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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda's Oh you may have heard this news

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Speaker 1: story that over the long weekend neo Nazi right wing

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Speaker 1: thugs descended in a part of western Victoria. The Grampians

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Speaker 1: Anti Terrorism Squad from Victoria Police are investigating it, but

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Speaker 1: they have done nothing illegal. It's called freedom of speech,

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Speaker 1: appallingly because they haven't yet been classified as a terrorist group.

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Speaker 1: But they are about forty members of a Nazi group,

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Speaker 1: the National Socialist Network, and they call indigenous Australian subhuman.

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Speaker 1: They've called for a white revolution. They are Hitler worshippers.

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Speaker 1: People saw them chanting white power and chanting klu Klux Klan.

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Speaker 1: They marched with swastikas and did Hitler salutes and had

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Speaker 1: the swastikas Hitler salutes. They had stickers power to the

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Speaker 1: white man. This is absolutely, absolutely terrifying. And Josh Friedenberg

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Speaker 1: spoke about this yesterday, our treasurer. He said that there

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Speaker 1: is anti Semitism and Holocaust denial is on the rise

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Speaker 1: in our country. We've seen this overseas to the white supremacists,

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Speaker 1: as we saw so many of them storming the Capitol

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Speaker 1: in the States just a few weeks ago. And he

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Speaker 1: said that Holocaust education is part of the response. But

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Speaker 1: he also said that there's a rise in historical revisionism.

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Speaker 1: And I saw a story just a few weeks ago

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Speaker 1: that really was appalling. People are denying the Holocaust, but

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Speaker 1: people on teenagers on TikTok are doubting the existence of

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Speaker 1: Helen Keller. I've heard this. This is unbelievable. Now, Helen Keller,

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Speaker 1: there is film footage of this woman. She is an author, activist,

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Speaker 1: a disability rights act activist. She was deaf and blind

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Speaker 1: at childbirth, learned to communicate using hand gestures and to

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Speaker 1: understand others through the Toudoma method, and she learned how

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Speaker 1: to speak. She attended Harvard. She wrote twelve books and

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Speaker 1: many essays and lectures. Her autobiograph was adapted for film

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Speaker 1: and stage. She traveled the world as a campaigner for

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Speaker 1: civil rights, labor rights, and women's suffrage. Her birthplace is

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Speaker 1: a museum. And yet people don't believe her story. A

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Speaker 1: modern generation doesn't believe her story. Some of them doubt

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Speaker 1: the existence of her at all. Others are saying that yes,

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Speaker 1: she existed, but doubt the level of her disability because

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Speaker 1: they can't believe that she was deaf and blind and

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Speaker 1: was able to communicate and write books, all that amazing

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Speaker 1: work she did to encourage others with disabilities, and she

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Speaker 1: is being denied her existence. I just find it absolutely extraordinary.

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Speaker 1: And so as we say, as Josh Friedenberg said, as

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Speaker 1: other people are saying, we can't allow history to be

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Speaker 1: wiped out because people can't see it because it's not

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Speaker 1: tangible to them. Today, they don't believe this, and people

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Speaker 1: are rewriting history. And an article I was reading said

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Speaker 1: until so some as a whole takes a more nuanced

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Speaker 1: attitude to disability, Prejudices such as these will continue to exist.

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Speaker 1: All we can do now is have a conversation with

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Speaker 1: the teenagers in our lives, because this is all from

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Speaker 1: TikTok about Helen Keller and ableism and how social media

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Speaker 1: spreads disinformation to the point where anyone can claim someone

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Speaker 1: is not real. So talk to your kids about the Holocaust.

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Speaker 1: If this stuff comes up in conversation, if you hear

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Speaker 1: these conversations in your home, shut them down. Then we

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Speaker 1: need to do it on a bigger level too, and

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Speaker 1: we need to do it in our houses with our teenagers.

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Speaker 1: Also terrifying, and it's terrifying if Helen Keller was wearing

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Speaker 1: a Brazilian bikini and had a butt lift and an

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Speaker 1: Insta profile, then probably people would listen to her. Well,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if that was her way, but maybe

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Speaker 1: you're right. Jonesy and Amanda's Nation