ABORIGINAL ANTI MONARCHY PROTESTERS SHRED, BLOOD AND BURN AUSTRALIAN FLAG

On National Day of Mourning for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

Australian Associated Press via Canberra Times, Launceston Examiner, Northwest Star and many other papers report September 22 2022
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7915082/protesters-demand-monarchy-be-abolished/

"Protesters demand monarchy be abolished"

The Australian flag has been covered in blood and burned at a series of anti-monarchy rallies across the country.

Protesters at Melbourne's Birrarung Marr cut up the flag and covered it in fake blood, while chanting "abolish the monarchy" in confronting scenes.

Greens senator Lidia Thorpe ["a proud DjabWurrung Gunnai Gunditjmara woman"] led hundreds of protesters of all ages and backgrounds taking a stand against colonisation on the Queen's National Day of Mourning.

"The Crown's boot is on our neck and we're sick of it," Senator Thorpe told the rally.

"Do you know we have over 20,000 Aboriginal children who have been stolen in 2022? And you want to mourn the coloniser who brought the pain and the genocide and the murders here to our people. Shame!"

The crowd then sat at the intersection of Flinders and Swanston streets while clutching Aboriginal flags and anti-monarchy signs, before marching to state parliament.

Senator Thorpe decried countless atrocities and human rights violations against First Nations people, and the high incarceration rates among Indigenous youths.

"While everyone mourns the Queen, we have 10-year-old babies trying to take their lives in Don Dale prison. We have to shut the child prisons down," she said.

In 2007, Indigenous youths accounted for 59 per cent of the total juvenile detention population, according to government records.

Last year, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prisoners made up 30 per cent of all prisoners.

The protests come amid calls for the Victorian government to raise the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to at least 14.

The Melbourne rally was one of multiple protests in Australia on Thursday.

...Activist groups Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance (WAR) and Fighting In Solidarity Towards Treaties are among those organising the demonstrations..."

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Foxy

You're in favour of racism, remember?

You're the one pushing for nationalist chauvinism, remember?

And I know the Constitution better than you do.

The monarchy is part of our historic truth.

Not a monarchist, but..... many on the fossil fueled nativist libertarian right in media and/or Tory politics, are already making noises about the need to have Charles refrain from making pro-environmental and anti-fossil. fuel statements.

Recently this was evidenced by an 'environmental NGO', maybe Population Matters UK, trying to persuade Charles that (immigrant led) population growth is the 'environment' issue; 'nativist libertarian trap'.

Cumberland,

I am not anti monarchy. I am pro Australian.
And I am not pushing for anything. I am one
person on a discussion forum expressing an
opinion and as I've stated it will be the Australian
people who will finally decide in which direction
the nation is going to go. Stop name calling and
sloganeering. Those arguments don't carry much
intellectual weight and are a sign of mental laziness.
Express your opinions - honestly without trying to
insult others. Otherwise they will respond in kind.

BTW: i'm awesome!