Krista O'Connor

🖤❤️💛 Kalkadoon 💛❤️🖤 teacher / project manager | post-grad student | ru player |

[Krista O'Connor @wombat_krista]

Fill in the blanks...
In health, “racism can be life threatening”
In education, racism can be ________
#NATSIEC2018

[Krista O'Connor @wombat_krista]

They were probably black too....

[Krista O'Connor @wombat_krista]

So true ... it’s the difference between valuing something for what IT IS versus what it can do for you

[IndigenousX @IndigenousX]

Indigenous knowledges are holistic. It works within a series of interconnected relationships. Fire management can’t be extracted from the whole and be expected to work. It only works as part of a complete system, one which values relationships in a way that Aus isn’t ready for...

[Toby Adams @tobyadams_]

Extremely grateful to be invited by my deadly friends at @TCEO to MC their State Indigenous Education Conference this week. An absolute honour to spend time with Aunty Miriam Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann and for our wonderful friend Gail Mabo to come and share stories of her Dad & Mum.

[Krista O'Connor @wombat_krista]

Dave Hartley: Moving the conversation away from the depths of gaps in NAPLAN data to fostering culturally safe learning environments
#wisdomandcourage2019

[Krista O'Connor @wombat_krista]

“My ceiling has become his floor” - Sharon Davis ... parent, teacher, mentor .... enacting positive inter generational change 🖤💛❤️
#wisdomandcourage2019

[Krista O'Connor @wombat_krista]

Seriously this time:
4. Ask yourself who benefits from the racist portrayal of Indigenous Australians? It’s not FNPs ... does it sell newspapers? Does it ease colonial guilt? Does it perpetuate prison systems or pubs?
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5/5

[Krista O'Connor @wombat_krista]

#NAIDOC week means blac attack on my TV, starting tonight with the first season of First Contact (prev watched the 2nd season)

My excellent ideas 💡 in a thread:
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1/5

[Krista O'Connor @wombat_krista]

3. Imagine, in your everyday life, Hugo Weaving narrating times when people “were about to have their views challenged” ie, were wrong and acting like d-bags
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4/5

[Krista O'Connor @wombat_krista]

You may be able to SYMPATHISE but unless this your identity, experience, or culture, you won’t be able to EMPATHISE

[Krista O'Connor @wombat_krista]

Careful, your privilege is showing 💁🏽‍♀️

[Krista O'Connor @wombat_krista]

So basically she got off with no jail time because...
- the money was repaid
- it was used to benefit her family
- “excellent moral character”
🤯🤯🤯

[Krista O'Connor @wombat_krista]

Also, if you split $750,000 between the stated 7,000 donors refunded by GoFundMe, that gives an average of $100
... not a fortune, but I’m betting it’s much more than your “average” Australian could spare 💵

[Krista O'Connor @wombat_krista]

Can we stop pretending this is about giving voice to “quiet Australians”
...
Christianity is an extremely powerful base, as evidenced by the $1M fronted to support an opinion

[9News Queensland @9NewsQueensland]

JUST IN: A new fundraising campaign for Israel Folau launched by the Australian Christian Lobby has just reached $1 million.
https://t.co/ieHIopOpWo #9News

[Krista O'Connor @wombat_krista]

So with Tony Abbot out, will we get a new Envoy? Asking for a friend...

[Kat 🐈 @kathyktr]

Thread: I know it seems a bit of ‘fun’ to disparage Queenslanders because of the poor Labor showing, but I & many others stood for hours handing out HTV’s in our red shirts & these comments are hurtful. As a Katter Country (Kennedy) elector I’m used to never seeing your candidate

[Sarah🇵🇸🇱🇧Climate🦜Deep ecology🌳 @clearticulation]

@AnthonyCole68 @tallandtrue @AustralianLabor and @greens need to reform the electoral system to proportional representation of 1 vote = 1 value. This BS inequitable system is the death of Australia. Why is this still tolerated? LNP 8.4% vote = 23 seats. Greens 10% vote = 1 seat. NZ has reformed, #auspol now

[Senator Briggs (Biblically Accurate) @Briggs]

No biggie, Blackfullas are used to disappointment in other Australians. We get let down all the time. The rest of you get let down every 3 years or so. #Auspol

[Krista O'Connor @wombat_krista]

@mdavisqlder The advertising was pervasive ... billboards, TV, radio, Facebook, newspaper ... do we have rules about how advertising is used for political purposes? If not, maybe something to consider 🤔