I take a break from lolpopes to bring you this:
Olympia, now aged 11 says she is proud of the photos and the Prime Minister’s comments are out of line.
“I’m really really offended by what Kevin Rudd said,” she said.
Genius.
“A national framework for child protection is necessary, we can do better and must do better for the protection of our little children.” - Kevin Rudd.
Having worked with the child protection system I am much less excited about this comment than I should be were I to take the above comment at face value. A national framework has been advocated for years as a very basic policy intervention, and always seems to end up being hijacked for other violently paternalistic ends (if it’s not how such Interventions start off in the first place).
“Little children” really are the ultimate signifier into which to empty out all sorts of misdirected rubbish.
Australians are a tough people, a people of mateship, who can handle anything but Change. CHANGE WILL RUIN US ALL! Especially a Change as drastic as going from this:
To this unknown, untried, offbeat, off the freakin’ planet option:
Gayatri Spivak with the first entry: “White men are saving brown women from brown men” (how did she know, all the way back in 1987?).
(Update 28/06: NTMD - Now With Tags !@!4!!)
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