Reimagining our Foreign Policy: in Conversation with Penny Wong — Whitlam Institute Penny Wong, Labor’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs and Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, joined Whitlam Institute Director and former senior UN official Leanne Smith to talk about the future of Australia’s place in the world.

Been thinking a lot about last week’s @Whitlam_Inst conversation with #PennyWong about Reimagining our #ForeignPolicy & Prof Marcia Langton’s #FODI talk #DangerousFictions

Watch now if you missed out
#auspol #straya #leadership #politicalliteracy

There is evidence Indigenous peoples 120,000 years in Australia

Imagine having a connection to your land for that long and then being torn away from it, your people eradicated, and told to ‘get over it’

#whisperingofourheart
#FODI #DangerousFictions #race #racism #whiteness

It’s difficult for people from other countries, even Australians, to understand that the #BLM movement includes advocating for light skinned Indigenous people

Aborigines and settler
It is a particular type of racism, settler rage
#FODI #DangerousFictions
#whiteness #race

#Race powers in #legislation benefit ‘citizens’ to the detriment of Aboriginal people
#whiteness #racism #auspol #criticalracestudies

Ideas of race have evolved and changed from oppressive forms in the 18th / 19th C

#FODI #DangerousFictions