theory of the offensive Comments http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:31:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Eric http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2009/06/26/as-good-as-a-holiday/#comment-129 Sun, 26 Jul 2009 03:56:19 +0100 http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2009/06/26/as-good-as-a-holiday/#comment-129 Not that I'd advise ending your holiday prematurely, but I also wouldn't mind if you came back with those smokes. Not that I’d advise ending your holiday prematurely, but I also wouldn’t mind if you came back with those smokes.

]]> by: novice101 http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2008/09/24/the-banal-horror-of-topicality/#comment-128 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:40:36 +0000 http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2008/09/24/the-banal-horror-of-topicality/#comment-128 No real excuse to post this here except to get the money from CNN to someone who is deserving. Hope you don't mind. Help someone to help others, at the same time give recognition to one who have been selflessly helping others. http://novice101.wordpress.com/2008/11/06/help-give-away-us100,000/ No real excuse to post this here except to get the money from CNN to someone who is deserving. Hope you don’t mind.

Help someone to help others, at the same time give recognition to one who have been selflessly helping others.

http://novice101.wordpress.com/2008/11/06/help-give-away-us100,000/

]]> by: woooo http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2008/06/10/nothing/#comment-127 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 06:34:06 +0100 http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2008/06/10/nothing/#comment-127 kids language is great init. emily ( 13 months ) garbles 'grandma' and says whole sentences that kind of sound like something and surely mean great things to her. grandma took leah to richmond on the train, you would have thought she had gone to the moon. aint kids the best.!!! I cant wait until the new bubby girl, due late oct fyi :) kids language is great init. emily ( 13 months ) garbles ‘grandma’ and says whole sentences that kind of sound like something and surely mean great things to her. grandma took leah to richmond on the train, you would have thought she had gone to the moon. aint kids the best.!!! I cant wait until the new bubby girl, due late oct fyi :)

]]> by: liam http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2007/09/19/redfern/#comment-126 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:01:44 +0100 http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2007/09/19/redfern/#comment-126 Birch, Tony, '"Who Gives A Fuck About White Society Anymore?": A response to the Redfern Riot', Overland, 2004, 175 Not sure if you're still writing for this blog, but I hope you do. see ya soon Birch, Tony, ‘”Who Gives A Fuck About White Society Anymore?”: A response to the Redfern Riot’, Overland, 2004, 175

Not sure if you’re still writing for this blog, but I hope you do.

see ya soon

]]> by: John Hutnyk http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2007/12/24/communist-headache/#comment-125 Mon, 24 Dec 2007 08:55:47 +0000 http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2007/12/24/communist-headache/#comment-125 "Communist Headache" had pictures of blowflies on the cover I recall. I still have copies somewhere in my room, but since (as I once unrealistically expected) the police have never been round to check that my papers are in order (Foucault), I need someone to come sort my office out. No money for a research assistant to do it though, and I don't know any croakers who'll write (Burroughs always had this trouble). So, these days the papers pile up, but its not the overly theoreticist communist headfuck I crave, but communist bellyaching that occupies my days. Ho ho. Get the quack to do their thing. Seasonal felicitations/Red Salute xj. “Communist Headache” had pictures of blowflies on the cover I recall. I still have copies somewhere in my room, but since (as I once unrealistically expected) the police have never been round to check that my papers are in order (Foucault), I need someone to come sort my office out. No money for a research assistant to do it though, and I don’t know any croakers who’ll write (Burroughs always had this trouble). So, these days the papers pile up, but its not the overly theoreticist communist headfuck I crave, but communist bellyaching that occupies my days. Ho ho. Get the quack to do their thing. Seasonal felicitations/Red Salute xj.

