As-salamu alaikum, Rahmatullahi wabarakatuh. That was a very nice welcome. Are you guys having fun today? Sounds like it, masha Allah. What should we say to them? And then second, should we say they called Palestine? Yes, is anybody here from Palestine called stand for Palestine or stand for Palestine? So we're going to read the book so we can learn about what is happening in Palestine, okay? So this book is called Zayn and Mithain. It's written by Iman frustrated by Sofia Suleiman. All right, so I'm going to start. What should I say before I start? Mima and Zayn came back from school. They were tired and glad to be home. Mama had prepared spaghetti and meatballs and blueberries. Mima had joined in excitedly, that something wasn't right. Mama seemed distracted and the phone didn't leave her sight. Mima was concerned. She asked if Mama was okay. Mama replied, sadly, awful things happened in Palestine today. As they were talking about the news, they heard a strange sound. There were lots of people outside and their chants were quite loud. The kids couldn't tell what they were saying, but as the crowd marched near, they started to hear the words and their voice became clear. Now you say it. For the sea, that's good. Masha' Allah. Mama, Zayn asked. Mama said, Palestine, people are losing their homes. They will have no place to live. In that picture. Do you guys see the picture? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I can't hear. There's so many kids. Yeah. There you go. It's on. It's on. Oh, go ahead. What's your question?  They've been bombing it for weeks. They like sent 20 trucks a day. They're supposed to send 100 trucks a day. Yeah, there's a lot that they've been doing. And they use ice cream trucks to bury dead babies. Yes. There's a lot. Yeah. We're gonna ask questions at the very end. Okay. All right. Insha' Allah. So when we get back, now we have to join the march. So leave your lunch and grab a snack. Mima rushed out the door and started marching with the crowd. Zayna and Mima felt unsure, but mama started chanting out loud that people united will never be defeated and apartheid free Palestine resist and return. They noticed that they were all types of people. Old, young men and women. They were speaking many languages and had different shades of skin. There were women wearing hijab and women with long hair. Some had their hair dark and curly, while others had it straight and fair. There were people wearing t-shirts with writing and a cool design. Zayna read the words they said, just another Jew standing for Palestine. That means people of different religions were standing and saying, let's help the Palestinian people. They all look so different. But do you know what was interesting? They were holding the same flag and together they were chanting free, free Palestine. Then they finally went home after walking for hours. Thank you, yes. They were sweaty from the march and definitely needed showers. Thank you, I'm good for now. Zayn asked mama, why are people losing their homes in Palestine? Mama sighed and said loudly, it's a long story filled with crime. So what's going on in Palestine? It sounds like Zayn and Mima are very confused and they want to know what's happening. We're gonna have all the questions at the very end, okay? Well, we're gonna hear it right now, inshallah. Jews, Muslims and Christians lived in harmony side by side. Religions and they were fair and kind. That was not the case in the continent of Europe. Jewish people had to face daily harm and pain. Then a man named Theodoro Herzl said, this injustice cannot remain. But he came up with an unfair plan. Zionism was its name. That's Theodoro Herzl. This was his idea of Zionism. Zionism is the belief that there should be a land only for Jews. Herzl tried to protect his people, but he ignored others thoughts and views. He decided that Palestine would be the perfect place to make Israel the Jewish only state and that the people already living there could simply be displaced. That means kicked out of their homes. He wanted to kick out everyone who was not a Zionist and take Palestinian land pretending Palestinians do not exist. Over the years, some European Jews began to move to Palestine and Zionism grew. Then came an evil leader. Adolf Hitler was his name. He hurt many people because they were different and not all the same. Including Jews from Europe, he caused them a lot of pain. Sadly, Hitler's awful actions made Zionism thrive. It forced many Jews to flee for their lives. Some became Zionists and went to Palestine. When the Zionists arrived, they worked hard to create Israel, the unjust Jewish only state. The Palestinians didn't want the Jews to face any harm, but Zionists were taking their land and so that caused them alarm. Until this day, Zionists are stealing people's homes and Palestine shrinks while Israel grows. So on the map, it shows, sorry, in the map it shows what was once Palestine and what's now Palestine. All the little yellow. It's getting smaller and smaller and smaller exactly because their land keeps getting taken away. The Palestinians defend themselves with everything they own and stand bravely to protect their families and homes. But Israel has the best weapons, the best food and the best water. It destroys everything in Palestine with its army and its power. Israeli soldiers stop Palestinians from walking freely in their own grounds. They build walls and barriers blocking them from moving around. These walls separate Palestinians from their family and friends, making it impossible for them to meet on weekends, days or even weekends.  It's not a nice feeling at all. The sad thing is the cruelty is being repeated by Zionists treating Palestinians the same unfair way that they were treated.  No. If someone's treating us badly we learn and we do better, right? We treat them better. That's why these people stood up shouting today. Free, free Palestine. They want Zionism to go away. They want Jews, Muslims and Christians living together side by side. Equality is their mission and a free Palestine is their pride. Free, free Palestine. Zayn and Mima listened to the story carefully. They were quiet and sad. Why can't everyone be treated equally? They just didn't understand. What can we do to support them? Asked Mima. Mama said we will do everything in our hands. We march and we shout and we make our demands. Telling the whole world to stop Zionists from stealing Palestinian land. We must also make sure to use our money with care and never spend it on anything that helps Israel stay unfair. So before we buy anything we must check a movement called BDS. It gives us an important list of the companies that support Zionists. So we should put our money towards good things like Muslim businesses. It was time to go to sleep. Zayn and Mima crawled into bed. But they were thinking about the Palestinians without a roof over their head. The next day Zayn and Mima got prepared. They painted a flag and made a sign. You see their sign? What did they say? Ready to stand. Masha Allah. That was a nice book. She wrote it and she would say thank you. Masha Allah. Okay. Okay. You guys have a lot of questions. We're going to pick some. Sit down. Sit down. Come on. All right. We're going to give different people a chance. It's not okay if somebody cheats them wrong. They learn that they should not cheat the other people wronger. But they just cheat them a little wrong and now they're treating them for a long time. Yes. So we have to be careful, right? Yes. That we don't treat these. Israel was a big country. It beat Palestine in the battle war. In the six day war? Yeah. Yeah. That was a six day war. Israel. Yeah. So Israel is actually not a very big country. It's small, but it has the support of America. So it did beat the Arab countries in the six day war. I have some good questions. If it's a question, it has to be a question. Oh, I need to think about it. Israel is taking our land and trying to take our land just to live there because other people are destroying their land. So they want to destroy another land that is Palestine. That's true. But is that okay? Do you think? It's not good to treat people unfair. It's not good to treat people unfair. Does anybody have questions? Any questions? I just wanted to ask, when was this book published? Because this was kind of a recurring event, but even though it started like very long ago, it's now kind of being a really big problem. I don't think it shows in cheer and parenthesis. That is an excellent question, but the book is actually on Amazon. We can check and see. I think it was published recently. That was a good question. Did you know? Did you know once, they just had tools, a rocket. But do you know what we have? We have the power of God. Exactly. So can we do that? Can everyone sit down? The suffering are going through a hard time. It's something difficult. Yeah. One, two, three, two minutes for brother to get ready. So if you have your listening ears open, if you have your, can you zip it? Lock it? Stick it in your pocket, guys. Ready? One, two, three. Get in your pocket. We're going to do Fatiha while we get ready. Okay. Are you ready? You're in your whisper voice. Ready? Here we go. We need four calls. Who's going to do the first call? Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. We're gonna say, what's your name? Mariam, the second person for the second call. You guys, the most important rule is don't test the blue line. Don't test the blue line. Don't test the green line. Stay behind the line. If you cross the line, I have to stop the show. I don't want to stop the show. So stay behind the lines. On the side, you won't be to see much. Let you guys know. On the side, you won't be to see much. Let you know. The rules are easy. Questions after the show. First animal, small and cute. They have names. My name is Tracy. His name is Chubby Debbie, but you got to call him out. Say, come on out, Chubby Debbie. Terrible. Do it again. Say, come on out, Chubby Debbie. Much better guys. We'll start small. Two year old. Super cute. We got him.  There he is right there. Say, hi Chubby Debbie.  Say, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi. Good. He's smart. Guys, he won't just go, yay. He wants to run. Tell him now. Say, run, run, run. Say, go, go, go. He'll run soon. I promise you keep on watching. The next guy's bigger. His name is Brown Town. Say, come on out, Brown Town. He is bigger and cuter. You can all touch him later. I got him right here. He's my cute guinea pig. There he is. Say, hi, Brown Town. Wave like him. Two hands in your head. Wave like this and like that. Let's go, friends. Hi, hi, hi, hi, freeze. Faster. Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. After the show, gotta sit down. Guys, no standing up. No standing up. Gotta sit down. You're blocking the view. First guy, put him in here. Tell him, guys, say, stay inside. Oh, he wants some food, I think. Tell him now. Say, find your carrot. Can he find that? The leg said, I gotta let me go. I gotta go. I gotta go. I gotta go. Got it. Give him a hand. Yeah. Good job. He needs a few wood chips. Some of these things right there, right there. A little hat too. No. Carrots are like candy bars. Say, no candy. No candy. We'll say for later on top for dessert on top for later. Okay. Next one's bigger. Her name is Treasure. Say, come on out, Treasure. Bigger, two years older. She's cute. She's my beautiful. What? Got her bunny rabbit. Say, hi, Treasure. No. Wave like her. No hands. Only one foot.  Hi, hi, hi, hi, hi. Tell me this. Can I try to fit it in my pocket? No. Can she run inside of this wheel? Yes or no? But she's smart. Tell her guys, say, don't jump off the table. She'll stay the whole time and never jump. She's that smart. And tell me, what do they eat? What do they eat? What do they eat? Good idea. Tell her guys, say, eat it. It's behind you. Hey, don't sit on the carrot. Whatever, Treasure. Next guy's smaller. Nope, he's bigger. His name is Boo. Say, come on out, Boo. Hey, six years old guys. Gotta sit down, brother. Don't try to squeeze it. Blue lion, blue lion. I can't stop. Blue lion, blue lion. I can't stop. His name is Boo. Say, come on out, Boo. Six year old. Only six. When you're all grandmas and grandpas, you'll still be walking around. My baby tortoise. Say, hi, Boo. Wave like him. Elbow. Let's go. Hi. Hi. Other side. Boo is hard as a rock, hard as a rock. But he wants some food. He eats grass and flowers. No grass and flowers now, guys. Wait, I know what he wants. What does he want the most? Tell them guys, say, eat it. Say, it tastes like candy. He's like, that is not candy, man. Fine. Say for later. Tell them guys, say, eat your salad. Salads right here, my friends. Say it's really good. He might eat it now with some croutons in the salad. Croutons in the salad. Croutons. Say, chew your food. He'll never stop eating, guys. Don't worry about that. Sweet stuff, too. Yeah. Grape some tomatoes in the salad. Good idea. How about a cookie for dessert? Yes. Is that a cookie? To him is chocolate chip. Don't say cucumber. Say cookie, cookie, cookie. Thanks, guys. Next guy's smaller over there. Tell the bunny treasure now. Say, don't fall. Face the audience treasure. Comb your hair. It's got to be right. That's much, much, much, much better. Tell her guys, say, hold on tight. Don't fall sideways. His name is Echo. Say, come on out, Echo. Two years old, guys, but he might be cute. He's not a chicky. He's my two-year-old, kind of cute. Got him. Tree frog. There he is right there. Say, hi, Echo. He can jump really high and far and climb trees like this. Say, don't move. He's moving. Say, stop, stop. Hey, he's trying to give me a kiss. No kiss from the frog. We know what happens. Tell him now, guys. Say, stay inside. Now do this.  Make your eyes big and say, rip it, rip it, rip it. Good. He might jump out for sure. No jumping out. No jumping out. Top. Yes or no. Yeah. The top is going on, guys. No jumping out. Tell this guy, say, eat more salad. We'll say the cookie for later. Cookie for later. Okay. Yeah, he's making a mess. I know. Next guy's ready. Smaller. Over there, guys. His name is actually Baby. Say, come on out, baby. It is a baby, guys. And guess what? That's his uncle. His uncle's right there. Baby turtle.  How about he say, hi, hi, hi. Hey, he wants to swim. Let him go swimming. Yes or no? Yes. Here's the pool. How about water in the pool? Yes or no? Probably a good idea, guys. The water's right here. Tell him, say, go swimming. Don't worry. That's not poison. It's only cabbage. Relax. Tell him, guys. Say, go swimming. Lines, lines. I got to stop the show. Behind the lines. I got to stop the show. Behind the lines. I got to stop the show. Behind the lines. I got to stop the show. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. And swim time.  Say, go diving. Watch that little guy for me. Here we go. Can you really go diving? Uncle's right there. Starting on his shoulder. Nope. Uncle's head. And yeah. Give him a hand. Yeah. I know. He did it by himself, guys. Did it by himself. Tell this guy. Say, last piece. He's doing a good job on the salad. Good job making a mess. Good job making a mess, making a mess. Say, chew your food. He won't stop. Next one's cooler. Her name is Faraya. Say, come on out, Faraya. Guess what, guys? She has pretty hair like who? Pretty hair like treasure. Another rabbit. Maybe a squirrel. Chipmuk. Nah. It's a mommy, teacher, grandma, favorite. You guessed it. Tarantula spider. Tell her, guys. Say, stay inside. Top? Yes or no? Yes or no? Top is on. Say, hi, big spider. Wave to her, guys. Say, hi. Say, hi, big spider. Say, hi, big spider. Blue line, blue line. Tell her, guys. Say, don't come out. She won't come out. She won't like Spider-Man. Upside down, like Spider-Man, but never come out. Say, stay inside. Thanks, guys. Next guy's got to come out, but first, he's got to go. Say, bye, bye, boo. No. How does he wave? Remember, show me now. No feet. Elbow. Elbow. Let's go. Elbows. Bye, bye, bye. Other side. Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye. Say, wipe your mouth. Okay. Say, bye, boo. We'll see him later, okay? Next guy's not smaller. Next one is Nope. Longer. His name is Slinky. Say, come on out, Slinky. No, that was terrible. Do it again. Say, come on out, Slinky. Much better. He's awake, I think. He's asleep. Say, wake up. He's awake. He's nice. Nicer than who? Nicer than Chubby Dubby. He is mean. He likes me, but nobody else. This guy likes everybody, guys. Say, come on out. We got him. Six-year-old. He's also my bracelet. Is my bracelet pretty? Fine. How about a necklace? Is my necklace pretty? Cooler. Cooler. Fine. Long ponytail. My hair's, I like your hair, but I like your hair. I like your hair. I like your hair. No, why? My hair is the same. See? We're the same. Every We're the same. The same hair, right? Right? Look at this. No rattle. No rattle. No rattle. No thanks. No teeth. No poison. Kisses. Who will eat? He will eat our friend Chubby Dubby for snack. Yes or no? Yes or no? No. That's not part of the show. No, no, no, no, no. I do need one volunteer. One volunteer. Who's sitting the best crisscross double sauce? Hands down. Right here by me. Look at the cameras that way. Big smiles. Don't move. This is our new princess. Say hello, princess. Wave to the princess. Say hello, princess. Wave back to them.  Give her a hand. Yeah. Good job, son. Back to your seat. Back to your seat. Say bye, Sinky. With your tongue go. Say go inside. He's gone. Give her my hand. Yeah. Next guy's smaller. Blue line check. Blue line check. Green line check. Good job, guys. Next guy's name is Camo. Oh, no, it's Plato. Say come on out, Plato. Not Plato. Plato. He's my seven month old crazy ducky. There you go. Say quack, quack, quack. Wave arms.  Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go. Tell them say no flying. He won't fly, but he wants some cereal. Know what kind it is? Fish cereal. Do you guys like fish cereal too? It's gross. I tried some. It's terrible. It's terrible. Tell them guys say eat it slow. Say don't eat fast. Eat slow. Okay, Plato. Nice and slow. Hey, say slow down. Hey, too fast, man. Too fast. I have an idea. Tell them guys say that's milk. He doesn't drink milk. This is milk for him. Say that's milk. Now there's milk in the cereal. Say eat it slow. Eat it slow. Nice and slow. Okay, Plato. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Say slow down. He'll never slow down, guys. Don't worry. He'll never, ever slow down. Let him finish. Let him finish. Let him finish. Next guy's ready. His name is Camo. Say come on out, Camo. Oh, I forgot. Guys, guys, gotta put a glove on to get him out. Why? Don't worry about why. Just get ready. Not a bird. Say he's asleep. Whisper, say come on out. No, no, like this. Come on out. Now we're ready. Hold on a second. You done, man? Say a little bit more. That's enough, man. That's enough, man. That's enough. Now we're ready. Tell them guys say come out. Hold on, guys. Think he's asleep. I got the lock. Hold on. Here we go. Hey, what are you doing? Tell me. Say no, no, no. Guys, we do need some food. I know what he eats. He likes bread the most. Who can hold the bread? Any volunteers? Who's behind the blue line? Who's behind the blue line? Wait. Treasure won't hold it. Say hold it. Good idea. Yes or no? Say don't eat it. Stay over there. Don't go near the bread. Stay by the carrot. Don't go near the bread, treasure. Thanks. Here we go. Say turn around. Don't sit on it. Say no, treasure. He's small. Say hold it. Right there. Okay. Don't eat it, man. No, no, no, no, no, no. Say no, Chubby Debbie. Guys, how about a top? That'll make it easy. Okay. Say don't do that again. Now we're good, guys. Say no, no, no. Go back inside. What? Say no, round town. Guys, I better hide it right over here. Instead, right there's better. Say no, no, no. Say it's not yours. Fine. I better hide it right here, guys. I trust no one now. Let's get this guy finally. His name is Camo. Say come on out, Camo. Guys, he's smaller, but he's cool. The glove, I don't need it. Raise one hand on the sky, everybody. When he jumps out, guys, just catch him in the air. Wherever he goes, just catch him. I have a glove. You don't have one. Catch him with your bare hands. Who got for this one? Nobody can walk past the duck. You might fly away. So keep him back behind the line, behind the line, behind the line. Good job. Hands down. Even Tracy, no glove. He's nice. Three years old. He's not mean. He's my three-year-old. What? God, he's my chameleon. There he is right there. Say hi, Camo. Tell them guys, say change colors. Doesn't work that fast, guys. Only cartoons that fast. Getting darker, darker, darker, darker, darker, darker, darker. Well, let's try this. Say climb your tree. Now, one outside. How about the small one? Say you can do it. Can he do it by himself? Sideways appears to be no problem. And not that way, man. Back to the tree, man. Hold on tight. Say don't let go. He's got it, I think. What about upside down, though? Good climber, huh, guys? Say let it go. Let it go, Camo. What? Hey, tell them guys, say let it go. You can't hold that with your tail. Say bye, Camo. No, wave like him with your tail, too, guys. Wave with your tail. Let's go. Hey, what are you guys doing, man? No, no. Don't wave like that. Pinky fingers like this. Not like that. Say bye, Camo. Last animals. One and a half animals left. One and a half left. Don't cross the blue line. Blue line.  I got him. His name is actually Chirp. His cousin. His cousin. His cousin. Say come on out, Chirp. I think he's over here somewhere, guys. I got him. He's my super fluffy, fluffy, fluffy chicken. There he is right there. Say hi, Chirp. Wave like him. Big arms. Go, big arms. Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go. One thing. Never say chicken nuggets. No chicken nuggets. Don't say happy meal. Never say Chick-fil-A. I need one volunteer, one volunteer. Who's sitting in the best criss-cross apple sauce? Who's behind the blue line? Who do I choose? Who should I pick? Who would it be? Who should I choose? Hands down. Big smiles. Don't move. Look at the cameras over there. He's on your head. Just look at the cameras. Look that way. Look that way. He's on your head. He's on a fall. Don't move. Do not move, man. He's on a fall. Don't move. Stop doing that. Don't move your head. Don't breathe. Stop breathing so much. Don't breathe. Stop breathing. Don't smile. He's going to fall if you smile. Why are you smiling, man? Your head is moving wide. Don't smile, man. Stop it, man. Give him a hand. Yeah, good job, brother. Tell them guys, say, flying. Say, stay right there. Cousin is here. Hugs for cousin. Hugs for cousin. His little brother's kind of here. His little brother's right there. Tell them guys, say, he's real. He doesn't know he loves them, okay? Right there. Hey, hey, don't kick him.  Who said yes? I believe you. I believe you. Last one's big. I need 10 volunteers. I'm only going to choose those that are sitting down, crisscross applesauce. Who's sitting down the best crisscross applesauce? Hold on. Let's get her out first. Let's get her out first. Her name is Nana, but don't call her Nana. Thanks, guys. Fine. Say, say hi, Green Line. If I choose, anybody's going to be standing on this line, okay?  Who do I choose? Who should I pick? Who's the quietest one? Who's the quietest kid? Who should I choose? Who should I pick? Who will I choose to stand on the Green Line? Who will it be? Who should I choose? Who's sitting down the best? Who's the quietest kid? Who do I have to pick? Hands down. Let's get her out first. Do not choose the best kids. Her name is Nana. Again, fine. Say, come on out, banana. Seven years old, but guess what? She's a big girl. And guess what? Guess what? Same color. Same color. Same color. Same color. Mommy chicken. Daddy chicken. Maybe a ducky or a monkey. She eats mommy chickens. She eats ducks. Sorry, Plato. She eats roosters. Sorry, fluffy chirp. And I said monkey for banana.  But she is nice. Seven-year-old Albino Burmese python. But she only gives hugs. Not just hugs also. If you see one outside this big, run away and scream. This one is nice. I do need 10 volunteers. Who's sitting the best crisscross apple sauce? Who could I choose? Green line, green line. Green line, green line. No bat, no bat, no bat, no bat. No bat, no bat. Go. No bat, no bat, no bat. Put the bat down. Come on. Put the bat down. Put the bat down. Bring him through. Bring him through. Two hands out. Green line. Toes on green. Toes on green. Toes on green. No spaces. No spaces. Hands out. Hands out. Stand on the green line. Stand on the green line. Don't let go, guys. Be strong. Don't let go. Be strong. Grab this little one for me, guys. You got to grab this one. He's the night. The table's over. Night table's over. Here we go. Good job. Don't let go. Be strong. Be stronger. Come on. Be stronger. Say cheese. Say cheese. Now go high in the sky with your hands. Use your real hands. Use your real hands. Go high in the sky, guys. Who's the strongest? Look at the camera. Say cheese. Look at the camera. Say cheese. Little man, what are you doing? Get up there. Come on. Let's go. Get up there, little friend. Get up there. Come on. Give them all a hand. Yeah. Back to seat, guys. Back to seat. Back to seat. Back to seat. Let my little friend through. Let my little friend through. Let him through. Let him through. Tell them, guys, say blue line, blue line, blue line. Back up. Back up. Tell her, guys. Say go inside. Say right now. She's gone. Thanks. What? Oh, she's hungry. She's hungry. Yes or no? No. That's my cousin. That's my cousin. No way. Say go inside. Say right now with your tongue, guys. Go blue line. Say bye bye. Give her a hand. Yeah. If you want to pet the animals, guys, crisscross applesauce. Who's going to pet them first? Who's the best kid? Who do I choose? Who should I pick? Who will it be? Who should I choose to go first? Who should it be? Watch. Watch. Watch. Can't touch everybody, guys. Who can you touch? Only, only, only, only treasure. Yes. Fluffy chirp. Yes. Who else? Brown town. Yes. And crazy Play-Doh. Yes. Not the small guys. Say bye, baby. No, no, no. Wavelight, baby waves, hands and feet. Who is fashion? Let's go. Fast like him. Let's go. Say bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye. Say swim in the air. I'm doing it, guys. No, he's not. Say bye, baby. Echo the froggy, guys. Too slimy to touch. Say bye, echo. No, say, ribbit, ribbit, ribbit. Good job. Say bye, bye. And the spider. You cannot touch her either. Say bye, big spider. Wait a minute. He said it was the dirty turtle water. Say drink the dirty water. To him it's like vitamin water. Okay, guys, don't care. It's for limbs like vitamin water.  Next guy's right. Oh, I forgot the spider. Say bye, big spider. Wave like her, guys. Lock your thumbs, eight fingers. If you don't wave, I'll throw her in the audience. You better wave. All you want to catch a spider? Say bye, sister.  Say bye, bye. Wait a minute, friend. Your other friend. I forgot about the other guy. You cannot touch who else? Can't touch. Wait a minute. Spider judge will escape. Say no escaping.  Go inside, go inside. Well done. Wait a minute. Chubby Debbie's too small to touch. Say bye, Chubby Debbie. He's too small, guys. I'm sorry. Wave like him. Chubby cheeks, blow bubble. Then two hands and two feet. Who's faster? Him or you? Let's go. Don't let him be. He's winning. Come on, go fast like this. Come on. Say bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye. Say bye, bye. Wait a minute, guys. Brown town, Brown town. You still could touch him later? He makes a mess every day. That's all he does. Don't worry about Plato. All he does is make messes. Say good job, Plato. Wait a minute, guys. I forgot about the other guy. Brown town. Say bye, Brown town. Don't worry. You still could touch him. You still could touch him. Not yet. Wave like him. How does he wave? Easy. Two hands and your head like this and like that.  Get set to wave. Let's go. Go. Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye. Say bye, carrot. Hey, say don't eat the clothes. Hey, not the clothes, man. What are you doing? Say eat the carrot. Share with cousin. You share with cousin. You share. He's over here not real. Say fly away. He's not real either. Say fly away. Can they fly? Yes. Little bit. Now special treat. Giving away four animals. Giving away four to take home. Take one of these four animals home right now to win the game. Only crisscross double sauce winners. Crisscross double sauce to win the game. Who else can win the game? Hands behind your back. To win right now. Don't move your head. To win one right now, kids. Just do this. Move your ears like treasure and you win. Ears go. Your head can not move ears only, guys. Eyebrows cannot move to win or cheeks. Your eyebrows are going crazy. What's wrong with you guys?  