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The trench
DOCTOR JUNK STOPS his car facing the heavy white gate, from where he can see a few outlying buildings...
Less is less
A STRANGER RODE into town only it wasn’t a stranger, it was Kerry, come to say goodbye to Pop...
Hey ancestor!
Hey ancestor, you talking to me? Country time everyday. I know, I know, but wouldn’t you know it, it’s the 26th...
A new sovereign republic
Sovereignty: (1) the quality or state of having supreme power or authority; (2) the authority of a state to...
Whose heart is this
I saw through my grandmothers eyes The removal of my mother I shared my grandmothers heart I felt her pain I shared my...
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...
