s Orwellian coronavirus slogan, which can also be found plastered on billboards all over the city: Staying Apart Keeps Us Together.
The media response is—with a few exceptions—fawning and uncritical, but it’s the only real check or balance we have: The state parliament has barely sat since March, and coronavirus restrictions have been made by executive fiat under dubious ’emergency powers.’
All that said, Andrews’ hitherto insurmountable hold on power is slipping. The lockdown has wrought enough joblessness, business closures and outright despair that people are starting to take notice. Even in the People’s Republic of Victoria, the mood is turning against the man now widely derided as ‘Chairman Dan’….‘https://quadrant.org.au/
We usually don’t appreciate or miss something until it is taken away. So it is with speech. ‘The anti-discrimination system in Tasmania is a wrecking-ball to free speech, as a farcical situation surrounding Tasmanian Senator Claire Chandler has demonstrated. The Senator’s opinion piece for the Hobart Mercury, advocating that women and girls’ sport should only be for the female sex, now sees her effectively gagged and dragged before an anti-discrimination tribunal.
“The Anti-Discrimination Commission is acting beyond power, and in a way that threatens the functioning of our democracy,” ACL Tasmanian Director Christopher Brohier said today. “The Commission’s action against the Senator effectively silences all Tasmanians who wish to speak the truth on these issues.
“The Australian Constitution contains an implied freedom for all Australians to engage in political communication. This is essential for the functioning of our democracy. That freedom bars all governments from gagging Australians speaking truthfully in public.
“The ACL has consistently called for the repeal or restriction of such gag laws in Tasmania and Australia. Senator Claire Chandler’s case shows why. Laws should be repealed or ruled unconstitutional if they attack an MP for discussing an issue of great concern to her constituents. As Senator Chandler has said, this case is an attack not only on the freedom of speech but an attack on truth.”
ACL called on the Anti-Discrimination Commissioner to reject the complaint and for the Tasmanian Parliament to repeal these gag laws.’https://www.acl.org.au/mr_tas_chandler?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=enews%20200908&utm_content=enews%20200908+CID_65c57b33f2340893859d91d77cbd5876&utm_source=CreateSend&utm_term=Gag%20laws%20are%20bad%20laws
Dan Andrews is the Premier of Victoria, Australia. This man is as incapable of running a state as I am. It seems the only thing he can do is make a mess of everything he touches. He is the poster child of the CCP!
One might get the idea that the Department of Education just may be about EDUCATION! Well, not so when it comes to the New South Wales department of Education led by Mark Scott. It seems Mark thinks PC race identity culture MUST be involved. People must be divided into tribes such as Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal. It was on Thursday, 31 January 2019, that ‘Mark Scott and two members of the Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) Working Group, Claire Beattie and Darren Bell, launched the department’s first Reconciliation Action Plan for corporate staff.’ https://education.nsw.gov.au/about-us/strategies-and-reports/our-reconciliation-action-plan/reconciliation-action-plan/secretary-mark-scott-officially-launches-the-reconciliation-action-plan
The following is a transcript of that meeting. It is LONG but please NOTE that Clair Beattie, one of the panel, says that Australia will always be Aboriginal land. Even though you as a non-Aboriginal may have paid with your own money for the land it is not yours but it belongs to the Aboriginals. What race baiting propaganda via the NSW Department of Education. Throughout the following I will highlight certain sections as well as making some of my own remarks.
‘Good afternoon everybody, I’m Mark Scott, Secretary of the New South Wales Department of Education. Joining me today are Claire Beattie and Darren Bell, and they’re members of the department’s Reconciliation Action Plan Working Group. Can I begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which we meet. The custodians, the Gadigal people of Eora Nation and pay my respect to Elders past and present, and acknowledge the continuing contribution and connection to this land.
Claire Beattie
I’d like to welcome everyone and acknowledge that no matter where you’re meeting today, that you’re meeting on Aboriginal land. Always has been, always will be Aboriginal land.
