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Nova Peris became the first Aboriginal Australian to win an Olympic gold medal as part of the Hockeyroos in Atlanta 1996 and the first Australian mother to win gold since 1956.
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Australia's First Aboriginal Woman elected to Federal Parliament.
Since the mid-1990s, Nova Peris has been a strong advocate for Aboriginal people, visiting hundreds of communities to understand their challenges. Using her platform in Federal Parliament, she amplified the voices of those often unheard and made a profound, positive impact on young Aboriginal lives through both her words and actions.
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🕊️ Vale Ms D. Maymuru (Burarrwanga)
22 May 1967 ~ 18 December 2025 🙏🏾
The family is waiting and preparing for you to come home tomorrow, Friday 9 January.
Our hearts remain broken 💔as we continue to grieve your immeasurable loss.
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Cathy Wilcox — one word: ‘Pathetic’
We are not mindless drones.
We are independent, critical thinkers who love Australia 🇦🇺 Our Australia.
Many of us spoke publicly after this national tragedy out of a commitment to justice and a determination to confront terrorism, not excuse it.
To portray Australians from across professions who call for accountability as agents of Jews or Israel is vile, dehumanising, and deeply insulting to families who watched their loved ones & innocent people hunted with military-grade weapons by Islamist terrorists.
These families did not lose loved ones to a cartoon. They lost them to real violence. Real hatred. Real evil. Here. On our shores. At our iconic Bondi Beach.
This is how it has always begun.
With the lies. With mockery. With cartoons that strip Jews of humanity and agency, insinuating that Jewish suffering is exaggerated, manipulated, or politically manufactured.
This is the language of libels. And libels have always preceded pogroms.
For centuries, Jews were depicted as schemers and manipulators, as bribers, controllers, sub-human caricatures blamed even for their own deaths. These lies were never harmless. They created permission. And permission led to violence.
This cartoon sits squarely in that tradition.
It mocks the dead, grieving families, and Australians who stand up by portraying calls for accountability as obedience, corruption, and manipulation. Depicting supporters of a Royal Commission, including grieving families, next to a dog holding a sign ‘Dogs for RC’ being “rewarded” by unseen hand giving a bone is unmistakable dehumanisation. It’s sickening.
Mockery in the face of terror is not political insight. It is moral collapse.
History has seen this before. And it never ends well.
Do better for goodness sake and importantly for the safety and love of this great nation.
#RoyalCommission #Antisemitism #Terrorism #radicalislam