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Inspiring change for First Nations representation in museums

Disrupting reductionist museum practices through working with First Nations communities.

Australia’s First Nations people need healing – of our families, our lands and waters

Naidoc week’s ‘Heal Country’ theme demonstrates the need for an awakening that respects the uniqueness of 60,000 years of Aboriginal custodianship

Luke Pearson

The rise of “the rise of anti-white racism” in Australia

Luke Pearson eviscerates the groups that would impress upon us that there is 'anti-white' racism and speaks to its origins and the farce that is "the motion."

Critical Race Theory – what isn’t it?

Smarter people than us can write what it is, but we thought we'd have a crack at what it definitely isn't.

Shelley Ware

Righting the wrongs: teachers must fight ignorance of Aboriginal history with education and break the cycle

Educators need to take initiative to fill gaps in their learning so our next generation can know true Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture.

Luke Pearson

Appropriate terminology for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people – it’s complicated.

I run a media, training and consultancy company called IndigenousX. It is 100% Indigenous owned and staffed. We work on local, regional, national, and international…

Australia needs more social housing. That’s it

Our society is heading for a collapse unless we protect the most vulnerable instead of holding them to a higher standard than the rest of us

Cammi Murrup-Stewart

9 months pregnant and Aboriginal

Dr Cammi Murrup-Stewars says that her identity as an Aboriginal woman existing within a settler-colonial world means that her child will always be at risk. That no reconciliation action plan can ensure her daughter's safety. This is what it means to live in the colony as an Indigenous parent.

Black Australia to Palestine: solidarity in decolonial struggle

There is no end in sight to these modern-day forms of colonial violence inflicted upon our peoples by these two liberal democratic states, Australia and Israel. Grief, sorrow and anger bind us together as we face the attempted elimination of our Peoples. Together, we understand the role that racism has played in both our histories and current contexts.

Hayley McQuire

Teaching Australia’s truth is an opportunity for all young people

Some will say that it’s too political, but right now is an opportunity for everyone to back the proposed change in the school curriculum

William Tilmouth

Reconciliation in Action 2021

Government policies have been just another way to restrict our Freedoms, to remove our rights. To take away our choice, destroy our dignity and ability to contribute to our cultural practices and norms.

Steve Hodder Watt

What can be Reconciled?

Events such as Reconciliation Week and NAIDOC are important but adequate action is required immediately, action that includes letting our peoples run our lives on our terms, as per the Articles in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Sissy Austin

The fight for Djab Wurrung

Djab Wurrung woman Sissy Austin tells us that despite losing an element of our country, the fight continues this week with the three day Supreme Court trial.

Paul Gray

Governments must let go of their power over the lives of Australia’s First Nations children

Without structural change, child protection systems will continue to fail Indigenous families.

Cherisse Buzzacott

I supported other women to have babies but faced my own battle alone

As an Aboriginal woman, I felt the expectation to have children. All the while, I was in a battle which many face alone

Dr Tracy Westerman

We must raise the age of criminal responsibility, here is why

As an Indigenous psychologist who has dedicated decades to prevention efforts the core of my argument is that locking children up is ineffective as a crime prevention measure.

Meriki Onus

“I want to be known as a Gundijtmara activist”

Meriki Onus sits down with her Nan, Alma Thorpe, to discuss her amazing life as a communist, an Aboriginal Health Worker and above all, a Gundijtmara activist.

Tameeka Tighe

There’s a link between the over-policing of Indigenous kids and our people dying in custody

Our children’s innocence is stolen, and the system presents them with a life in and out of prison

Inspiring change for First Nations representation in museums

Australia’s First Nations people need healing – of our families, our lands and waters

The rise of “the rise of anti-white racism” in Australia

Critical Race Theory – what isn’t it?

Righting the wrongs: teachers must fight ignorance of Aboriginal history with education and break the cycle

Appropriate terminology for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people – it’s complicated.

Australia needs more social housing. That’s it

9 months pregnant and Aboriginal

Black Australia to Palestine: solidarity in decolonial struggle

Teaching Australia’s truth is an opportunity for all young people

Reconciliation in Action 2021

What can be Reconciled?

The fight for Djab Wurrung

Governments must let go of their power over the lives of Australia’s First Nations children

I supported other women to have babies but faced my own battle alone

We must raise the age of criminal responsibility, here is why

“I want to be known as a Gundijtmara activist”

There’s a link between the over-policing of Indigenous kids and our people dying in custody

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