Darren Bell
I’m a Ngunnawal/Yuinman. My family comes from Yass and the south coast of New South Wales. I’d like to pay my respects to our Elders, and our mob and say thank you to them for their continual custodianship of our cultures, our lands and our waterways.
Mark Scott
So let me talk a little bit about what we’re up to this afternoon. We’re launching the Department of Education’s first Reconciliation Action Plan, and it’s a plan for our corporate staff. So what we’re going to do this afternoon is to talk a little bit about the origins of the plan, why we’re doing it, what we hope to achieve from it and what comes next. So I’m really pleased this afternoon to be able to launch the department’s first RAP, our first Reconciliation Action Plan, and it talks about our commitment to diversity, to inclusion and to advancing reconciliation. And it gives us some practical steps, some practical actions which are going to drive our contribution to reconciliation.
The focus of this first plan is for our staff who work in corporate offices. Our corporate staff, our corporate officers and the partnerships that we have, and it’s going to lay the foundation in the department for reconciliation initiatives and we’re going to develop successive plans in the years to come with an increased focus on schools and the communities in which we serve. You can see on the screen there, a copy of this plan which has been developed in consultation with our staff and the broader community, that’s going to be the centrepiece of our work in the year ahead.
Let me talk a little bit about the first RAP that we are developing. We’ve spent a lot of time thinking and talking about this, and it’s important to remember that the RAP is an ongoing process for an organisation like us. And it provides us with an opportunity to think about what this is like as a place of work and to challenge ourselves so that we have a deep, rich cultural understanding and cultural insight. It’s important that as a department, we have that. Because we want to have deeper insight, deeper understanding deeper commitment and deeper respect.
I was very keen to develop a RAP when I joined the department from my time running the ABC. (Scott worked at the ABC which is a far Left leaning Australian Federal government supported broadcasting organization. This left leaning Marxist organization received over one billion dollars per year to spouth their Marxist agenda on the Australian people) At the ABC, we’d struggled in a number of areas, I think, in working with our Aboriginal staff, we’d failed to make key targets that we’d set on employment. And the transformational event for us in all these things was the development of the RAP. It gave us some clear targets, it gave us some clear challenges, but it forces us to think about ourselves as an organisation. About what we were like as a place to work, whether we had deep cultural insight, whether we had cultural safety. As we focused on ourselves a bit and the kinds of organisation that we were and what we wanted to be, it was amazing that we started to deliver on all those targets as well. (Scott has now divided the ABC into a tribal culture and will now work on doing the same at the NSW Department of Education)
I found it very powerful, and it was an idea I brought with me to the department. (Scott is now promoting this tribalism from the ABC to the NSW Education Department. Where are the politicians with common sense and backbone on this? Are they all asleep?) As you’d know, all around the country, major corporations and organisations like us have reconciliation action plans that are developed with Reconciliation Australia to help us reflect and to think about the kind of organisation we are, the kind of organisation we want to be and the kind of outcomes that we want to achieve for the broader community, for the organisation itself and the outcomes that we want to be able to deliver. So I saw that the important part of this plan was to start with us, to reflect on us and to think about the kind of organisation we are and that’s the start of this journey.
So what are some measures of success that we’ve identified in this our first Reconciliation Action Plan? You’ll see some of them are up there on your screen. We’re focused on employment. We want to exceed the Premier’s Priority target for doubling the number of Aboriginal people in senior leadership roles by 2025, and we want to see 3% of senior leadership roles filled by Aboriginal staff (Not whether a person is qualified or not but the tribe they identify with). We want to support and increase the number of Aboriginal people working in all positions across our department, and we want to think very creatively and deliberatively as to how we do that, how we make this a great place to work for our Aboriginal staff and how we’re providing outstanding professional opportunities to build a great career with us here in the Department of Education. (Where does a non-identifying person fit into all this? Identity race culture at its height of insanity.)
