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No republic without a soul
ABORIGINAL PEOPLES AND Torres Strait Islanders have just marked two hundred and thirty years of patience with displaced Europeans....
The infantilisation of Indigenous Australians
I GREW UP in the 1990s, the daughter of a white Australian and a Torres Strait Islander. I was...
Recovering a narrative of place
At the conclusion of the project, a group of young global citizens, many of them labelled ‘disadvantaged’, many of them previously silent or ignored, shared a common belief, one as simple and yet complex as the difficulties we face in dealing with one of the great challenges of our time. The students agreed that we must listen to those who have lived with Country for thousands of years without killing it, and in order to live with a healthy planet we need to tell stories of our experience with it, and our love for it.
A rightful path
IN 1985, I started a bachelor’s degree the month I turned seventeen. Despite a change of degree from social...
Celebrating difference
I’VE EXPERIENCED THE transcendental power of switching from a toxic narrative of low expectations and negative stereotypes to a...
Beware the people-focused omnibus
ORGANISING GOVERNMENT CAN be as important as policy. In his 2017 Wentworth Lecture to the Australian Institute of Aboriginal...
My grandfather’s equality
WHAT WOULD MY grandfather make of our world today? I have wondered about that lately. What would he make...
Ancestors’ words
NO ONE WAS surprised when, in 1977, the Western Australian Government put a blanket ban on its recently decommissioned...
Lost opportunities
GRIFFITH REVIEW IS not, according to its ‘Writers’ Guidelines’, an ‘academic journal’. This leads me to pause and consider...
Decolonising the north
THE TURNBULL GOVERNMENT’S initial response to the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern...
Hope and conflict at the MCG
THE ADULTS STARE hard, looks of panic rip through the crowd. A curiously dressed man in clinical white clothing...
A century of activism and heartache
Where Aboriginal people are concerned, the twin strands of dysfunction and idealisation weave a highly coloured thread through the fabric...