They're going crazy, man. You lost. Your eyebrows are going crazy. You lost. You almost won though, man. You almost won. His eyebrows are going crazy. He lost. I said no eyebrows and no cheeks. Stop moving the eyebrows. Stop moving the eyebrows, man. You might win. Come on, man. Win. You almost won, man. You almost won. Nobody won, but guess what? You still could touch them. Brown town right there. Treasure right there. Say fly away. Watch them fly. Flying chicken. Three, two, one. I'm flying. He can't fly, guys. He's right there. Blue line. Blue line. Don't cross it. Even pants. Play-doh's going to be where? Right about here. Say fly away table. Hey kids, can tables fly? Guys, only with magic. Only with magic. Watch the cool magic trick. It's the best trick ever. Here we go. Abracadabra. The worst magic you've ever, ever seen. And ta-da. Blue line. Blue line. Even in the air. Good job. Guess what? Watch how it works. You've got two more things. Wait, wait, wait. I forgot. This guy will be right about there. Play-doh's right about here. Chirp is right here. And now boo the tortoise. Say fly away, boo. Watch them fly, guys. Flying tortoise is coming. Don't worry. Flying tortoise is coming. He's about to fly over there. I promise you that. Wrong box. We're good. He's over there. He's already in the box. Oh, you gotcha. Boo's flying over right now. Say hi, boo. He'll be right about there. And guess what? Can pet two more things, guys. Yes, can pet the wheel. And you can pet the beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful glove. Say hi, blue line. Hey, say hi, blue line. Hi, blue line. That's what we're going to be walking, but not yet. Watch me do it first. Walk on the line and don't mess up. I cannot mess up on the line. Oh, no. Did I say bye, glove? Bye, table. Bye, will. Then now the important part. One time each. You got to keep moving. Long line behind you. Watch this. Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, and bye, bye. Don't stay here. If you stop right there, all bad. Who's going to go first? She's first. Get in line. Get in line. Blue line, blue line, blue line, blue line, right there. Go, go, go, blue line. Guys can't cat. I'm sorry guys. I'm sorry keep walking back there. Yes. It's craziness. Yeah, they're gonna walk that way Thank you for the state for security. Thank you sir. Thank you Ready to walk sweetie Walk on blue line guys walk on the blue line. Do not mess up walk on the blue line. It's not that hard You got this you got this actually walk on down walk on down Madar All right, Ma'sha'Allah. We have it Zaydan. How old are you? 12 Ma'sha'Allah Zaydan is working on his his program and he's gonna lead us tonight in prayer as well


Welcome to Toffy TV, these are my player ratings, Aston Villa 2, Everton Neil, horrendous, horrendous performance by Everton tonight, just utterly shocking all over the park. Jordan Pickford, not much he really could have done about either goal I don't think, made one good save, didn't really have that much to do, that was the mad thing. I'll give him a 7, he was beaten twice so I'll give him a 7. Sheamus Coleman, thought his cross was awful, I didn't think he was defending, that was that much better either, so I'll give him a 6. On the other side, Llew Cyddean again, poor going forward, defence started the game really well, nice link up with Bernard and that's right though, didn't get there right back enough, we'd been booked quite early on. So I'll give him a 6 as well, probably the same as Sheamus Coleman. In the centre of defence, Michael Keane, probably a fall for the goal, some people will say he was and some people will say he was, it was his player who came across him. So that was the big turn on point, he'd been excellent Michael Keane and he was pretty good for the rest of the game as well but for that one mistake I'll give him a 6. Mina, marginally better, marginally better, marginally better I think so I'll give him a 6.5. The pair didn't just got caught up too much, Mina was getting caught up too much with that Wesley. I know he's trying to be a leader and stuff and that is natural personality because I've seen him when he plays for Columbia but I think he let the kid get on the descans far too much, I think he did. I think he worked on both and I don't think they were good enough. Midfield, Gomez, it was horrific, absolutely horrific and you'll know that, you could see it every time the camera went on him. Honestly, I'll have to give him a 3, he was terrible, he was utterly, utterly terrible. The amount of times he kicked the ball out all to them was just, it was up there with, it was probably worse than the Southampton game because he was dragged off in the Southampton game because, but tonight he wasn't. I don't know whether he's still not fit or it's because he's got someone like Snarl next to him and he hasn't got a ghan type of player next to him so he has to do more defensive work and I don't know but he was utterly, utterly terrible tonight, utterly terrible. Snadlin, I'll give a 5 because generally he just did what he normally does which is just get the ball and give the ball. Played one really good ball into the box in the first half which set up Seamus Coleman to set up Dominic Armelun but he hit one of the plays on the line, yes I'll give him a 5. Head of them, Guilfee Sigarton, just doesn't get on the ball enough, just doesn't get involved in the game enough. Always on the edge of the game recently and I'll have to give him a 4, just always choosing the safe option as well. Get it on the edge of the box, always looking to go wide, just have a shot, just have a shot, do something a little bit different. Richard Ellison, worked hard, not much creativity from him. I don't know why the VAR didn't look at the penalty decision in the first half but probably a bit soft but you would have expected the VAR to look at it. Didn't really create anything, didn't really make any, didn't really have any shots or create anything. So I'll give him a 5 on the other side but nah it looked really bright early on for the first 10-15 minutes and then just drifted out of the game and then obviously got subbed. I'll give him a 5 as well because he was just, as I said, early doors looked alright and then just couldn't get back into the game after that, back connection with him and bane just went. Up front on my caravan living, poor on his own, I've said this before that away from home he's just not the same player he is at home and yes I did pick him for the team but I also said it because to get keen up to speed but add that big chance in the first half. He's looked at it and probably just thought it the target, someone with a little bit of class there, a top centre forward just sweeps that into the bottom corner with his space. The kids just trying to get it on target because I think that's just the level of his game. Another day that goes in, I know that but someone with real class puts that into the bottom corner but unfortunately it's not that kind of player. Second half, nothing again, looked a little bit brighter when he got Moise Keane alongside them but four for me, just very very poor. Gapatine him in the rest of the team, massive, I know there's not much he can do about that but he's not making enough intelligent runs either. All he's looking at is long passes and trying to hold them up. He's not making enough intelligent runs off the centre backs for people to slip him in behind. I think that's what we'll see more of from Moise Keane are those runs that get him behind. That's what their centre forward was doing and look at the run for the goal. He sees the passing, just makes that crucial run. I don't know if Dom's got that in his armory but very very poor tonight. The sub's a Wobie, I thought was pretty good when he came when I gave him a 7. Lot more energy, you can see he's a little rougher on the edge just because he's not fit. So I'll give him a 7. Moise Keane, little moments, set up, woke up brilliantly for his chance. Just little moments, you know that you can see the level and once he gets that level then hopefully we'll have a player. So I'll give him a 7 as well and woke up. I'll have to just give him like a 2 because he had one meaningful thing to do and it was a tapping at the back post and he's put it over the bar. You're brought on to do something, you're brought on to make a difference. At least hit the target, you know, he skies it over the bar when the goal's gaping and that's 1-1 and you've got away with a point.  If we stepped up just a tiny bit, we would have got something out of that game but with our worst own enemies and I've said loads of times that people can say, oh well, Arsenal are there to be caught, Chelsea are there to be caught, man United will be there to be caught. You've got to catch them, you've got to win games like that to catch them. You've got to get 65 points, be a minimum to get in the top 6. Don't get 65 points by playing like that, a villa, you know, you just don't, it's as simple as that. So for me we need to rip it all up and start again and look for a different way of playing away from home because that's not, that's a year, that's a year, that's a year in two games now that we've played like that away from home and it's got us less than half a dozen wins. So it's not working, it won't work. Change your personnel, change your system and go from there. Anyway, let me know your thoughts in the comments. Yeah, utterly to reject the bar performance. Make sure to check on my instant match reaction and whatever bar sends over from Florida. Thanks for watching, I'll see you later.