You know, we’re a big and important institution in this state. We’re probably the biggest employer in this state, so when we do things, we can make an impact. (Yes, as the biggest, because we are government, we can impact society with their own money. Communism at work!) So we want to be supporting Aboriginal- owned businesses in New South Wales. So we’re saying we want to award Aboriginal-owned businesses at least 3% of domestic contracts for goods and services issued by the department by 2021. And when you get a big organisation like us, with the kind of budget we have, that 3%, we think, can make an enormous difference to Aboriginal-owned businesses all around New South Wales (Race bait culture).
Finally and very importantly, we recognise our leadership position in this community. So for the department to be focused on national reconciliation makes an impact on the future of this nation as far as national reconciliation is concerned. No organisation is more involved in shaping the future of Australia than the New South Wales Department of Education – 810,000 students in our schools. The largest educator in the country. The future of Australia has been determined by the New South Wales Department of Education. So as we develop this RAP and then roll the activities from future RAPs into schools, what a profound impact we can have on the challenge and the importance of national reconciliation (No wonder those coming out of the education system in this age are left leaning socialists).
We talk a lot about reconciliation, it’s there in the plan, we talk about it a lot, but as an Aboriginal man, Darren, what does reconciliation mean to you?
Darren Bell
It means acknowledging past wrongs and actions. (This means white man wrongs and actions. This is the white supremacy lie in the department of education!)Because when you say sorry for something, you never do it again. And that’s what I think we need to remember, basically. (Former PM Rudd began a Sorry Day and that isn’t enough!)
Mark Scott
We need to start by that point of reflection. And part of the work that we’ll be doing as part of this RAP is reflecting, coming to deeper points of understanding ourselves (More reflection on whiteness and all the bad things that come with that whiteness!). And I’ll come back and ask you in a minute where future RAPs go on the back of this. Claire, we’ve run a consultation process to this point. I mean, we had the idea of a brand new RAP, but then went and talked with our staff and talked with stakeholders. Take us through a little bit of what that consultation process has involved.
Claire Beattie
Thank you, Mark. I’m really delighted that over 2,000 of our corporate staff have engaged thus far in our journey in RAP. You’ve joined us in mass voices like today, thank you for coming, and joining, and listening. You’ve joined us for cinema events. Some people have joined us for our Aboriginal network events. We’ve also had discussions via email to the RAP inbox. We’ve also had surveys.
One of the most interesting parts of this journey was what people said about what they expect to see in the RAP in our statement. You’ll notice the RAP statement encompasses all of the feedback we had, and some of the key messages we had was around mutual respect, integrity, cultural safety. So you’ll see that featured in the RAP as well.
I’m really proud of the journey we’ve been on, and I think we’ve walked really mindfully together, and we’ve really taken our time with listening and having really honest conversations. So I thank you for coming on this journey. It’s not finished yet. As we’ve said, there’s more steps to go. But really, there’s over 600 people online right now joining this conversation. So it’s really exciting.
Mark Scott
You talk about walking together. Explain that a little bit more. What does that mean?
Claire Beattie
I think it’s really important that we’ve paced this, that we haven’t sprinted off in a direction. Everyone is on a different part of their journey for reconciliation. Some people are new to the journey, they’ve just stepped in. They might not know a lot about Aboriginal culture or the history that we’ve had with the department (This whole reconciliation is leading the Aboriginal back into their paganism. The Dreamtime is pagan and the preaching of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ brought many out of darkness and into the light of the Lord Jesus Christ). Some people have grown up Aboriginal. Some people believe in reconciliation, some people are sceptical.
We’re all at different parts of our journey, so there’s no point in sprinting ahead and leaving people behind. We have to be patient, we have to be mindful, we have to have mutual respect and have really open conversations. One of the uncles, Uncle Greg, who’s a Darug Elder, actually talks about the reason why pianos have black and white keys, and the reason why they make beautiful music is because you play both black and white keys. So I think it’s really important that all of us come together on this journey towards reconciliation.
Mark Scott
So it’s a great opportunity, in a sense, to reset the relationship, to come to deeper understanding, establish greater respect and insight, and then to roll that into some really practical steps and strategies so we want to work our way through. We’ve had some key themes that have emerged through the consultation, and then we roll that into practical steps, because we want this to be a living blueprint. I hope that this RAP becomes really one of the very important documents, a cornerstone document of the Department of Education.
