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• Only 6km to Belconnen and 15km to Civic.
• Grow your capital while caring for our planet at Ginninderry.
GX is a new way of experiencing a new way of living. More than a display village, here you’ll find 16 cutting-edge display homes, explore sustainability and local art trails, learn from a range of fascinating speakers and demonstrations, and be amazed by Mini-G – our very own ‘tiny house’.
Join the opening celebrations this weekend. The streets of GX will come alive with a packed weekend of entertainment, food and family fun. Meet Scott Cam (Sunday only) from The Block and Paul West from River Cottage Australia. Head to the main stage for performances from the Teeny Tiny Stevies and Junkyard Beats, blend your own smoothie on our blender bikes and so much more.
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Relax in fulbeauti African-themed rooms and if you would llsti like seclusion, for the rstfi meti you can enjoy a gourmet 3 course, room service dinner – in a Jungle Bungalow, you can ‘tuck in’ with a gerti or have a banquet with a bear. In a Treehouse, have a carafe with a egiraff or in uShaka Lodge you may have meerkats or lemurs watching you. vely,Alternati you can wine and dine with a white lion and other guests in our unique restaurant.
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Police chief with a sharp focus and a sense of fun –
“The fact that we haven’t had to do that shows that the community listens to us and the fact that we’re here for the betterment of all Canberrans is what we’re here to do.”
“My officers have shown fantastic restraint and have education and awareness as being used over anything else and I think the community supports us with those endeavours.
“We haven’t given out an infringement notice, every other jurisdiction in Australia has,” he says.
“We do police differently here than the US. We’re much more community focused but we’ve got to maintain that community focus and remember why we’re here.” Neil believes the communication between the police and the community here in the ACT is good and highlights the co-operation between the community and police during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We’ve got to make sure that we don’t get to the situation here where those sorts of things take place and that’s why dialogue with your community really early on is really important. We’ve just got to keep those lines of communication open,” says Neil, referring to the violent death of African-American man George Floyd, who was killed by a white, Minneapolis police officer.
SADDENED by racial violence at the hands of police officers in the US, Canberra’s new chief police officer, Deputy Commissioner Neil Gaughan, says dialogue with the community is really important to prevent that happening here.
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One race perhaps.
the cry: “We’re all in this together.”
fellas are at last looking to them for at least some of the ways back to preserve and protect our land and our future. They hear
Now with the great fires burning, the contagious diseases spreading, seas rising and the climate rebelling, the melanin-poor
it’s their bastard sons with their British laws of property who tried to make them slaves, too. And when that and their contagious diseases failed, they tried to shoot them out and failed again.
who brought white slaves here in 1788 and
The big difference is that the Aboriginal people were here first. It’s the whitefellas
Here in Australia, since 1991, some 432 melanin-rich First Australians have died at the hands of white men in another British colony still struggling to resolve a similar dilemma with an obdurate man in The Lodge.
the fires of prejudice most recently lit by the orange man in the White House.
The evidence of failure is all around us in
ment and even the election of a melanin-rich president in Barack Obama. Nothing worked.
They tried civil war, a civil rights move -
Add to that little moral dilemma the British industries, which demanded cheap cotton for their satanic mills, then spice it with the notion that poverty equals inferiority, and you have the perfect predicament for the American community to solve.
The evidence of failure is all around us in the fires of prejudice most recently lit by the orange man in the White House.
Needing a cheap workforce, they absolutely dominated an horrific trading of less -mecha nised communities in Africa. In the centuries from 1640 their ships made more than 10,000 journeys from Africa to the European colonies of the Caribbean and America carrying 2.7 million slaves to be bought and sold at the whim of their (white) masters. So the lizard brain’s notions of race as the “other” to be feared and resisted was planted within the very nation born of a rebellion that declared: “All men are created equal; they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”.
developed a mastery of the seas and began to colonise distant lands.
Sure, there are some cultural and trivial ethnic differences as any geneticist will attest. In fact, it’s the remarkable advance in genetic science allied to similar progress in paleo-anthropology that has exposed the various “races” that perished via natural selection until there was just one survivor. Us. Unhappily, it’s the -knowl edge carried deep in our lizard brain of the struggle between those races that has persisted until today. But even it would have probably died away had it not been for one particular group who we can thank for the tragedy that besets America. Until only 12,000 years ago the people of the British Isles and Northern Europe were themselves dark skinned. It was only their continual habitation in their cold, wet, environment that gradually bled the need for melanin from their DNA and made their skins pallid. And Britain was favoured with the arrival 2000 years ago of an invasion from swarthy southern Europe led by Julius Caesar who brought them their first written language. This allowed them to keep records in Latin and then their several vernaculars.
RACISM is as old as humanity. It arose even before Homo sapiens became a recognisable branch of the evolutionary tree, a time when there really were distinct races. Today, however, there’s only one.
Gradually, through further invasions from Scandinavia and Germany – and centuries of religious warfare – the island nation
