Honi Soit's Election Manifesto

Don’tDon’t VoteVote Liberal*Liberal* * Or Labor, Tree-Tory Greens, One Nation, Fraser Anning’s Conservative National Party, UNITED AUSTRALIA PARTY, Christian Democratic party, Love Australia or Leave Australia, Australian Protectionist Party, sustainable australia, yellow Vest Australia, Katter’s Australia Party, Anti-vaxxers, australian better families, etc. Honi soit’s election manifesto Contents The Northern Territory on the grounds of protecting Aboriginal Editorial Intervention children from child abuse. They relied on the suspension of the Racial Discrimination Introduced by: The Coalition and Act 1975, effectively denying Indigenous This edition is a biased analysis of There are undoubtedly positive 3 // First Nations Policy in continued by the Australian Labor Party. Australians protections from discrimination Australia issues relevant to the upcoming policies adopted by the Australian Involved Governments: Howard, Rudd, afforded to every other Australian citizen. federal election, written by students Labor Party. But those policies have Gillard. Despite the absence of any data to demonstrate with political positions. not and never will be premised on 4 // Voter Suppression Laws Years: 2007- present. the benefits of these measures, and a range When it comes to issues of morality. The currency of change Overview: The Northern Territory of criticisms from various human rights rights for communities which have, is ballots, not ethics. Our article Intervention constituted a set of discriminatory organisations, the ALP chose to continue 6 // Running for Parliament as at best, been ignored and, more on voter suppression laws will laws in which the Howard Government this host of discriminatory measures a student realistically, been actively targeted demonstrate how those ballots have banned the sale and consumption of alcohol through the “Stronger Futures Act” (2012). by successive Labor and Coalition been stolen from Australia’s most in Indigenous communities, excluded The policy is emblematic of the bi-partisan governments, there is no benefit vulnerable communities. 7 // Diaries of our Policy Makers cultural factors as a relevant consideration in support for the destruction of Aboriginal tip-toeing some centrist path. Of course, in writing this we do sentencing and bail decisions and compulsorily Communities in contemporary Australia. Its However, before any not forget that greater evils than acquired leases over declared Aboriginal land. psychological and social effects persist to this impassioned boot-licker looking Labor and the Coalition exist in The package of measures was justified day. Make your to climb the party ladder feigns the Australian political landscape. outrage, we remind them that Parties standing for all forms of vote count merely pointing to the existence of oppression are running in this possible bias does not undermine election. But to think their existence House of Representatives: an argument. We refuse to take in isolation is folly. They are part This ballot contains a vertical list empty accusations of bias from the of a broader system of hegemony, of candidates. This is compulsory, puppets of establishment politicians which both major parties actively preferential voting. Every box seriously. participate in and reap the benefits First Nations Policy in must be numbered to reflect who In writing this, we aim to shed of. As the profile in this edition you’d like to be elected. Don’t be a light on the self-assured hubris of reflects, when young people attempt galah: check you have not repeated career politicians whose conscience to affect change, they are met with Contemporary Australia or skipped any numbers. feeds on collective amnesia the full powers of nationalistic, regarding the subjugation they have conservative vitriole — we hope this Senate: wrought. We hope that the article does not deter new generations. Quite a large piece of paper. You on First Nations policy reveals We encourage readers of this can either vote above or below just some the hypocrisy shared by election edition to consider a whole the horizontal line. If you vote members of parliament across all range of alternative options that are above the line, you need to at least parties. available to them. number tbe boxes 1 to 6. If you vote below the line, you need to number at least 12 boxes. Do not number boxes both above and below the Acknowledgement of Country Treaty with First Closing the Gap line. Nations Peoples The Federal Election selects a Parliament for an illegitimate settler-colonial Vote #1 the party you like the state. The Australian project has slaughtered First Nations people, taken ALP Stance : In the upcoming elections the Introduced by : The Australian Labor Party most, not who you think will children, incarcerated, and erased language and culture. Both major parties ALP has given its support to a treaty. and continued by The Coalition. get in. Giving a party your first carry on a legacy of dispossession. Coalition Stance: The coalition does not Involved governments: Rudd, Gillard, preference gives them $2.756! The Parliament House stands upon on stolen land — three nations have a support a treaty. Abbott, Turbull, and Morrison. Australian Electoral Commission connection to the land now called Canberra: the Ngunnawal, Ngambri and Record: No government from either party to Overview: Closing the Gap refers to a series funds parties that receive at least Ngambri-Guumal people. date has ever entered into a treaty with First of targets established to reduce inequalties four per cent of the total first When a new cohort of parliamentarians is elected, there will likely Nations peoples. faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander preferences in the election. be very few First Nations representatives among them, nor will there be Overview: A treaty with First Nations communities in terms of health, life expectancy, many who will go on to wholeheartedly facilitate decolonisation. For 47 Peoples would be significant in terms of mortality, education, and employment. It makes Honi suggests that after exhausting years and counting, a Tent Embassy has stood in some form or another recognising the sovereignty of First Nations, no mention of incarceration rates despite your preferences on ideologically adjacent to Parliament House, demanding reparations, genuine land rights, providing rights and assurances in terms of Australia’s Indigenous population being one admirable parties, you preference and honest legal protection. Over time, members have been violently self-determination and recognising Australia’s of the world’s most incarcated groups. 3% of Labor above the Liberal party. removed by police, and the embassy temporarily taken down. It still not subjugation of First Nations Peoples. Treaties Australia’s population is Aboriginal compared Preference both above the sweep considered an official embassy by the Australian government. have been called for since at least the 1970s. to 28% of the prison population. of racist, homophobic, ruling-class When you approach the ballot box this weekend, remember: your In 1988 the ALP’s Hawke Government Beyond its failure to recognise gaps in parties in this election, even less democratic empowerment requires the disempowerment of First Nations’ promised to enter into a treaty but ultimately incarcertation, many of the targets have not deserving of federal parliament. self-determination. You should vote accordingly. never delivered on this. been met by ALP and Coalition governments 2 3 Five staff were fired from the recently enacted in a number of marginal seats. Recent polling has Enrolment Branch, and four in the conservative American states, demonstrated that age is more Indigenous Participation and Voter which many have accused of important than political ideology in Education Branch. In the face of disproportionately disenfranchising terms of determining the likelihood countless communities that lack people of colour and poorer voters. someone supports action on climate the infrastructure to cast a vote, Unsurprisingly, a study of the change. these cuts can only represent state Queensland requirements found negligence, and arguably, malice. them to have excluded more Voter Most worryingly, enrolling voters in Indigenous and remote approximately 20,000 people communities. More generally, would easily swing a close election. turnout in the 2015 election saw the Although Labor MP Warren lowest Queensland turnout rates In these ways and many more, Snowden has held the seat for since 1980. Australian elites manufacture Suppression decades, Jacinta Price, Warlpiri and Despite this drop in turnout, participation in elections, shoring Celtic woman and Country Liberals the federal Coalition has continued up their continued hegemony and candidate, is expected to closely contest much of conservative urban Lingiari. One’s right to vote is contingent on their Laws However, poor engagement is right to have their vote genuinely facilitated harmful regardless of the influenced election result. Parties are left with less impetus to make adversarial to consider such reforms. This is in protecting their interests. Electorate and Liam Thorne Nina Dillon- Britton policy for many of the communities spite of consensus amongst electoral boundaries are moved, just like living around the poverty-line experts that voter fraud is essentially America. We void the rights of across the NT. One’s right to vote non-existent. Whilst it is difficult to prisoners with sentences greater is contingent on

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