GoToBC has recently released their labor market strategy for tourism. We're expecting to see over a hundred thousand new jobs in tourism by 2020, about half of those by retirement and half them the expansion of the industry. These are some of the most interesting career opportunities that exist. It's one that I've participated in in my lifetime working from a corporate entity into a private entrepreneur and it is incredibly satisfying. These are opportunities that young people should be thinking about today. Whether you're interested just working in the industry for a few years to help get into another career or another job or whether you make it your lifetime, it's the kind of thing that you can do and really get great satisfaction from. Great strategy, it's about working together, it's about recruiting, making sure that we retain people and have good training opportunities. We've worked hard in our new strategy to make sure that it is aligned both with the provincial tourism strategy and jobs plan, but also with the federal tourism strategy. In fact, the provincial government partnered with us in providing both financial and human resources to develop this strategy that we're releasing today. All indications are that in this decade, we will see a growth yet again, significant growth in our BC tourism industry and we are determined to be better prepared.


Welcome. Hi. My name is Ben Kochi. I'm one of the maintainers of the Prometheus SNMP Exporter. SNMP is a networking protocol that's used to manage and gather data from network devices, typically routers, switches, that kind of thing. It's very old, but fortunately the data model that it uses maps very well into Prometheus metrics. The metric trees can be mapped into metrics and they're indexed in tables and the indexes can be mapped to labels. This works out really well. So I've got a couple of old Juniper switches. They're in a switch stack and there's quite a lot of ports and a lot of data to gather. So let me start up a quick scrape. Well, that's going. That's taking a while. Let's take a look. I've turned on SNMP Exporter debug logging and let's see how long it takes to gather this data. Well, it's still going. So while we're looking waiting, let's take a look at the SNMP configuration that I've added to my Juniper switch. So there's some stuff that I've left out, but this is the interesting bit that helps improve performance. The first thing I did to improve performance was I added an interface filter and this drops some of the data from the device that I don't actually need to gather from the device. There's a number of subinterfaces and it's a little bit cryptic, but basically this drops the subinterface data from the output of the switch. And the second thing I've done is I've created a, I've added these stats cache that caches the data for 29 seconds and this is designed to match with the scrape interval. So if I hit the device twice from two different Prometheus instances, it'll produce cache data, which is should be much faster than producing the pulling the raw data from the switch. And but I wanted to make sure that I didn't cache longer than one scrape interval. So I've made it one seconds shorter than the actual scrape interval. Let's see how that squawk is doing. Okay. So that walk completed and it took 22 seconds. Well, it's not bad, but it's not great. So let's see if we can figure out why and or how to improve this. Well, so we've got two subtree walks here in the debug log. One of them took 12 seconds. One of them took, took 8.9.8 seconds. Well, that pretty much matches up with the default IF Mib. And so this is the walk configuration that I've asked the device to produce data for. And so the interfaces table in the IF X table come from this IF Mib. And as you can see here, these two tables, the IF table and the IF X table contain a lot of sub trees. And so the first thing we can do is well, let's see what happens if we take and split that out. So I've taken and I built an expanded tree that takes and expands all of these sub trees. And let's run that scrape. So here's IF Mib expanded and let's see what happens if we try and load this. And we'll wait for those logs to finish. All right. So that's going a little bit faster. Well, sort of. It's still taking somewhere in the order of 5 to 600 milliseconds per subtree to gather all this data. And so we haven't really improved the speed by making the scrapes more granular. So it must be something about the scrape data that makes it take so long to produce those metrics. So the next thing we can do is we can simply stop ingesting data we don't need. So here's a generator config that I've created that only gathers exactly what I need from the device, which is the high capacity counters for all the basics. And then I created a second config that gathers all the error counters and a couple of other things like admin status, upper status and port speed. And so once this is done producing data, yeah, so that still took 24 seconds. It definitely wasn't any faster. So let's see what happens if I do the same thing. And I only gather my mini config. Well, let's take a look. Let's wait for that. Walk to run and see how long that take. That looks like it completed. Well, that was much, much faster. I wonder why the system log seems to be a little bit lagged. But let's see if we can get that to produce more data. There we go. Yeah, so that walk only took six seconds. So the big trick to do if you're gathering data is too slow is turn on SNMP exported to blog logging, examine all the sub trees to find out if any specific sub tree is fast or slow, and then reduce the amount of data that you're gathering. Thanks. If you want to see these configurations, I put them up on my GitHub under my tools repo under the SNMP exported directory. And I have a lot of example configs here. Thank you.


That's not a strange language. It's an ancient language. It's the language of my people, the Aryan people, of the southern Kimberley in Buryman, West Australia. That part isn't what you'd call God's country, because God doesn't have it that good. I'd like to welcome you all here tonight, and I'd like to acknowledge and celebrate the first Australians on his ancestral lands we gather tonight. I'd like to pay my respects to their elders past and present. Tonight's lecture is being held to recognise the 50th anniversary of the 1967 referendum, which was indeed a key event in our nation's history. We're holding this event here tonight as part of the ANU's celebration of this year's reconciliation week. Tonight's speaker, the Honourable Linda Booney MP, was elected as a federal member for Barton in 2016, following a 14-year career in the New South Wales Parliament as a member for Canterbury. Linda is a member of the Wiradjuri Nation. She was the first Aboriginal person to be elected to the New South Wales Parliament. And the first Aboriginal woman to serve in the Australian House of Representatives. She was appointed in 2016, the Shadow Minister of Human Services, in July 2016. Linda intends to talk to you this evening about tooth-telling and generosity, our progress so far and the road ahead. And in her speech, Linda will reflect on the significance of the 1967 referendum in terms of building the nation. What did it mean and what changes did it lead to? And she'll then look to the journey that has been taken since. Where are we now and talk about where we as a nation need to go from here? Linda, we welcome you to the ANU yet again.  Thank you so very much, Professor, for that acknowledgement of country and also that welcome. To your people, the Yarrou people, I also pay an enormous tribute. It was a very kind introduction and I want to also recognize Anne Martin, a dear comrade in the struggle for her role in making sure that I was here this evening, as well as her staff. I want to recognize Dr. Azmi Wood, whom I am getting to know through my connection with the Australian National University. And in particular, I'd like to recognize the Indigenous Student Association and the representatives of that association that are with us this evening. And very importantly, I know that the Vice Chancellor, Brian Smith, will join us in a little while at this particular lecture. It's also an enormous amount of gratitude I have for this invitation and an enormous amount of gratitude to all of you that have made the time to come this evening. I'm always astounded by people that come out after a long hard day's work or students that attend evening orations and lectures, and I want to thank you all very much for being here. But most significantly, as Professor Dodson said, to recognize the momentous event of 70 years ago come this Saturday and that, of course, was the 1967 referendum. It seems astounding that it's 50 years on since that referendum. And as I look around the room, there will be some of you that hadn't voted in that referendum, but some of you, of course, that did vote as well. It's wonderful to be here in Canberra on this... I thought it was going to be a freezing evening, but not so chilly. And it's also not a sitting week, which is kind of nice to come down to Canberra to this beautiful city in between sitting weeks. Can I join Professor Dodson in acknowledging the traditional owners of this land on which we gather and on which this university is built? I say Abba Lam Humble, the Nanawul and the Rambi people, Yerabang Marang, and that is in the language of the Waradjri. It says good evening and thank you for allowing me to be here. I pay my respects to the Nanawul and the Rambi, to their elders past and present, and to those First Peoples that are here this evening. This acknowledgement, everyone, is a reminder of the great truth of this nation, one that our maps and our control recently, our public discourse, has denied. Whatever the storied history of Canberra and our parliament and this place, it pales in comparison to the generation of lived human experience of the First Peoples of this part of the land, in fact across our whole country. This acknowledgement reminds us of a number of things which are too often lost in our observance of protocol, sometimes uttered as an afterthought, I am sometimes afraid. But in delivering this acknowledgement, we are reminded that this is a continent built of hundreds of individual nation-states, each with our own cultures, languages, stories and traditions. It reminds us that beneath the map of our arbitrary state and territory borders lays another, more ancient map of those many, many individual nation-states. That before the last 230 years of history, we have another which reaches back to the formation of this land and reaches back to the first sunrise. It also reminds us of the miracle and the strength of the survival of First Peoples, that a culture which predates the birth of Western civilization continues to live to grow and evolve as a living culture this day and into the future. But lastly, acknowledgement of country is an act in truth-telling and that's where I really want to focus many of my comments this evening. Truth-telling is one which recalls the fact of Aboriginal history, the fact of dispossession and the generosity of First Peoples in participating despite that history in the reconciliation process that continues to put out our hand to say, walk with us, stand with us and be in harmony with us as a nation, as a home. This theme, my