Tag: Aboriginal Australians

Rupture in Remote Australia

Arena Quarterly no.13

Melinda Hinkson, Jon Altman

Mar 2023

Australians are being asked to vote in support of the constitutional establishment of an Indigenous Voice to Parliament while the work of successive governments, Coalition and Labor alike, has been complicit in the killing of First Nations people.

What the meaning of Don Dale Is

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John B. Lawrence SC

9 Mar 2023

The prison’s survival is a measure of our country’s moral decline.

Changing Fire Imaginaries: Walking together to reap the ethical and practical benefits of cultural burning

Arena Quarterly no.12

Danielle Couch, Mick Bourke, Amos Atkinson, Sally Gardner, Paul Komesaroff

Dec 2022

If a solution to the problem of fire in contemporary Australian society is to be found, it will not be at a purely technical level but will require a deep cultural and psychic reorientation.

I’m still Dreaming of a Black Xmas stamp

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Humphrey McQueen

3 Nov 2022

In over sixty-six years of Christmas stamps, Australia has never issued one featuring an Aboriginal artwork, let alone a Black Virgin and Christ child.

Statement Against Racism in Western Australia

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John Kinsella

3 Nov 2022

Colonialism is a system of violent occupation, theft and exclusion, and systematising of this occupation through generations and into any imagined future.

Booming contributions by First Nations to address Australia’s environmental crisis must be recognised

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Heidi Norman, Jon Altman, Bhiamie Williamson, Francis Markham

3 Aug 2022

It is time for climate-change policies and programs at regional, state and federal levels to respond to the productive ‘climate action’ of First Nations people with recognition and respect, and equitable resourcing to allow it to flourish.

Indigenous Child Abuse Continues in Australia

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John B. Lawrence SC

29 Jun 2022

No human being should be held in such a dystopian relic, let alone a troubled Indigenous child.

Unexplained Ordnance: A Missile on Aboriginal Land and a Breakthrough Legal Complaint

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Michelle Fahy

21 Apr 2022

Saab, a Swedish multinational, had instant access at the most senior level, to both the state and federal government agencies responsible for dealing with the Saab missile problem, yet Andrew and Robert Starkey were fobbed off by all concerned.

Unexplained Ordnance: Missile in the Western Desert Sparks a Landmark Case

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Michelle Fahy

4 Feb 2022

Australia hasn’t seen anything like this case before. In fact, in the world of OECD complaints, it’s a first.

Darwin Calling

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John B. Lawrence SC

9 Dec 2021

The reality, the ‘truth’ of this situation, is that there is no way in the world white Australian children would be detained in such a place. This really is apartheid. How has Australia descended this low?

Myall Creek: A Need for Deeper Reconciliation

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Maurits Zwankhuizen

30 Sep 2021

When one stands at this memorial, one should be able to look beyond the sacred space, beyond the granite boulder, to land that honours the original inhabitants, land that welcomes all, land teeming with native wildlife instead of introduced cattle and sheep. Isn’t that the ultimate memorial, the ultimate act of reconciliation?

The full truth of the past: native title and the Yoo-rrook Justice Commission

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Bhiamie Williamson

16 Sep 2021

For Aboriginal people, formal recognition and, in particular, native title cannot be consigned to the margins or made invisible in the pursuit of truth and justice.