About 130 people attended the Socialist Alliance election launch in Sydney on April 15. The night launched the campaign to elect Peter Boyle in the seat of Sydney and the Senate team of Ken Canning, Susan Price, Sharlene Leroy-Dyer and Howard Byrnes. It was a very positive night with Aboriginal activists, unionists and activists signing on to the People's Movement.
Sharlene Leroy-Dyer
The Socialist Alliance released this statement on March 30.
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Ken Canning, lead Senate candidate for Socialist Alliance in the federal election described the Daily Telegraph's condemnation of the University of NSW's Diversity Toolkit 鈥 guidelines for appropriate language to describe Indigenous history 鈥 as 鈥渢he usual type of Neanderthal reporting鈥.
鈥淣ews.com slams the term 'invasion' when referring to James Cook's arrival in 1770.
鈥淒oes the Daily Telegraph seriously think Aboriginal people laid out the red carpet for him?
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull began the annual Prime Minister's 鈥渃losing the gap鈥 speech on February 10 with a few lines in the Ngunnawal language. But, as an Aboriginal woman, all I heard was more Turnbullshit.
鈥淲e recognise that prior to the arrival of European settlers, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians spoke hundreds of languages and over 600 dialects," he said. In my mind this means that, despite the Mabo High Court judgement of 1992, he still believes Australia was "settled".