Hooray for Melbourne::

http://theage.com.au/national/victoria/thousands-gather-in-melbourne-cbd-for-walk-for-yes-rally-20230917-p5e593.html

Just one of many rallies taking place around Australia.

Quote: "Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) (1920–1993), black rights activist, poet, environmentalist, and educator, was born Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska on 3 November 1920 at Bulimba, Brisbane, second youngest of seven children of Edward (Ted) Ruska, labourer, and his wife Lucy, née McCullough. Ted was a Noonuccal descendant, and Lucy was born in central Queensland, the daughter of an inland Aboriginal woman and a Scottish migrant. Lucy, at ten years of age, was placed in an institution in Brisbane, and at fourteen years of age, without the skills to read or write, was consigned to work as a housemaid in rural Queensland.

Ruska’s childhood home was One Mile on North Stradbroke Island or Minjerribah—as it was known by the island’s traditional owners, the Noonuccal. The settlement, on the outskirts of Dunwich, was the setting for Kath’s earliest memories of hunting wild parrots, fishing, boating, and sharing in the community dugong catch. In 1934, at thirteen, she completed her formal education at Dunwich State School. The family, like many enduring the Depression, could not afford the nurses’ training her older sister had received. She left home for Brisbane to work as a domestic for board and lodging, and less pay than white domestics received, but armed with the ability to read and a talent for writing."

She has a normal life in the 1920 - 1960 for a woman, my mother worked on a Cattle Station as a House maid during that same period, mainly for board and lodgings.

Foxy,

So you admire this drug addled wife beater and murderer purely because he was an activist? Considering the approbriation heaped on coalition MPs for minor or even imagined infractions this is a joke and shows up the left whingers' deeply double standards.

Josephus,

Thank you for giving us more information about Kath
Walker. I came across her when I studied Australian
poetry and was given the task of compiling an
Anthology. I admired her writing.

Shadow Minister,

Regarding Kevin Gilbert? I came across him while
studying Australian poetry at Uni. and included him
in my anthology. I was not aware of his activism at the
time. It was his writing that was my focus I
admire not only his writing but the way he was able to turn his life around against all odds.

Judging from all the accolades that he's received in this
country - I'm not the only one who doesn't judge him for
the mistake he made in his youth and for which he paid.

Shadow Minister,

Ned Kelly and his gang?

Heroes or murderers?

How did their lives pan out?

Shadow Minister,

You stated:

"Considering the appropriation heaped on Coalition MPs
for minor or even imagined infractions it is a joke
and shows up the left whingers deeply double standards."

You mean the ones who stood in front of "ditch the witch"
and "Juliar - Bob Brown's bitch" signs?
Or perhaps you're referring to when the Coalition was in
government - the Abbott, Turnbull, and Morrison government's
escalating series of missteps and scandals relating to
women?

Sex and power culminating and leaving government
reeling and millions of Australian women wondering if the
governments were listening to them?

Perhaps you're referring to Mal Brough's fund-raiser
that spruiked "Julia Gillard's "small breasts" on the menu?
Then we have the Coalition staffer who masturbated on the
desk of a female MP.

People like James Briggs, quitting for inappropriate behaviour.
Of course there's Barnaby Joyce and his affair with a staffer.
He was Deputy PM at the time.
There's the chair-sniffer, there's George Christensen,
Alan Tudge, Christian Porter, Andrew Broad, and the list goes on.

All minor infractions you say?

Okkay! Shades of the Born to Rule mentality - we get it!