Christopher - Two Different Judgements in Australia ===
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Yep. When that thing happened. Yep. I've got time happened. Yep. It just, it was just the whole island. Yeah. And kids Yeah, for sure. Babies and whatever like that. Yep. But that's the end of the day, you know, that they should have got to ear. Mm.
Yeah. And what they've done, I, if you go on, I'll show you what happened. I King. Mm. I think, yeah, I saw that. Yeah. It was like, and it was the first time it ever happened like that, but Yep. And when it happened, that whole island. Mm, totally. And the snow, isn't that? Yeah.
Yeah. So that's what I'm doing here, trying to talk to people about it. [00:01:00] Know, like, like food, know food
like for the power too. Mm. But like don down gas, like gas down. Water, food that, yeah. You know, for some to drink or to eat you. Yep. Yeah.
Me was awful.
Yep. Yeah. Hey,
you wrong, but you, you didn't really, we didn't expect that when it happened. Uh. Something happens like that. You just start Yeah. Yeah. Tell us anything about Yeah. Happen. [00:02:00] Yeah. The whole hole. It was just dark. Mm. No street lights on. I'm saying when you.
But that's how it is. Yeah. But they, they've done better the car, see what happened. Mm. And never saw some cylinder. That's what, you know, we really need evacuate. So. Mm. Need right now. Things like that just put us there until the power from the farm. Yeah. The mainland got it. Yet we haven't got enough. True.
And a lot of aboriginal community throughout Australia haven't got that sort of facility. No, we haven't got it true yet. We're gonna go into the white cow. By the time we get in there we'll be dead. So true. Yeah. It's very boring from the government. [00:03:00] We people put 'em there. They don't even, they trade with other countries.
Yep. They don't look at their First nation living in Australia. Not only, yeah. Right Through Australia. We're not even looking at nothing. They don't even help us. We get no outcome. Nobody around the world look at First Nation. Mm yep. Right around the world. Mm. You when you walk out on the road there, did you look up the road at that facility?
The school teachers? Yep. Facility. They get compared to us. Yeah. And it's a big jump. Their facility is way up to date compared to ours, and they've got big fence around there. Uh, flu. Yeah, no, it's a big joke. Yeah. How the government look after me. White people in the Aboriginal community and the store is very dear.
Not only our stores, a lot of aboriginal community throughout Australia schools is there yet. [00:04:00] You go on the mainland, it's cheap. Get the money. Another thing broad, we gotta get right down and you go around and get dozens. Yeah. See, when you go on the mainland straight, they take your name back. I reckon there's two different judgment in Australia.
One for black, one for white. They take your name too. So the majority of our people in jail too. Mm. That's when you see black. Kind of sad, but um, yeah, you can only buy cutting rum, tell you the truth. I don't care if they stealing their cars and smash them. I don't blame our kids. They put 'em in that position.
Mm. Who provide the smoke? The white government Who provide the drugs. The white government. We had no drugs here in Australia who provide the alcohol. We had no alcohol. They bordered and they killed that. Nothing. We don't put a class action place against the government. You know, [00:05:00] people that tried. They did a lot of wrong things actually, mate.
They talk about Closing the gap. Yeah, closing the gap. There's the biggest gap there. Ha ha. It's a big joke. The government. So, and they want us to celebrate with 'em on, on Australia. No, no, no, no. That's invasion day for us. They came in to change everything around the whole Australia to change everything, even the names.
And I in these days here on Palm Island, if you got to court talking language ang, you get seven days in jail. So we were told to talk English and now we can't show our kids our culture and how they. It's sad. I don't, yeah. Put it here. Certain white fellas like you fellas come and talk like you fellows, but no, I don't like [00:06:00] the white government.
Mm. Yeah. They destroy, they a long way to go, don't they? They destroyed their people and they destroyed personation people and they south land and they just automatically took over. Yeah. Yeah. I disagree with it like that. When the power went off. When you are on the mainland. They come quickly back. Yeah.
See we should have those sort of fellas, guys like that as big trucks to fix the power straight away. And then when there we need automatically need a, a evacuation center. I on locks lock they terrible council that don't help us.
And what's your name? Sorry, brother Christopher Christopher. Oh, great to meet you, Christopher. I'm doing heaps of work up Caldoon too. Oh, okay. Yeah. I've got young, young fella, Brody Germaine's doing fitness programs for kids [00:07:00] and Youth Justice and um, yeah, doing some work in Doomadgee. I was in Mount Isa for three years doing stuff with, um, probation parole, doing programs in ish island.
Do what you stuff love it up there.
The government's selling the cigarette to, yeah. Yeah. And hence all the tobacco wars in Victoria and New South Wales. It's insane. It is wild, isn't it? They just, they have to drop a price. Yeah. Then they're gonna demolish the 40 packs in July and pack cut when it's, and they're gonna really. Yeah, they're gonna demolish the 40 pack 30 pack and then just sell this.
So it used to write for them to sit down and say, yo, you're not smoking 40 pack. You're smoking this now. True. That's why we need to stand up to this white government. Yeah. Tell 'em to shove it up their [00:08:00] ass. Tommy Lee from Motley Crew, he posted something, he was shocked. He come there to buy four packets of cigarettes, it cost him like 250 bucks and he actually posted a grant.
This would've cost me $15 a pack in America. Yeah, I reckon the other side of it, they're never gonna drop the tax. 'cause how much money do they make outta Oh yeah, no, you stop smoking.
Collection of 200 bucks. That's for package at $50.
Well, I'm here for all week. Oh. My main thing is sitting down with people having yard morning. Um, yeah. Oh, that's good. You come over. Yeah. Black. Yeah. Yeah, I'm looking at your camera going, oh, no. Wonder why people even buying, even with the phones like I was looking at. Yeah.
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