Brooke Scobie is queer Goorie single mum, poet, writer, podcaster, and community worker. Her writing is a love letter to people who’ve been systematically excluded. She’s been published in Overland Journal, Running Dog, Red Room Poetry, SBS, Best of Australian Poetry 2021, and was awarded second place in the 2020 Judith Wright Poetry Prize.
The Retrieval of the Gweagal Spears and the La Perouse Community
When the British colonised countries, they would take items from Indigenous peoples, including but not limited to cultural items and artefacts, which often end up in museums overseas. David Johnson writes, First Nations peoples here in so-called Australia have been working to have these objects returned. At the same time, Dr Shane Ingrey shares that the practice of making these objects continues today, because the knowledge to do so remains strong.
The Native Title Tribunal rules against Gomeroi people and the threat of climate change
Last week, the Native Title Tribunal (NTT) ruled again against Gomeroi people and in favour of Santos, granting the resources conglomerate permission to destroy our…
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