Rudi Maxwell
Writer and Senior Journalist at Australian Associated Press (AAP)
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1 week ago |
sbs.com.au | Rudi Maxwell
Pauline Hanson was once considered too racist and too right wing for the Liberal Party - but 30 years after her ill-informed comments about Aboriginal people and immigrants skyrocketed her to infamy, the Coalition has done a preference deal with One Nation. In 1996 little-known political aspirant Pauline Hanson was preselected for the Liberal Party for the Queensland electorate of Oxley, considered a safe Labor seat.
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2 weeks ago |
sbs.com.au | Rudi Maxwell
The Liberal Party is the biggest donor to a right wing lobby group behind a campaign against Welcome to Country ceremonies, which has ramped up in the final days of the federal election campaign. The Cormack Foundation - a multimillion dollar investment company for the Liberal Party - donated $500,000 in the past financial year to online group Advance, which is running a campaign against government spending on Welcome to Country ceremonies, which cost roughly $150,000 per year.
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2 weeks ago |
sbs.com.au | Rudi Maxwell
From a hung parliament to a donkey vote - and don't get those two mixed up - sometimes the language used around elections can seem at best confusing and at worst designed to exclude or turn people off. Here's some explanations to turn you into an instant expert - and you don't even have to ask Google or AI. READ MOREIt is compulsory to vote in Australia, so you can be fined if you don’t. But it is also one of the only real chances you get to make your voice heard.
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3 weeks ago |
sbs.com.au | Rudi Maxwell
For the saltwater people of Gamay (Botany Bay), their Sea Country - and the health of it - holds a special place. On Wednesday the La Perouse Local Aboriginal Land Council launched its inaugural Gamay Sea Country Plan, a community-led vision for how to work together to care for the local Country.
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3 weeks ago |
sbs.com.au | Rudi Maxwell
After more than 40 years of fighting to have Country returned to the Wakaya and Alyawarre peoples, Eileen Bonney was pretty happy to hold the deed of grant in her hands. In 1980, the Central Land Council lodged a land claim on behalf of Wakaya and Alyawarre people in the Barkly region of the Northern Territory.
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