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Significant changes were made to 50 of Queensland's 93 electorates by the independent Queensland Redistribution Commission (QRC).

Stretton is a Labor seat and Hill is KAP - the third time ShaneKnuth has lost his seat through redistribution.

This could also spell trouble for Meaghan Scanlon in Gaven

Erasing Indigenous electoral names too: changing Maiwar to Indooroopilly, Oodgeroo to Cleveland

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Let no-one say the past is dead, the past is all about us and within.

Oodgeroo Noonuccal

Quote for today. Studying Australian history right found this decided it was true and it needed to be shared.

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'Intolerance' When the white glug contemptuously Says 'nigger', it is plain to me He is of lower grade than me. When the dark stockman, used to hate, Is not accepted as a mate, Democracy is empty prate. When we hear from the white elite 'We don't have abos in our street,' Their Christianity's a cheat. When blacks are banned, as we know well, From city cafe and hotel, The stink of Little Rock we smell. Dark children coming home in tears, Hurt and bewildered by their jeers - I think Christ weeps with you, my dears. People who say, by bias driven, What colour must not be forgiven, Would snub the Carpenter in heaven. -- Oodgeroo (My People, 1970)

I've been reading Oodgeroo's My People recently and today I came upon this poem. In light of what's been happening in the US regarding Michael Brown, it feels particularly appropriate to post it.

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Born Kathleen Jean Mary Walker, Oodgeroo Noonuccal (3 November 1920 – 16 September 1993) was instrumental in winning the vote for Indigenous people. She is one of Australia's most respected poets and a noted educator and political activist, who fought to improve conditions for her people.

Oodgeroo was elected Queensland State Secretary for the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI) in 1962. She worked tirelessly towards gaining equal opportunities and equal citizenship for Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. In a paper delivered to the FCAATSI conference in 1969, Oodgeroo called for collective Indigenous action in order to achieve basic rights:

"[w]hen you leave this conference and go back to your rat holes — rat holes you call your homes, that you have inherited from the Australian society, unite your people and bring them out fighting." (Political Rights for Aborigines, FCAATSI Conference, 5 April 1969, p. 4. UQFL84, Box 30)

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