My writing side hustle went on hiatus when I became a political candidate (bar one article which I nearly got into trouble for) and I haven't returned to it. Why? Because I realised I was writing the same articles over and over again and nothing changes in this racist colony. Something like:
1. Indigenous kid murdered by white person or killed by police action;
2. Aboriginal public figure hounded by press and racist public into submission;
3. Aboriginal woman killed in FVDV incident no one cares about;
4. Indigenous person upholds white status quo by selling out our activists. Gets elected "Aboriginal leader" by Murdoch Press;
5. How blatant racism isn't the only form of racism;
6. Policing and imprisonment as racist state apparatii;
Rinse and repeat. I hate this "sunburnt country".
So again, who knows if this blog will make a comeback or in what form? But I'm rebooting it to say this today.
PS I have also been off Twitter for nearly two months now. I don't miss it. So yes, have stepped back from commentary in a couple of ways.