]]> by: WGAR News http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2007/08/08/stabilised-and-normalised/#comment-124 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 05:57:26 +0000 http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2007/08/08/stabilised-and-normalised/#comment-124 A sample of WGAR News on the NT intervention Dear Reader, Please find below a sample of WGAR News. WGAR News is an email newsletter that focuses mainly on the Northern Territory intervention. Subscription is free. Subscribers can expect to receive one email every 2 to 10 days. If you would like to subscribe, email wgar.news@gmail.com and include the words "subscribe WGAR News" in the message header. Thanking you, the WGAR News team - - - [WGAR-news] 12 Dec 07: NT Intervention WGAR: Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia) 12 DEC 2007: NORTHERN TERRITORY INTERVENTION Contents: Media Releases Opinion Panel Discussion You Tube News MEDIA RELEASES: Scoop: Friends Of The Earth: Stand up for Human Rights in Australia: Self Determination Not Intervention http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0712/S00610.htm 10 Dec 07: "With the intervention there's been changes to every law; land rights law, the racial discrimination act, the social security act. ... Now the incoming Rudd government needs to get serious about restoring our rights and removing the Intervention legislation." Barbara Shaw, a town camp resident in Alice Springs NACCHO: Mr Rudd today is the day to sign http://www.naccho.org.au/Files/Documents/Media_Release_re_International_Human_Rights_Day_10122007.pdf 10 Dec 07: "We still have not had a clear message on what this government is going to do about the Northern Territory emergency intervention which was and is an assault on our human rights if there ever was one. We continue to hear statements such as ‘we need to let it continue for some time to see if it is working’. Sorry this has taken away our rights. Even if it ‘works’ at some level it is still unacceptable to the Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory and must be rejected in its entirety." Dr Mick Adams Chairperson of the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO) Sydney Indymedia: WGAR urges PM to place a Moratorium on Northern Territory Intervention http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/story/wgar-urges-pm-place-moratorium-northern-territory-intervention 7 Dec 07: "In a letter to the PM and Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, the Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (WGAR) strongly recommends that the Federal government takes immediate steps to undo the harm of the NT Intervention which is negatively impacting on the lives of Aboriginal people in the NT." OPINION: Medical News Today UK: Northern Territory Intervention - Help Or Hindrance? Australia http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/90818.php 9 Dec 07: "The Government's Northern Territory Intervention, aimed at improving health and living conditions in Indigenous communities, has been met with mixed reviews in a collection of articles published in the latest Medical Journal of Australia." The Medical Journal of Australia: December Contents: Northern Territory Intervention [scroll down page] http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/187_11_031207/contents_031207.html Dec 07: A collection of articles on the NT intervention eMJA: The Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory: engaging with the intervention to improve primary health care http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/187_11_031207/bof11305_fm.html 8 Dec 07: "The emergency intervention came from left field. The health component, like the intervention as a whole, got off to a bad start. ... its initial implementation was profoundly disempowering to many Aboriginal people in an environment where disempowerment and loss of identity lie at the root of community dysfunction. ... It is also vitally important that the racially discriminatory aspects of the intervention, ... be repealed" PANEL DISCUSSION: Sacred or Profane? The Australian Government’s Intervention in Aboriginal Communities 2 Dec 07: Listen to the discussion on-line: http://www.cvillepodcast.com/2007/12/07/sacred-or-profane-the-australian-governments-intervention-in-aboriginal-communities/ Read a summary of the main