{"id":18939,"date":"2010-08-07T02:42:09","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T16:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=18939"},"modified":"2010-08-07T02:42:09","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T16:42:09","slug":"mission-australia-first-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=18939","title":{"rendered":"Mission Australia First Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Above<\/em> : Boneheads gather outside the Virginia Palms Hotel in Brisbane. The meathead on the right reading the newspaper is wearing a ‘Ravenous’ t-shirt — Ravenous<\/a> is a Melbourne-based neo-Nazi reich ‘n’ roll band: the band’s merch is available for purchase through local neo-Nazi outlet 9%.<\/p>\n

Australia First Party members and supporters and various other racist trash — including neo-Nazi skinheads — have this week unexpectedly joined multi-million dollar Christian charity\/business ‘Mission Australia’ in Brisbane, ostensibly in order to “TRANSFORM the lives of homeless Australians who don’t have the power to choose where they sleep each night” as part of ‘National Homeless Persons Week’ (August 2–8, 2010). Thus a handful of racist cranks, in response to Mission Australia’s appeal to organise a ‘Winter Sleepout’, organised one to take place outside of the Virginia Palms Hotel in the Brisbane suburb of Boondall. The Hotel briefly came to public attention when in May 2010<\/a> homeless advocacy group \/ private equity firm CVC Capital Partners revealed that approximately 80 asylum seekers had been transferred there from their prison on Christmas Island.<\/p>\n

Women and children last<\/a><\/p>\n

The Australia First Party has come up with its own win-win solution for raising funds for the homeless and awareness about the plight of boat people this National Homeless Persons Week.<\/p>\n

Under Mission Australia’s Winter Sleepout banner, a goon squad of AFP members camped outside the Virginia Palms Hotel in the Brisbane suburb of Boondall.<\/p>\n

The choice of campsite was influenced by the 80 women and children seeking asylum being put up in the hotel instead of Christmas Island.<\/p>\n

Mission Australia become incandescent with outrage when it learnt AFP was subverting its Winter Sleepout. It demanded an immediate end to fund-raising activities as it considered the political party pushed “hateful and divisive views”.<\/p>\n

The AFP’s Jane Mengler offered to return funds collected during the sleepout.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mission Australia has declared that it’s been “Sleeping out since 1988!” — that is, 10 years prior to it becoming one of a handful of similar charities\/businesses to take advantage of the privatisation of the government un\/employment networks under HoWARd — but the intervening decades don’t appear to have lessened the problem by any significant degree. Presumably, the $20,000+ Mission Australia has raised this year through its stunt activity will help supplement its $220 million annual budget, although I’m guessing that in 12 months time another Winter Sleepout may be scheduled.<\/p>\n

It’s a smart move by AF to draw attention to the seeming disparity between the treatment homeless persons in Australia receive and that provided to asylum seekers; certainly, politicians are unlikely to announce that, such is the pressing need for housing, their governments will provide emergency hotel accommodation to the thousands who sleep rough. Of course, governments do provide millions in short-term funding to slumlords, but that’s another story<\/a> — as is an analysis of the social structures which produce both homes and homelessness.<\/p>\n

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\u201cLet every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the owners as they come out. Let us kill them without mercy and let it be a war of extermination without pity.\u201d (Lucy Parsons quoted in Women Building Chicago<\/em> 2001, p. 671)<\/h2>\n

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