A year ago, we launched the strategic plan. I said, “I wanted that to be a living document”, and whenever I go on to schools and talking with school leaders, I’m discussing the strategic plan, and I feel it is a living document, I get it quoted back at me all the time. I want the RAP to be a living document as well, and I want you to be able to read it and to access it, and to think about what you’re doing in your corporate office, whereever you work in the department to advance the principles of the RAP and to deliver on the strategies that are outlined (Can you imagine this seems to be one of the MOST important items in the Education Department).
So let me talk a little bit about the first actions that we’re going to have as part of this RAP. The RAP as you will see, is backed up by 12 concrete actions and 52 deliverables that we’ve identified, and they’re centred around four key themes: relationships, respect, opportunities and governance. And with these themes and actions and deliverables and lots of hard work, we really want to see the development of positive two-way relationships based on trust.
We want to see Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories, cultures and rights valued and recognised. And we really want to be a great diversified workforce that reflects the communities we serve and is really growing the state’s first economy in a very practical and supportive way. In doing all this, we want to continue the important work we do with the AECG. For 40 years or more, the AECG has been an important partner of the Department of Education. They help us grow our insight, and to grow our effectiveness on the ground and working with community, and also helping to serve Aboriginal students and improve their wellbeing and their educational outcomes. In the year ahead, we want to work closely with the AECG to forge a new agreement with them so there can be a pathway to further partnership in the decade ahead.
Darren, we’ve got this RAP document, and I encourage people to find it, to find it online, to read and think about how we’re going to make it real in the department. What comes next? It’s great to have a document, but where does it go from here?
Darren Bell
I think one of our big articles is truth telling. We need to, like I mentioned before, acknowledge what’s happened in the past, and things like that, and ensuring that it doesn’t happen again. I think that’s a big factor in how we move forward.
Mark Scott
What do you mean by truth telling?
Darren Bell
The department had a policy called the Clean, cut and courteous policy where if a non-Aboriginal family didn’t want an Aboriginal student in their school, they can have them removed, basically. And clean, cut and courteous so you had to be, obviously, clean, cut and presentable, and courteous, and not be rude and things like that. So non-Aboriginal family didn’t want a student in a class or in the school like that, they could have them removed. That’s the sort of thing that not a lot… I’m sure a lot of people watching right now wouldn’t know that, and it still affects people who are alive today who had to undergo that policy.
Mark Scott
Including parents and grandparents.
Darren Bell
Absolutely, yeah. That sort of stuff can have quite a long-lasting effect on people, and their self-worth, and all that sort of stuff. So we need to acknowledge that sort of thing, that that actually did happen and this department did implement them at one stage. Thankfully, obviously, they’re gone now, but… (They are gone BUT! Never enough! There is always something the white people have done that needs to be corrected)
Mark Scott
So you’ve got to deal with that stuff?
Darren Bell
You got to deal with that stuff, yeah. I mean, it’s part of the healing process as well, I believe. With this RAP, we’ve instigated… Well, not instigated, it’s a bit of a harsh word, but we’ve implemented, I should say, a network, an Aboriginal corporate staff network. At that network, we had a barbecue. That was our inaugural type of thing. We had a barbecue last December, and we had our colleagues from all different state offices around Sydney come along. So we made some new friends, met up with some old friends and had some yarns. The yarns were about truth telling and things like that, that’s what we need to do, and cultural awareness training for our leaders in the department, so for our managers, and our directors, and our secretaries and dep secs. Hopefully, that would filter down to them bringing it into their teams, and overall, the department would undergo cultural awareness training. Because it’s not just about…You need to make the department a culturally safe place to work, and that benefits everyone, I think. So with our next RAP, it’s called the Innovate RAP, and that will be developed over the next two years. And we want people to walk with us on that journey. It’s a two-way street and we want people to walk with us on that journey.