points: http://homepage.mac.com/will_owen/iblog/C2062160667/E20071208111506/ Indigenous radio station 98.9FM Let's Talk - Australia's only Indigenous presented talkback: http://989fm.com.au/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=29 : "Interviews with " Listen to these interviews on-line: YOU TUBE: Documentary on the NT intervention http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=V6HmaDe1DS4 "The Australian Government has passed two major legislations in the past twelve months that have demolished aboriginal rights, relating to land, culture and self-determination." NEWS: NIT: NT intervention misconceived and poorly planned: former judge http://www.nit.com.au/breakingNews/story.aspx?id=13623 11 Dec 07: "A retired Federal Court judge has labelled the former government's intervention into Northern Territory Indigenous communities as misconceived and poorly planned. ... He [Ron Merkel, QC] said the intervention could be considered a fundamental breach of human rights." ABC: Land council labels NT intervention 'discriminatory' http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/11/2115232.htm?site=idx-nt 11 Dec 07: "A peak Indigenous group has backed suggestions the Commonwealth's intervention in the Northern Territory is discriminatory." NIT: Better Indigenous participation needed in intervention: HREOC http://www.nit.com.au/breakingNews/story.aspx?id=13612 10 Dec 07: "The Commonwealth intervention into Northern Territory Aboriginal communities will fail unless the new government takes steps to improve Indigenous people's participation in it, a new human rights report says. ... measures in the intervention that bypass racial discrimination laws have put Australia's proud human rights reputation at risk." NIT: Intervention "created a mess" but can work: NLC http://www.nit.com.au/breakingNews/story.aspx?id=13619 10 Dec 07: "The Howard government's intervention in Northern Territory Aboriginal communities has "created a mess" but it can be made to work, the Northern Land Council (NLC) says." Age: High Court challenge to NT intervention http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/high-court-challenge-to-nt-intervention/2007/12/07/1196813026893.html 8 Dec 07: "THE constitutional challenge that former indigenous affairs minister Mal Brough warned could destroy the emergency intervention in the Northern Territory is expected to go before the full bench of the High Court in March." Australian: Senate to block NT permits http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22889394-5006790,00.html 8 Dec 07: "THE Rudd Government's plan to reinstate permits to access Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory could be derailed for at least six months by a hostile Coalition-dominated Senate." Australian: No time for dreaming http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22887742-5013172,00.html 8 Dec 07: "A POISONED chalice and a perfect chance: the new Labor Government's first great domestic policy challenge is looming before Kevin Rudd in all its charged complexity." ABC: Scrymgour wants intervention funding maintained http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/07/2112480.htm?site=idx-nt 7 Dec 07: "The Northern Territory's Indigenous Policy Minister says she will lobby for the level of intervention funding to be maintained when she meets her federal counterpart next week." ABC: Intervention blamed for rises in drunks http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/07/2112470.htm?site=idx-nt 7 Dec 07: "The Territory Government is blaming the Commonwealth intervention for a rise in public drunkenness has probably increased since the intervention." Australian: Intervention finder's fee row http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22883978-2702,00.html 7 Dec 07: "DOCTORS have attacked the Australian Medical Association amid revelations it negotiated a deal for two associated companies to be paid a $1300 "placement fee" from public funds for every doctor they help to recruit for the federal Government's indigenous intervention scheme." - - - Subscription is free. To subscribe, email wgar.news@gmail.com and include the words "subscribe WGAR News" in the message header. To unsubscribe, email wgar.news@gmail.com and include the words "unsubscribe WGAR News" in the message header. A sample of WGAR News on the NT intervention