friends, I will return to later. I suspect that many of the younger people here will not have voted in a referendum in your lifetime. Who fits into that category? Quite a few of you. If you have, you may remember the last time we had a national referendum and the steam defeat of that referendum. Of course, it was the late 90s and it was the Republic. I want you to hold on to that thought as I move through my lecture this evening. A referendum because of its importance in rewriting our constitution has an incredibly high standard for victory, particularly in Australia. In Australia, for a referendum to be successful, it must be achieved in a majority of the popular vote collectively and in a majority of states. Some of the words there has to be a majority of the states and a majority of people that vote for a referendum to be successful. Just the achievement of a yes vote, let alone the positive constitutional change in 1967, was absolutely remarkable in the story of referendum in Australia. Absolutely remarkable. There are a few points I want to make about that incredible campaign back in 1967. Firstly, in 1967 has been in some ways misunderstood as a singular victory rather than a step in a far longer and more complex journey. And that's really important. The 67 referendum in itself was astounding, but it was not the whole story and certainly not part, as I say, of a far more complex and longer journey. But secondly, the second is that 50 years since that momentous vote, it bears reflecting on the elements of our community which still refuse to recognise and remember our past. And thirdly and finally, as we approach the next referendum which will see first peoples recognised in our constitution, what lessons we should take from 1967. It's no small task, I know, but I will do my best and make sure that you do get home tonight for a sleep. The 1967 campaign and that victory has been misinterpreted in the modern imagination in some ways. The referendum was not just a gift to Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities, it was actually a challenge. Celebrating the anniversary of this event is not enough. It should be a call to action. In my view, the 67 referendum laid the foundation for the next 50 years of civil, social and political rights for Aboriginal people. I know that is in contrast to the views being expressed by some people today, but I truly do believe it laid that foundation. This was an era in which Australia was emerging from the stagnantation of the Menzies years. I was born in those years. Harold Holt was in the Lodge and after decades of negotiation and stalling, he had pushed the referendum firmly into the government's agenda. The remnants of the White Australia policy were still in part in effect back in 1967 in this country. The Seekers were the Australian of the year.  The Guruji had just begun their decade-long walk-off of Wave Hill, bearing fruit to the establishment of the modern land rights movement and one of the most courageous union struggles this country has ever undertaken. Women's Liberation was on the march and we were there in the Vietnam moratoriums. And just a few years before that, Charles Perkins, Jim Spiegelman and their comrades had left Sydney University in those buses to undertake the freedom rides throughout New South Wales. They went to places like Walgood and challenged the orthodoxy of Aboriginal return servicemen not being able to access the RSL Club there in Walgood. They went to Maury and changed the face of that town where Aboriginal children could not use the public swimming pools prior to the freedom rides. Of course, they went on to Kempsey and other places where in those days Aboriginal people had to sit in front of a rope in the very front rows of the cinemas in those towns. These were the things that were happening around the 1967 referendum. For Australians, it was a time in which the whole world began to change. The ground was shifting below our feet. Our national identity and the very way we conceived ourselves was shifting. Australia is an outpost to the British Empire was beginning to face away. It was a time for constitutional change. For the first time in our history, the referendum looked winnable. Make no mistake, my friends, it is this year, as I stand here and share these words with you, 30 years since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody. 25 years on from the Marbeau decision. 20 years from the Bring Them Home report, which of course Professor Dodson has such an important role in as commissioner. I remember well, Mick, this in the big room in 1997 in Melbourne, you and that old mate launching the Bring Them Home report. The Bring Them Home report, some 20 years ago, of course for me was a watershed in Australian history. It drew a line in the sand that said that none of us could pretend and look away. None of us could say that we didn't know any more. It's 20 years since that national reconciliation invention in Melbourne and friends almost 10 years since Kevin Rudd made the apology to the Solon Generations. We owe a great debt of gratitude to the campaigners for change of that era. They set the bar high and that bar is high, but it is high for a reason. It is high for us to challenge and to go through with this next referendum change. Without them, without those 67 campaigners, it is doubtful that these moments could have occurred. Each of those events was an answering call to the challenge of 1967, but none have been the complete response. Something is still missing. This project is far from over. There is still a truth which remains untold and acknowledged, and which leaves the question of the Australian identity unresolved. When I was four years old in 961, Sir Robert Menzies hosted a delegation of Aboriginal people from the mainland states to talk about the constitutional change of 67. They had already been fighting for years to see a referendum held which would grant Aboriginal people equal rights. There was considerable excitement among the attendees. A meeting with the Prime Minister was in itself a victory for a community almost completely excluded from the political process at that point. Menzies served the guest alcoholic drinks. Menzies served the guest alcoholic drinks. Our Prime Minister at the time was shocked when informed by one of the delegates. I think he was from Queensland that said that it was illegal under state law. In other words, alcohol could not be served to Aboriginal people. The Prime Minister did not know that and was very shocked when informed by the attendees that his act of serving alcohol was illegal under particular state laws. Such was the denial of truth and the refusal to see discrimination in our country at that time. The sitting Prime Minister was himself unaware of this discrimination. This 67 referendum brought Aboriginal people into the broader consciousness. The significance of that vote was not so much in the mechanical constitutional change by the embrace of a yes vote. The referendum did not create an equal playing field for Aboriginal people. We still see that today. It did not end discrimination. Discrimination which we still see today just think Michael O'Loughlin just in the last year as one example. But there is no question friends that it was a high watermark for the relationship between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people. Our victory was a double-edged sword however. Even once we were allowed into that room our voices remained muted. That limited progress also came with a kind of forgetfulness. The view that 67 was the end of the discrimination story is if not consciously held certainly self-consciously pervasive. Increasingly the community cannot imagine a world in which discrimination is socially accepted and so they started to believe it never really was of that it was ancient history. And of course you know and I know it is not ancient history. I was recently just the other night a guest on the Andrew Bolt TV show. It's not something I usually rush home to watch but it was important because I have always and continue to hold the view that we must engage with voices which do not agree with us. In that interview Mr Bolt repeatedly made reference to a new apartheid in Australia. This apartheid was purportedly being imposed on the Australian community by the National Rugby League Indigenous Round. In artwork Mr Bolt found offensive in Melbourne and a push for a new referendum on constitutional change. The question was it was creating a apartheid in Australia and it was divisive and it was also obviously very wrong. The idea behind that allegation doesn't bear examination. It is patently observed. Andrew Bolt's football induced discomfort does not quite compare to Mandela's 27 years in prison to the ban to education system to the ban on mixed marriages in South Africa to the ghettos in Soweto certainly not the deaths in Sharpeville. So what does but what does require exploration is the terminology. The use of that word doesn't just imply hostility towards Indigenous issues. It belies a willful blindness about our past. A apartheid did exist in this country for much of its history though we didn't call it that in Australia. It existed when the first people's children were removed from their families simply because they were Aboriginal. It existed when those for us on reserves had to ask permission just to marry and to move in on and off those reserves. We were denied education beyond the standard required for most menial jobs. We could serve in the military but not drink in the same pubs as our fellow soldiers or enjoy the same benefits on returning back from the wars. We're denied entry to public bails and cinemas and for long hard days spent in the saddle paid with tobacco, salt and rancid meat where our mothers and grandmothers were denied the right to even try on their wedding dresses because if they didn't buy them no one else would buy them. When we who had been custodians of this place for eternity were denied the right to own it or even vote on how it was governed but conservative voices feel free to throw around this term lightly nonetheless precisely because they do not remember this history although I refuse to know it. This view isn't uncommon. I was told by a conservative senator when filming a documentary early in 2016 that the constitution has stood the test of time. It has allowed you to become elected to the parliament. I partly reminded Cory Bernardi that he had and had to remind him that the 1967 referendum and constitutional reform ended some of the discrimination which would have kept me out of the parliament. And I have routinely received correspondence in my office arguing that the 1967 referendum was enough. You've already had one vote to get another. It is troubling how quickly these memories have slipped away from the collective consciousness. I make this point because all these decades on from that vote we need to remind the community that this discrimination is not ancient history. That this discrimination is still permitted by our constitution and that this fight is not over. Section 51 of our national constitution does not just implicitly allow racial discrimination it explicitly condones it. In 1957 was the year I was born in Country New South Wales. Yes, I have just turned 60. For 10 years I lived under for the first 10 years of my life I lived it as an invisible person to the New South Wales government and to everyone else as did many of my Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander brothers and sisters here tonight. We lived it as invisible people up until the change in 67. I was 10 years old. 90.88% 90.88% in fact we may as well say 91% of the Australian population voted yes in the 67 referendum. It was as close a moment to the national unity as anyone could hope for. In no state did the yes vote fall below 80%. I don't remember the referendum explicitly but I do remember there was something exciting going on at that time as a small child. But I know that before I was 10 I was in some way a non-citizen or at best a second class one. When I gave my first speech in Parliament I said that as a young Aboriginal person looking into the mirror of our country was difficult.  