Mark Scott
So opportunities this year, for cultural awareness training (The tax payer dollars pay for this CULTURE AWARENESS TRAINING!) and the executive did do a day and a half of cultural awareness training in partnership with the AECG and with leaders from our schools who came and spoke with us. And I think I can say, for every member of the executive team, it was an absorbing, a fascinating, a challenging and confronting conversation and experience. And I think many of us would have thought, we’ve done this kind of thing before. I was just amazed at what I learnt from that experience, and the challenges that came on the back of that. To actually use that insight to help make this a great place for all our staff to work. An inclusive place, a supportive place, a place where we can really lead the community and then the responsibility you have to the generations to come who are in our care every day. So we launch this RAP now for the corporate staff. Then the Innovate RAP comes in a year’s time, where the truth telling will be more a feature of that. And then, on we go with more ambitious targets and absolute clarity about the outcomes that we’re trying to achieve.
That’s the story of this RAP document. I’d encourage you, as I said, to take a look at it. There’s beautiful artwork on the front of it. And this is done by a student in one of our schools, Suzanna from Boggabilla Central School. She’s from the Gamilaraay Country, and we’re having this artwork framed. It will be featured in a prominent place at 105 Phillip Street, our Parramatta office. Some of you have already been online. Excuse me as I reach over to find the tough questions. I’ll be answering easy questions.
Mark Scott
These guys will be answering the tough questions. A really good question has come through here about Aboriginal catering companies. Great idea, but where do you start, how do you find an Aboriginal catering company?
Claire Beattie
On the intranet, live at the moment, you’ll find the RAP hub. Where it has a lot of FAQs including where to find Aboriginal catering companies, Aboriginal suppliers. It’s really important, as Mark said, that we’ve made a commitment to support Aboriginal businesses. And as we are such a massive organisation and a massive buyer of things, if we did meet that KPI of 3% of buying from Aboriginal businesses, it really would help Aboriginal economic prosperity as well. Please do check out the RAP hub, it’s live now.
Mark Scott
And Darren, where do we find more information? If I’m an Aboriginal member of staff and I want to join the network, how do I go about doing that?
Darren Bell
So what we’re looking at doing is setting up a little working group in the initial stages. Develop initiatives that we want to involve with our Aboriginal colleagues. We are looking at things like even having a social media page for the network, so people can engage in that way and talk to each other. Which is obviously, find it a lot easier to do it that way. Because I think we need this network especially because I don’t know how many of my colleagues are Aboriginal in the department, and especially in 105 Phillip Street. I sent a little broadcast email asking staff to see who’s Aboriginal. I’ve got quite a few responses which I’m really happy about. So we’re going to develop this network so we can keep abreast of these sort of things, and contribute ideas for the next RAP.
Mark Scott
And even opportunities, I guess, for staff, they might not be sure that they want to connect with the network or identify, just to even talk through some of those issues with you or other members of staff.
Darren Bell
Absolutely, yeah.
Mark Scott
A question’s come through here from Tracy. What does success look like to me, or what does a successful RAP look like?
I think it’s multifaceted. Finally, finally… What I really want to do is transform the future of Australia by shaping the lives of the young people that are in our care (DO THE PARENTS OF THE CHILDREN WHO ARE ATTENDING THESE SCHOOLS KNOW THE INTENT OF ALL THIS?). One of the things that we all must be desperate to do is to ensure that Aboriginal students in our schools have learning outcomes that are the same as any child in our care.
The gap that currently exists now is untenable, and unacceptable, and is an indictment of what has been offered by this country to young Aboriginal people. So finally, you want to fix that. But you don’t just fix that by focusing on that, you’ve actually got to be the right kind of organisation to do that. And so, I see a reconciliation, I see a cultural safety, I see the kinds of staff we can recruit and keep are all about us being the right kind of organisation to be able to deliver those results that we really fundamentally want.
But we’re a leading institution in the country and we should be leading and modelling reconciliation. Modelling being a great place to work. Modelling cultural insight and understanding and achieving extraordinary things for the young Aboriginal people in our care, in our schools. So that’s all. That’s a long journey, but you start by this kind of process that we got starting now, and we don’t rest here, as you’ve heard, we keep moving, and we keep advancing, and next year, we’ll be back with a new plan. Lots of people are asking where they can get cultural awareness training. How are we going to offer that?
