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☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻<p>Day five: Multi-cultural bullshit </p><p>“Chinese language <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/influencers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>influencers</span></a> who mostly post lifestyle content are interviewing election candidates on the social media app <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Rednote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rednote</span></a>, allowing politicians to bypass an apparent “shadow ban” on <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/campaigning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>campaigning</span></a> by the app and reach a disengaged but vital audience.</p><p>The interviews with influencers who usually post about food, real estate and shopping have been published on a platform that is not actively monitored by the Australian Electoral Commission due to Rednote’s scale and the commission’s resources.</p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/ScottYung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScottYung</span></a>, the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Liberal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Liberal</span></a> candidate for the ultra-marginal Sydney seat of <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Bennelong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bennelong</span></a>, where almost one-third of residents have <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Chinese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chinese</span></a> ancestry, has featured in multiple interviews shared by <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Mandarin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mandarin</span></a> speaking influencers on Rednote in recent weeks.”</p><p>I note Scotty (another Scotty) highlighted himself due to State campaigning irregularities in 2019. Johhny (War crimes) Howard is all over the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Bennelong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bennelong</span></a> campaign. Howard, one step away from <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/CCP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CCP</span></a> influence campaign. Handy Andy Hastings will be in fits. </p><p>This isn’t a “Chinese thing”, this is a “Politics thing” where a multicultural background is weaponised for candidates against the rest of Australian <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/voters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>voters</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Spruiking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Spruiking</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/campaigning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>campaigning</span></a> &lt;<a href="https://theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/02/candidates-using-influencers-to-bypass-shadow-ban-on-campaigning-by-chinese-social-media-app-rednote" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/australia-news</span><span class="invisible">/2025/apr/02/candidates-using-influencers-to-bypass-shadow-ban-on-campaigning-by-chinese-social-media-app-rednote</span></a>&gt; / &lt;<a href="https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/liberal-candidate-faces-more-questions-over-undisclosed-campaign-spending-20250331-p5lnxb.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">smh.com.au/national/nsw/libera</span><span class="invisible">l-candidate-faces-more-questions-over-undisclosed-campaign-spending-20250331-p5lnxb.html</span></a>&gt;</p>
Heliograph<p>Long before <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Sydney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sydney</span></a> Opera House excavations began in the 1950s, the site – known as Tubowgule – was a meeting point for the local <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Gadigal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gadigal</span></a> people of the <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Eora" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Eora</span></a> nation. </p><p>The area was strewn with the debris of family feasts and ceremonies, creating myriad ancestral middens over thousands of years.</p><p>With the arrival of the first fleet, convict women were put to work collecting the oyster shells and bones from the middens, burning them down to create the lime that formed the cement mortar that built Australia’s first Government House, which overlooks <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Bennelong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bennelong</span></a> Point to this day. </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/sep/26/sydney-opera-house-85000-oyster-shells-tell-of-sites-true-story-in-major-public-artwork" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/culture/2023/s</span><span class="invisible">ep/26/sydney-opera-house-85000-oyster-shells-tell-of-sites-true-story-in-major-public-artwork</span></a></p>