The referendum did help to change that for so many. In every sense this was a true nation building moment. The entire community Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal voted together to make our constitution a less discriminatory document. Counting Aboriginal people in the census could hardly be described as the most compelling discussion. As far as functions of government go it is one that is the least exciting unless you had the computer said no last year. Remember the census debacle and the question posed to the people was not a rhetorically emotive one. This was the question posed to the people in 1967 but I want you to think what it meant for Aboriginal people but what it also did to help us walk taller. It said this Do you approve the proposed law for the alteration of the constitution entitled an act to alter the constitution so as to admit certain words relating to the people of the Aboriginal race in any state and so that Aboriginals are to be counted in the constitution. That was the question. Taken at face value that proposal struggles to capture the public imagination and so the campaigners were smart for the referendum. They framed it differently. They framed it as a debate about the citizenship and franchise of Aboriginal people. The question stopped being about the mechanics of government and became one about the fundamental dignity and rights of citizens. The campaigners of the 67 referendum knew what they were doing. They crafted it as a referendum on fundamental issues of equality and the proposal was in many ways a modest one. There is now a famous photo of my friend the late Faith Bandler, her daughter Lillon and Bishop Garnsey campaigning in 1967 their hand made posters said count us together make us one people. It was a simple but deeply powerful message one which stripped away the bureaucratic reality of the proposed changes and transformed them into something more profound. There can be no doubt that the question which went to the people on May 27 in 1967 all those years ago was not one favored by all Aboriginal people. Treaty, a separate sovereign state and parallel parliaments for all ideas proposed at various times along the path but the leaders of the movement back in 67 saw that the price of purity was defeat. They compromised. They proposed positive constitutional change and a vote on equality which they knew they could win. The community finally after prodding campaigning and advocacy recognized the rights of Aboriginal people to exist in this country as equals. They knew that their victory on that day would pave the way for more in the future. It was what Faith Bandler called the long game. From the steps of the Australian Hall in 1938 where a group of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal activists protested their day of mourning for the first time to the referendum to Mabo and Native title. This was all part of a very long game. So we came from that day of protest in 1938 through which where we are now sitting in this hall looking at the prospect, looking at the possibility of another constitutional change and my friends it is a long game. My old Aunt Esther who is now 83 a little girl in the front row of that famous photo from 1938. The work of so many great greats went into this project. Jesse Street, William Cooper, Pearl Gibbs, Bruce McGinnis, Alan Duncan and the list is endless and goes on. We will soon vote again my friends and I hope to see Australia's first people recognized in our national birth certificate. If we succeed it will be a momentous moment of truth telling and will be crucial in achieving change because we cannot do without a national healing. We will all walk taller if there is that national healing. In the 1967 referendum it was about having the status of Aboriginal people formally recognize as much as it was about having the Australian community vote on it. We are approaching our next referendum on first people's issues and it is imperative that it succeeds. If it does we will finally have a national compact which recognizes and acknowledges our true history and tells the truth and depending on the proposal which is put forward one which no longer implicitly endorses racial discrimination within the constitution of this country. But to do this we have to learn the lessons of the 1967 referendum as Professor Dodson said. We must accept that no matter how just and well crafted the proposal put forward is it will mean not if it is not winnable and that is no small task. When it comes to rewriting our constitution the community is conservative only 8 out of the 44 referendums that have been put to the Australian people have passed successfully. Indeed in 1937 Sir Robert Menzies put forward a proposal to make aviation a federal government responsibility on the basis that planes didn't really recognize state boundaries and it was defeated. Referendums are inherently political. We must do our best to win not only the policy but the political one as well. That means engaging with the opponents just as the 1967 referendum people did. It means recognizing that some people will be afraid of change they might even insensitly call it a part time. These attempts to engender fear in the community are fundamentally dishonest and cowardly but they are part of the debate. It could mean for many people that the changes proposed don't go far enough we have to understand those feelings. It means compromising and as I said it means being political. A small community can be won over by a huge margin but it means nothing if they cannot convince the broader one. Recognition will need to be owned by all of us it will be an opportunity for all of us to take ownership of the very real history of discrimination but also the incredible story that is the oldest living culture on earth. Those who seek to amend our constitution to recognize Aboriginal people also need to recognize that every citizen has a stake in that document and that's really important. It is not just Aboriginal people that will vote on this country and there must be ownership. They must recognize that parliaments will not subjugate their authority without very compelling reasons. Constitutional reform is not the business for the naive it is not the business for the faint-hearted. At least one lesson from the 67 referendum and the campaign which came before it more than any other the imperative for pragmatism. Another must surely be the need for political leadership. I am troubled by reports that while a plebiscite of same-sex marriage receipts funding in the latest federal budget there is no money allocated for this forthcoming referendum which will happen next year. For all of us best efforts over the past few years we have seen a lot of progress and progress for all of us best efforts over the last 50 years first peoples remained distinctly separate from the broader community and there is no question about the social justice imperative in identity and the outcomes. This fight for social justice which Professor Dodson so eloquently explained so many years ago when he was the social justice commissioner said this what focus what focuses you in the morning a house with adequate water supply cooking facilities an ability to nourish your children and send them to school it is a prospect of a life of choices and that is a major and important imperative but the truth is but the truth is is that is to treat the malaise like the aboriginal communities until the broader community can accept the truth of our history what is taking place in our communities from a social justice perspective must be understood and must be factored in to the feelings of aboriginal people but of course it has to be about truth in accepting our history aboriginal affairs policy is today more than it has been in the late 1970s deeply, deeply paternalistic a new referendum will not only reform our constitution it will renew the compact made 50 years ago this year it will be a signal that all Australians have to stay in this and like our acknowledgement earlier this evening on a far grander scale a signal of openness to the reconciliation project I've talked often about the power of truth telling inspired by Dr. Alex Bahrain the deputy chair of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission at the reconciliation convention as I said 20 years ago back in 97 Dr. Alex Bahrain outlined the imperatives the planks, the anchors of reconciliation they are reciprocity restitution and the most difficult of all the craft of truth telling as a nation will not end the patronising paternalism of government policy for aboriginal people until this truth is told and we can reconcile our past with our present our next referendum will be an opportunity friends to do that but it will not be painless the 67ers knew that they made some progress but that it wasn't the end they understood the value of pragmatism and the necessity of politics they understood that progress is always slow painfully so but they understood the long game and they also saw the opportunity that could not be wasted I will not waste this opportunity and I say to you importantly, neither must you thank you I've got some fans here Linda's kindly agreed to take a few questions and we wind up this evening so anybody's got a question or maybe even a comment yes wait for the microphone please Andrew and I know each other very well we spent a month together travelling through New Zealand and Australia constitutional reform clearly clearly we had different views about that I understand his argument to be that if there is a recognition of Aboriginal people the Aboriginal story and the Australian constitution is somehow or rather divides us as a nation and creates two separate systems of rights we're one group that being the Aboriginal people have more rights than the rest of the population clearly that's an argument that is not correct and it seems to me that that is going to be I suspect one of the main arguments that those that will put forward a no-case to constitutional reform in the non-Aboriginal community in particular will run it will be based on fear it will be based on a different set of rights when in fact those two things are not legitimate in the way in which we're moving forward in terms of framing the referendum yes just have to wait for the microphone I think I think that's going to be a very important part of the debate did everyone hear that question there's a number of points that I'd like to make in relation to that it is certainly true that there is a very a very alive debate within the Aboriginal