Dear Reader,

Please find below a sample of WGAR News. WGAR News is an email newsletter that focuses mainly on the Northern Territory intervention. Subscription is free. Subscribers can expect to receive one email every 2 to 10 days. If you would like to subscribe, email wgar.news@gmail.com and include the words “subscribe WGAR News” in the message header.

Thanking you,

the WGAR News team

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[WGAR-news] 12 Dec 07: NT Intervention

WGAR: Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)

12 DEC 2007: NORTHERN TERRITORY INTERVENTION

Contents:
Media Releases
Opinion
Panel Discussion
You Tube
News

MEDIA RELEASES:

Scoop: Friends Of The Earth: Stand up for Human Rights in Australia: Self Determination Not Intervention
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0712/S00610.htm
10 Dec 07: “With the intervention there’s been changes to every law; land rights law, the racial discrimination act, the social security act. … Now the incoming Rudd government needs to get serious about restoring our rights and removing the Intervention legislation.” Barbara Shaw, a town camp resident in Alice Springs

NACCHO: Mr Rudd today is the day to sign
http://www.naccho.org.au/Files/Documents/Media_Release_re_International_Human_Rights_Day_10122007.pdf
10 Dec 07: “We still have not had a clear message on what this government is going to do about the Northern Territory emergency intervention which was and is an assault on our human rights if there ever was one. We continue to hear statements such as ‘we need to let it continue for some time to see if it is working’. Sorry this has taken away our rights. Even if it ‘works’ at some level it is still
unacceptable to the Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory and must be rejected in its entirety.” Dr Mick Adams Chairperson of the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO)

Sydney Indymedia: WGAR urges PM to place a Moratorium on Northern Territory Intervention
http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/story/wgar-urges-pm-place-moratorium-northern-territory-intervention
7 Dec 07: “In a letter to the PM and Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, the Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (WGAR) strongly recommends that the Federal government takes immediate steps to undo the harm of the NT Intervention which is negatively impacting on the lives of Aboriginal people in the NT.”

OPINION:

Medical News Today UK: Northern Territory Intervention - Help Or Hindrance? Australia
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/90818.php
9 Dec 07: “The Government’s Northern Territory Intervention, aimed at improving health and living conditions in Indigenous communities, has been met with mixed reviews in a collection of articles published in the latest Medical Journal of Australia.”

The Medical Journal of Australia: December Contents: Northern Territory Intervention
[scroll down page] http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/187_11_031207/contents_031207.html
Dec 07: A collection of articles on the NT intervention

eMJA: The Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory: engaging with the intervention to improve primary health care
http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/187_11_031207/bof11305_fm.html
8 Dec 07: “The emergency intervention came from left field. The health component, like the intervention as a whole, got off to a bad start. … its initial implementation was profoundly disempowering to many Aboriginal people in an environment where disempowerment and loss of identity lie at the root of community dysfunction. … It is also vitally important that the racially discriminatory aspects of the intervention, … be repealed”

PANEL DISCUSSION:

Sacred or Profane? The Australian Government’s Intervention in Aboriginal Communities
2 Dec 07: Listen to the discussion on-line: http://www.cvillepodcast.com/2007/12/07/sacred-or-profane-the-australian-governments-intervention-in-aboriginal-communities/
Read a summary of the main points: http://homepage.mac.com/will_owen/iblog/C2062160667/E20071208111506/

Indigenous radio station 98.9FM
Let’s Talk - Australia’s only Indigenous presented talkback:
http://989fm.com.au/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=29
: “Interviews with ”
Listen to these interviews on-line:

YOU TUBE:

Documentary on the NT intervention
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=V6HmaDe1DS4
“The Australian Government has passed two major legislations in the past twelve months that have demolished aboriginal rights, relating to land, culture and self-determination.”

NEWS:

NIT: NT intervention misconceived and poorly planned: former judge
http://www.nit.com.au/breakingNews/story.aspx?id=13623
11 Dec 07: “A retired Federal Court judge has labelled the former government’s intervention into Northern Territory Indigenous communities as misconceived and poorly planned. … He [Ron Merkel, QC] said the intervention could be considered a fundamental breach of human rights.”

ABC: Land council labels NT intervention ‘discriminatory’
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/11/2115232.htm?site=idx-nt
11 Dec 07: “A peak Indigenous group has backed suggestions the Commonwealth’s intervention in the Northern Territory is discriminatory.”

NIT: Better Indigenous participation needed in intervention: HREOC
http://www.nit.com.au/breakingNews/story.aspx?id=13612
10 Dec 07: “The Commonwealth intervention into Northern Territory Aboriginal communities will fail unless the new government takes steps to improve Indigenous people’s participation in it, a new human rights report says. … measures in the intervention that bypass racial discrimination laws have put Australia’s proud human rights reputation at risk.”

NIT: Intervention “created a mess” but can work: NLC
http://www.nit.com.au/breakingNews/story.aspx?id=13619
10 Dec 07: “The Howard government’s intervention in Northern Territory Aboriginal communities has “created a mess” but it can be made to work, the Northern Land Council (NLC) says.”

