Try to Download directly 3. Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Earlier this week, Facebook banned the public page of Indigenous activist Celeste Liddle after she posted an image of Aboriginal women with painted chests and bare breasts engaged in a cultural ceremony in the desert. The image accompanied a transcript of her International Women's Day keynote speech in Melbourne. Her account has now be re-instated, but the image remains banned — and feminists who are posting the image in solidarity are also finding themselves in the line of fire. Aboriginal women from the remote Central Australian community of Ampilatwatja performing at a public ceremony in to protest against the Northern Territory intervention. Audio Player failed to load.
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On Thursday, Scott Morrison said that there was no slavery in this country. On Friday he backed down from those comments and acknowledged the history of blackbirding in Australia — where people were coerced into working as indentured labourers, often through deception or force. He said his Thursday comments related to the principles that existed when the colony of New South Wales was founded — that there was to be no lawful slavery in Australia. One Australian user posted about the topic on his personal Facebook profile, including a photo of nine Aboriginal men chained together by their necks wearing loin cloths outside Roebourne Gaol in The post was restored after Guardian Australia asked Facebook about whether the photo had been flagged in error. Facebook apologised to the user late on Friday and restored the post. A spokeswoman for Facebook said the photo was removed by the automated system in error. Oh, the fucking irony..
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AS A child growing up in Gunnedah, Miranda Kerr was adept at climbing trees, but a photo shoot in the American desert provided a new challenge for the tomboy turned supermodel. I could see Miranda's skin was covered in goosebumps. But the Victoria's Secret model, in that gutsy Australian spirit, persevered, and the striking nude image is featured in James' new book, Nomad Two Worlds, which was launched in New York on Monday night. Kerr admitted she had a slight hesitation at James's proposition. Credit: Getty Images. Kerr quickly adds: "And the deal was that nothing would show and it would be a very timeless and classy photo.
They are republished here to demonstrate recurring tropes of Aboriginal women elders that are racist and misogynistic. Many a feminist, by now, has upbraided the duplicity of breastfeeding women being shamed, while virtually in the shadow of hoardings, giving ample eye-suckle to passing heteroblokes. Scandal after scandal has broken on Facebook following its unilateral censuring of selective naked breasts, inciting free-the-nipple picnics and other breast-flailing expressions against slut-shaming. But the latest fracas involving Arrernte woman and writer Celeste Liddle, and the image of painted Ampilatwatja women performing ceremony, references more than just discriminatory publishing of naked breasts by Facebook and, by extension, the wider mediascape.