community about the value of constitutional reform how it sits with treaty is it instead of treaty and of course the issues around sovereignty are very important as well the way that I approach that and I'm clearly someone that is going to argue strongly and has argued strongly that constitutional reform is important and as I made my point in the paper it's not everything it's not meant to be everything and in many ways when you look at the issue of treaty and sovereignty which have been very important issues that people like Ann myself and others have have heard and been part of and been supporters of for a very long time I don't believe and I think it's spurious that the argument being promoted that you can either have treaty or constitutional reform and not both I think that is a a mischievous argument the South Australian Government and the Victorian Government and I understand the Northern Territory Government are very much looking at beginning treaty discussions with the Aboriginal peoples within those states and territories and I suspect that they will be a flow on in other states and territories as well the question is well what do we mean when we say treaty is it about fiscal arrangements, is it about things like places, is it about handbags, is it compensation is it changing names so there needs to be an understanding of what we're talking about there and I would also argue that Aboriginal people have never negotiated our sovereignty and for me that exists there was never a negotiation with Aboriginal people when King George or whoever it was decided that Australia should belong to Great Britain and in many ways the notion of treaty depending on how you want to describe it there are many treaty like arrangements already in existence across this country they're called Indigenous land use agreements they exist between governments and individual Aboriginal nations or individual Aboriginal groups whether it's through native title determinations whether it's through use of resources in the mining industry you look at the Noongar agreement in Western Australia there are many of those agreements that exist across the country and in many ways they could be seen as treaty like arrangements but what is very clear and politically we would be naive not to understand that there is a great desire within the Aboriginal community about a proper discussion and a proper a proper progression of agreement making processes and discussions within this country that is not instead of that is not in place of that should happen alongside my view of constitutional recognition I get that question a lot I'm sorry I've been looking over that way you know a lot of non-Aboriginal people say oh we feel like we really like to do something what is it we can do how can I get involved and my response is always this and it's been something that I have tried to live my life by is that governments can make great proclamations you know very famous people can make decisions and do things in various arenas but it is the humble acts it's the personal acts of individuals like yourselves that make the big difference so don't ever feel that I am just one person swirling around in a very difficult situation or whether it's social justice issues or Aboriginal people and what I do doesn't make a difference because it does it's what you have read what you watch what you believe in what you understand what you talk to your friends about the very fact that you've attended this forum tonight is exactly what what you're asking me the question about you come to listen to the views of Aboriginal people and those humble acts those small acts put them all together you can change a nation and that's how it's done I can't hardly see you but I can hear you in 1901 the states have been responsible for the welfare of and making the laws for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in those states and I'm wondering if the suggested change the constitution would mean that states are no longer responsible for making laws for Aboriginal people in those states because I've known for example that in some states today Aboriginal people aren't committed to Professor Dodson is probably in a much better position to answer that question than any I don't know if you want to have a crack at that the answer is no, the short answer is no it won't affect the capacity well it depends on what you do I guess but if you're seeking to take out discriminatory parts of the existing constitution that's not going to affect jurisdiction in this area of states and really Cornwall has never been without jurisdiction the 67 referendum actually included us in something we're previously excluded from and from a legal point of being a very negative way because it allows discrimination but not one depending on what the wording is but it won't affect the capacity of someone that will be next will that be the next next section to change discriminatory laws within states you know if you took out some of the provisions of the Commonwealth Commonwealth power makes special laws the Commonwealth still left with a lot of power particularly with the constitutional override power Commonwealth law override state law statutory law and also the racial discrimination act would have to be have to do a bit of work I just take two more questions and then I think there's some refreshments on the side come on this side I'm an old school teacher what's wrong with you fellas there's one here first this lady here hello this can be very difficult particularly with such historical and painful topics and as you said the truth telling in our country has not been so strong and as things of your interactions with other politicians and how you maintain your dignity and integrity on such meaningful I'm pleased you think I retain my dignity so similar to the other question about sort of in day to day and how you sort of it I just think sure I'm not quite sure I think that's just the way you decide how you want to live your life I've and you know as you get a bit older you get a bit more decisive I suppose about what you're going to put up with and what you're not going to put up with the most important thing is to understand that not everyone thinks the same there will be people that will have absolutely diametrically opposing views to you and will believe as strongly as you do in the things that you believe in and I have always had I was raised by my great aunt and uncle who remarkably were born in the late 1890s so you figure out the sums there in the 1960s when they took me on as a little baby you're raised with lots of homilies a stitch in time saves nine and all that kind of stuff but I was always raised to understand that the best way to convince people is by respectful discussion and I was also raised to understand that you get more flies with honey than vinegar and I've kind of used that a fair bit we've got we've had a lot of questions on your left an interest of balance we'll have some on the right one here and one there not that I normally lead that way the girl I wasn't making any a legal statement there the lady there and the gent I think up there on the other side of the someone put their hand up over here but you first and then that that last person you're the second last do you mean the cash dress welfare car? no not so much that I've consulted it's been trialled in communities that are a majority religious so what's your name? Lynn what Lynn is speaking about is the two trials that are being undertaken at the moment by the federal government in relation to what's being called the cashless welfare card now that is a card that quarantines 80% of your Centrelink payment and you have discretion with 20% of it and it is in Seduna and in Kananara in Western Australia I spent some time in Kananara recently with Jenny Macklin and the government has in its budget allocated money for two more trial sites and my understanding is that they're having difficulty finding any other communities that have been up for those trial sites the position of the Labour Party and I will speak carefully about this is that we do not support the roll out of the cashless welfare card across the country and we also are very skeptical about the interim report that's been produced that is being said that this has been a great success because when you actually read those reports properly it is clear it has not been a great success there are people who passionately believe in the card there are people that diametrically oppose it and there are some people in the middle that just say things are so bad in our community we're willing to give it a go but our position is very clear is that we don't support the roll out of the card and we are going to wait for the next six months where there will be a final report and we are also very very clear on the fact that unless there is a unanimous support from the community that this card is wanted in the community it's not just the Shire council or the mayor or the police or whoever saying this is what's needed or the politicians in fact it has to be absolutely agreed on by the whole community unless that's the case and that's up to the community then but the Labour Party is yet to be convinced that it is such a great idea okay we did have one last one there but they seem to didn't want to be identified as being on Linda's right I know that person yes that's a very complex question and your answer will be depend who you are my response on the surface is no but it is interesting that the states are moving towards that negotiation most states and territories have their own constitution and most of those constitutions recognise Aboriginal people that's really important to understand now would there be the capacity for a national treaty I think there's a long way to go with that discussion there's certainly been a proposal in the past but as I said it would have to be clear about what that is around at a national level you would have to think it would be around fiscal arrangements and self-governance so the answer is no it wouldn't impede it but there is a huge discussion to be had in relation to what a treaty or treaties in that context would look like and what they would embrace okay folks that brings an end to these proceedings would you mind joining us for some refreshments in the foyer but before we do could you join me in once again thanking Linda for her presence


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Overcome anxiety and fear by embracing this one biblically grounded truth. There still may be a process you undergo in order to overcome the patterns of panic and anxiety. But at least for me, this thought really helped to set things in perspective. The Lord never promised that things wouldn't go wrong. He promised to be with us when they do. In fact, trials aren't a sign that God's rejected you or that the devil is winning. Trials can build your faith. So, no matter what happens, the Lord is with you. And the troubles will serve a positive purpose. So, here's that thought. Fear asks what if faith declares even if. Instead of letting your mind play through the worst case scenarios, embrace the fact that sometimes things go right. And yes, sometimes things do go wrong. But what should we fear? Pain, loss, suffering, death? Even if those should occur, we are victorious in Christ. And even if we should experience the worst, ultimately, we're in His love.