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Ethnonationalists sure love DARVO.

Figured better to link this page but the meat is in the linked PDFs. The critical explainer in particular doesn’t pull the punches.

Harm from displacement and community fragmentation: In the midst of a cost-of-living crisis, more than 10,000 people have just been thrown into a very uncertain future knowing that they will be displaced and their communities broken up. The harmful effects of displacement on health, wellbeing, social connection, and life opportunity are well known. Displacement of low-income communities is known internationally to cause serious harm and death.

Figured better to link this page but the meat is in the linked PDFs. The critical explainer in particular doesn’t pull the punches.

Harm from displacement and community fragmentation: In the midst of a cost-of-living crisis, more than 10,000 people have just been thrown into a very uncertain future knowing that they will be displaced and their communities broken up. The harmful effects of displacement on health, wellbeing, social connection, and life opportunity are well known. Displacement of low-income communities is known internationally to cause serious harm and death.

From the Human Rights Commission: https://humanrights.gov.au/about/news/media-releases/human-rights-commissioner-critical-covid-inquiry-scope

With the tower sites they’re already flagging that it’ll only be about 1/3 public with the rest commercial meaning how much land is retained is in question. At a minimum public housing priorities will lose any strata vote.

There are good reasons not to build monolithic public housing but communities need to be retained and it would mean the scale would need to be even bigger. As it is it won’t even cover the wait lists.

There’s zero trust in this government when it comes to public housing and mostly for well founded reasons.

Considering the US far right’s evident interest in insurrection it’s almost a little surprising this wasn’t the lead case. The more non-white military officers the more difficult it would be for US fascists to put together an openly white supremacist coup.

It’s difficult to have any faith in this government taking public housing needs seriously after how it has behaved since installation. Everything thus far has prioritised developers and shown near zero regard for community and amenity for public housing residents.

Thanks for getting out into the streets today if you did. Remember that win or lose there's going to be much to be done beyond October 14. Stay active, please. You'll be needed.

Outrage at the accusation of racism would require an understanding that racism is abhorrent. From the likes of Dutton, many of the figureheads of the reactionary No campaign, and from the commentators amplifying this supposed outrage from The Australian’s pages we have years - often decades - of behaviour and speech which suggests they do not possess that understanding.

Similarly, expect the networks and avenues of communication being built to be rolled into other areas as well. Trans rights, same sex marriage etc. will all be targets anew. Wouldn’t entirely be surprised if we started to see a push back against gun laws either.

We’ve had hints of this in the past but this is by far the most direct coupling between the US reactionary right and Australia’s.

Price has been in the CPAC orbit for a while now.

Nearly 40 per cent of Victoria’s prisoner population is housed in three privately managed prisons – Port Philip Prison, Ravenhall Correctional Centre and Fulham Correctional Centre. As a consequence, Victoria has the largest proportion of privately managed prisoners in Australia, while Australia has the largest proportion in the world.

https://lens.monash.edu/@politics-society/2019/06/28/1375605/victorias-prison-system-rising-costs-and-population-little-accountability

It’s absolutely central to why, right across the country, we’re doubling down on carceral approaches that we know increase offending rather than reducing it. There’s vested interests keen to ensure that.