Age: High Court challenge to NT intervention
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/high-court-challenge-to-nt-intervention/2007/12/07/1196813026893.html
8 Dec 07: “THE constitutional challenge that former indigenous affairs minister Mal Brough warned could destroy the emergency intervention in the Northern Territory is expected to go before the full bench of the High Court in March.”

Australian: Senate to block NT permits
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22889394-5006790,00.html
8 Dec 07: “THE Rudd Government’s plan to reinstate permits to access Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory could be derailed for at least six months by a hostile Coalition-dominated Senate.”

Australian: No time for dreaming
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22887742-5013172,00.html
8 Dec 07: “A POISONED chalice and a perfect chance: the new Labor Government’s first great domestic policy challenge is looming before Kevin Rudd in all its charged complexity.”

ABC: Scrymgour wants intervention funding maintained
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/07/2112480.htm?site=idx-nt
7 Dec 07: “The Northern Territory’s Indigenous Policy Minister says she will lobby for the level of intervention funding to be maintained when she meets her federal counterpart next week.”

ABC: Intervention blamed for rises in drunks
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/07/2112470.htm?site=idx-nt
7 Dec 07: “The Territory Government is blaming the Commonwealth intervention for a rise in public drunkenness has probably increased since the intervention.”

Australian: Intervention finder’s fee row
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22883978-2702,00.html
7 Dec 07: “DOCTORS have attacked the Australian Medical Association amid revelations it negotiated a deal for two associated companies to be paid a $1300 “placement fee” from public funds for every doctor they help to recruit for the federal Government’s indigenous intervention scheme.”

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]]> by: john http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2007/11/24/im-from-a-long-time-ago/#comment-123 Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:03:02 +0000 http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2007/11/24/im-from-a-long-time-ago/#comment-123 yes, Bandt did passably well for the greems. Reason to be cheerful I do suppose - awwww. We will of course be admonished for not being happy happy happy. Have already spent 'quality time' I should not waste trying to fend off several messages congratulating *me (ie well done *John - ie *Australians in general) for finally getting rid of Howard (my vote is not in the post - not to Benelong nor anywhere else). As if Rudd is any sort of achievement. And that Maxine Medium* got all the publicity over here. We've decided the Goverment in Exile Office must remain open for business. Welcome back. jxhn yes, Bandt did passably well for the greems. Reason to be cheerful I do suppose - awwww. We will of course be admonished for not being happy happy happy. Have already spent ‘quality time’ I should not waste trying to fend off several messages congratulating *me (ie well done *John - ie *Australians in general) for finally getting rid of Howard (my vote is not in the post - not to Benelong nor anywhere else). As if Rudd is any sort of achievement. And that Maxine Medium* got all the publicity over here. We’ve decided the Goverment in Exile Office must remain open for business.

Welcome back. jxhn

]]> by: az http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2007/09/21/the-surrealpolitik-of-race-in-australia/#comment-122 Tue, 25 Sep 2007 03:50:51 +0100 http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2007/09/21/the-surrealpolitik-of-race-in-australia/#comment-122 both stories are unbelievable and bizarre. minstrels is right. and apparently it's okay to treat aboriginal people to their faces as if they are children and must be protected. yet another really creepy signification of 'little children are sacred'... both stories are unbelievable and bizarre. minstrels is right. and apparently it’s okay to treat aboriginal people to their faces as if they are children and must be protected. yet another really creepy signification of ‘little children are sacred’…

]]> by: Ana http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2007/09/19/redfern/#comment-121 Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:07:23 +0100 http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2007/09/19/redfern/#comment-121 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Redfern-Waterloo/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Redfern-Waterloo/

]]> by: woooo http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2007/09/19/redfern/#comment-120 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:48:38 +0100 http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2007/09/19/redfern/#comment-120 http://lists.perthimc.asn.au/pipermail/blackgreensolidarity/2007-September/001719.html http://lists.perthimc.asn.au/pipermail/blackgreensolidarity/2007-September/001719.html

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