The Daily Blog Open Mic – Thursday – 9th July 2020
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Would not want to be in Aus at the moment. I spoke to someone there by phone last night. They’re outside of Melbourne, and what is happening there right now is unlike anything that’s happened over there before. Incredible speed with which the military moved in and locked everything down. We in Aotearoa really do not know how lucky we are!!!
They practised on the Aborigines some years ago, sending the military in to organise and control them.
Under John Howard in 2007.
Initial 2007 – https://intercontinentalcry.org/australian-government-imposes-military-police-regime-on-aborigines/
Review 2017 – https://theconversation.com/ten-years-on-its-time-we-learned-the-lessons-from-the-failed-northern-territory-intervention-79198
But Note the similarity in Dates – I hadn’t realised this before. There must have been some propinquity.
NZ 2007: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_New_Zealand_police_raids
This is NOT Covid is it????
Winston to be Hospitalised
Rio Tinto’s Tiwai Point is set to close: Tiwai Point Smelter to Close
Hopefully that will allow for lower electricity bills for everyone in NZ!
(good riddance)