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3 weeks ago | 
crikey.com.au | Celeste Liddle
There is absolutely nothing surprising about the career trajectory of Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price. As a longtime observer of her, I was congratulated the other day because my predictions about her current predicament have been bang on. But Price has made no secrets of her goals. Indeed, she has been incredibly consistent, and perhaps the surprise lies more in who she is — a reactionary right Indigenous figure going for the top positions — than anything she has done.
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2 months ago | 
crikey.com.au | Celeste Liddle
It wouldn’t be an Australian election without a culture war erupting in a bid to score votes, or without Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people being used as a political football. Yet, here we are again, days out from the next government being decided, and instead of actual policies being discussed, certain political leaders are grandstanding about Welcome to Country ceremonies.
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Mar 28, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | Celeste Liddle |Melissa Fisher |Steven Herrick
The two-party system needs to be broken‘The two-party system needs to be broken and voters’ voices need to be heard,’ says Celeste Liddle. Photograph: Michael Currie/SOPA ImagesWhen it comes to this election, I am uninspired. All around me, particularly in the aftermath of the US election, I hear panic that a Peter Dutton-led government will be our equivalent here. This sentiment fails to have an impact on me. It assumes, for example, that the government has a moral high ground.
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Feb 19, 2025 | 
archermagazine.com.au | Celeste Liddle
They press a buttonAnd this country looks awayPress a buttonAnother death another dayShifting sands wipe conscious mindsTo global warfare they turn blindThey press their buttonsThey press their buttons– Celeste Liddle – ‘Golf Balls’, 2024An unusual fact about me is that, unlike most other Aboriginal people, I am just Arrernte.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
msn.com | Celeste Liddle
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | Celeste Liddle
The hullabaloo around “Australia Day” started early this year. It was barely the beginning of December 2024 when outrage columns and Sky News Australia video clips were raging about a chain of pubs apparently “banning” Australia Day celebrations. Never mind that these establishments did nothing of the sort. They simply stated that they were not going to be holding Australia Day events themselves – there was never any indication they intended on turning away flag-wearing fools from sinking a lager.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
crikey.com.au | Celeste Liddle
Racism and reverse racism. Misogyny and misandry. Homophobia and heterophobia. I have heard a lot of false equivalences touted in my time, yet none quite as stark as the false equivalency the federal government managed to manufacture earlier this week when they decided to censure both Senator Lidia Thorpe and Senator Ralph Babet concurrently for transgressions they claimed warranted such action.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
msn.com | Celeste Liddle
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Celeste Liddle
Lidia Thorpe is not one to adhere to respectability politics. She may work in the major house of respectability politics, but as she has been clear from the time she set foot in any parliamentary building, she grew up working class, came from a background of activist politics, and is incredibly proud of these humble, yet powerful, roots.
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Oct 13, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Celeste Liddle
A year has passed since the ill-fated voice referendum. In that time, and indeed in the time leading up to the referendum itself, I repeatedly expressed my views. There was so much that was wrong with the process, that was dehumanising, and that was distressing about the entire situation. But while Indigenous community members have had to pick up the pieces, regroup and begin discussions about the way forward, the majority of Australia has maintained the status quo.
