In June 2020 the legislative journey that resulted in the establishment of the Yoo-rrook Justice Commission began life in the lower house of the Victorian…

Taine Martin recalls his team's pride and effort in the 2021 UniSport Indigenous Nationals

As a former volunteer of Supanova, an Activist and the writer of this article, I myself have to express my absolute disgust that Homophobes and White Supremacists were allowed to push their propaganda at Supanova, and have decided to never attend a Supanova again.

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."

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…

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

The inquest into the death in custody of Wayne Fella Morrison continues and a team of researchers and advocates report the daily account of the inquest here.

In our communities, we all know someone that has been impacted by the criminal justice system in a harmful (often devastating) way.

This is not a numbers game. These are people, Aboriginal people, whose lives have been snuffed out in the ongoing machinery of colonisation and the carceral State.

Tony Birch says that to state that a loss of Aboriginal life results in yet another ‘death in custody’ is to use language that refuses the reality of murder in custody that we know will be failed by the system.

If we collectively support the families’ calls and call on governments to act, we can end this injustice once and for all. We cannot, and must not, wait another generation for change.

Human Rights Law Centre Director and Yorta Yorta woman, Meena Singh speaks of how little has changed and the current outcomes being a result of targeted policies.

There is a stark difference between hurting for and channeling your pain into your art, and demanding that Indigenous peoples bleed for your art so that you can tell everyone how bad colonisation and the crimes of the British Empire are.

We must love, support and protect each other at all costs. Not only through encouragement and uplifting words but by holding one another to account to uphold and protect the legacies that our old ones created.