Darren Bell
As far as I know, the AECG can help offer it. Like you said, you undertook the training yourself. There are other organisations. I actually see commercials on SBS, how they do it and the company that they use, things like that. But we do have, of course.
Claire Beattie
I invite people to write in into the RAP inbox. If they want to run with cultural awareness training, we’ve got a whole set of providers from the amazing Mick Gooda’s of the world; Flick Ryan, a few others that we do use that have been phenomenal in taking our staff through the journey. And it’s an emotional journey, so people have to be ready for that. There is truth telling on that journey, it can be uncomfortable. But at the end of it, it does create a more inclusive, a more welcoming workplace for all of us to come to a mutual understanding. So if you are interested in doing cultural awareness training, please write into the RAP inbox or go to the RAP hub.
Mark Scott
Just a couple more questions, and then, it’s going to be cake time. So I’ll come to the cake in a minute. Questions come through on the AECG, I did reference them earlier. Has the AECG been involved and consulted on the RAP?
We have reached out to the AECG and briefed them on this process, they wished us well on this, but we look forward to really working closely with the AECG, particularly around a new engagement and a new arrangement with them, a new undertaking with them that takes us through the years ahead. They are very very important partners in all the work we’re doing with Aboriginal students in our schools, and their network is very, very powerful and very important all around the state. Finally, I think this is just a question about… You know, it’s an education department. Why aren’t schools involved in this process? So where do schools fit in to this work?
Claire Beattie
Eventually, obviously, we will welcome schools into this conversation. I think our corporate area was a great place to start, it’s a smaller group, but it’s also a group that we can start cultural awareness training without upsetting and taking them off their job which is to be in front of students, making sure every student is known, and valued and cared for. Also, I think it was an opportunity to really engage with executive in the corporate area as well and ensure that we’re going from the top-down, it was led by you.
I can also say, Mark, and I hope that we don’t embarrass you by saying this, but how amazing it is to have a Secretary come in and say… You’ve brought it from the ABC with you, but you’ve also stood in front of this and said, “We must have this” for the reasons that you’ve just unpacked. For us, I think it’s been really refreshing to know that we have your support on this journey, and to know that from the top-down, you’re for reconciliation and you really do support the idea of having a culturally safe environment for Aboriginal people (What government leader allows money and time to be spent on this race identity PC propaganda?).
Mark Scott
And I think that’s what we all aspire to, and we know as we do that, it changes us, changes this organisation. And if you change this organisation, you change the future of the country (There it is. Changing the country! What kind of change do you think Mr. Scott means?).
Claire Beattie
Absolutely.
Mark Scott
As you said, Darren, this is a torrid, and difficult, and painful history. We need to learn from that, and understand that, and build a wonderful future for our kids and build a better Australia as a consequence of this. So thanks for your time this afternoon. I bring exciting news if you are in one of our larger regional offices, because there is cake there for you, just as there is cake here for us. Wonderful colours and the artwork that Suzanna has done which adorns the RAP is on the cake.
So I’m going to ask my two colleagues here, who have been on the RAP working party, to cut the cake. I also want to thank all members of that working party who worked so hard to wrestle down the complexities of the issues. It’s easy for me to say this is an idea, then the hard work starts. I want to thank Meg Montgomery and the team that she led to get us to this point. We’re really celebrating the start with the launch of the RAP. They’re exciting days ahead, challenges ahead, and hopefully, great outcomes for our kids and our nation as well. So please cut the cake and enjoy your afternoon. Thanks for being with us.
Claire Beattie
Thank you.
Darren Bell
Thank you. Do it together?
Mark Scott
Do it together.
Claire Beattie
Yes. Let’s do it. Thanks everyone.’https://education.nsw.gov.au/about-us/strategies-and-reports/our-reconciliation-action-plan/reconciliation-action-plan/secretary-mark-scott-officially-launches-the-reconciliation-action-plan
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