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\nDoes Dark Emu misrepresent early explorers and what is it like at local Labor Party branch meetings?
\nToday we will expand upon our Indigenous episode #213 from 30 July 2019 but before we do \u2026
\nQantas Hostie and Racism
\nWill.i.am accuses a Qantas hostie of racism. The Veronicas had an altercation on a Qantas flight and say it was the same hostie.
\nJessica and Lisa Origliasso, 34, told Confidential that they had flown with the airline for 15 years without incident prior to their stoush in September and they urged will.i.am not to retract his claims of racism after Qantas demanded the rapper do so following a separate incident.
\nThe twin sisters claimed the flight attendant who clashed with will.i.am is the same woman who they previously clashed with before they were escorted off a flight by police.
\nQantas has dismissed all claims as \u201cutterly untrue\u201d and asked will.i.am to retract his claim, however, Jess and Lisa say that he shouldn\u2019t have to do that.
\n\u201cNo. Why would he?\u201d said Jess.
\nLisa added: \u201cWe weren\u2019t there but we support him.\u201d
\nThey continued to speak highly of the rapper.
\nBut
\nThe Veronicas are of Italian descent on their father\u2019s side. They look pretty white. So that would indicate the hostie is not racist.
\nLangton attacks Flannery for holding ‘racist’ belief
\nFrom the SMH December 2012
\nIn her fourth Boyer lecture, an extract of which is published in today’s\u00a0Saturday Age, Professor Langton attacked Professor Flannery – a distinguished scientist, explorer and conservationist – for comments in his recent Quarterly Essay,\u00a0After the Future: Australia’s New Extinction Crisis, which she said suggested he believed land was not ”safe” if it was owned by Aboriginal people.
\n”Even under Labor governments with a strong green bent, national parks are not always safe. In 2010, the Queensland Bligh government began the process of degazetting a large part of Mungkan Kaanju National Park on Cape York Peninsula with a view to giving the land back to its traditional Aboriginal owners,” Professor Flannery wrote in the essay.
\nProfessor Langton, the foundation chair of Australian indigenous studies at the University of Melbourne, suggested Professor Flannery had succumbed to the ”environmental campaign ideology that Australia’s first people are the enemies of nature”.
\nBut Professor Flannery said Professor Langton had misunderstood his essay.
\nBronwyn’s Indigenous Episode Feedback
\nI like Bronwyn, she pushes back and disagrees but continues to listen.
\nShe is the only one who gave feedback.
\nBronwyn Said
\nPoint One.
\nYou have said before, and repeated in this episode, that you believe that people should receive special assistance or consideration due to disadvantage, not the colour of their skin \u2026 I put it to you that Indigenous people in Australia suffer disadvantage BECAUSE OF the colour of their skin. Even Indigenous people from urbanised and/or middle class backgrounds will suffer some level of discrimination or mistreatment because they look Aboriginal to white people, or because they assert their Indigenous status in some other way.
\nWhat does Marcia Langton say?
\nWho is Marcia Langton?
\nMarcia Langton is a leading academic and Indigenous spokesperson who has held the foundation chair of Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne since February 2000. An anthropologist with a BA from the Australian National University and a PhD in human geography from Macquarie University, who began her academic career in 1995 at the Northern Territory University in Darwin,","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/085762e2-797c-4ef4-9b10-434ecde61c07/logo2018v2.jpg"}