Tag: colonialism

Lest We Forget: The Harmful Policy Legacies of the Northern Territory Intervention

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Jon Altman

24 Jun 2021

Fourteen years on, one looks back sadly at the devastation and havoc wreaked by the Intervention, with contemporary morbidity—long-term ill effects—experienced by many whom the imposed measures were supposed to heal and restore.

‘It’s Raining Motorcars’: Mining and the destruction of Aboriginal Sacred Sites

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Jack Green, Seán Kerins

20 May 2021

We were out in Gudanji country, a place some of us older people know well. But we didn’t know where we were. The river had gone, huge mountains of waste rock were piled high in the sky, blocking our view of The Barramundi Dreaming… We were lost in our own country.

Missing a Nakba in 2021 is unforgiveable

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Micaela Sahhar, Nader Ruhayel

14 May 2021

Across a differential and fragmentary geography in all of historic Palestine, the structure of settler colonialism, which has until this point been invisible, is now visible.

Militarising Bulldozers: Demolition in Israel/Palestine as Settler-Colonial Policy

Arena Quarterly no. 6

Jeff Halper

Jun 2021

Is the solution a two-state solution...or should we be looking for a process of decolonisation?

‘Recover the land to recover everything’: The patient journey of the Colombian Cauca Regional Indigenous Council

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Paulo Ilich Bacca, Daniela Jiménez González

1 Apr 2021

The land is not only a physical space in which to live with dignity but also it is the source of Indigenous laws: indeed, mainstream representations of Indigenous territories, taking into consideration the topographic and biologic dimensions of the earth’s surface, have forgotten the pluriverse of organic and inorganic beings that make and negotiate their social living together with Indigenous peoples’ ecological and spiritual relations.

Again and Again: Settler-colonial extractivism and the Juukan Gorge inquiry’s interim report

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Jon Altman, Dan Tout

17 Dec 2020

…it seems the First Nations of Australia will be left with another empty promise that governments and mining companies, together so invested in their ongoing dispossession, will act in good faith to ‘protect’ them and their heritage. Surely nobody can reasonably believe this by now.

Justice Beyond Recognition: What Djab Wurrung Trees Tell Us

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Sakshi Aravind

26 Nov 2020

Systematic overwriting of one form of injustice with another reiterates the claim that settler law is not on the side of the First Nations. The innate unfairness in the system begets greater injustice by weighing economic interests against Indigenous rights that are incommensurable.

For Djab Wurrung trees and country

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Melinda Hinkson

5 Nov 2020

In nearly all cases where states require associations of traditional connection to be publicly performed in order to be recognised, the persons called upon and authorised to perform them have had their associations fractured by colonial dispossession.

‘The Aboriginal Gulag’: The Northern Territory’s Criminal Legal System

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John B. Lawrence SC

22 Oct 2020

It is no longer an overworked, under-resourced and at times chaotic legal system. It is now not fit for purpose and has become a depraved jailing machine consuming Aboriginal men, women and children at an ever-increasing rate.

Whatever It Takes: The politics of Indigenous vulnerability and extracted futures in northern Australia

Arena Quarterly no. 3

Lisa Stefanoff

Sep 2020

Blink and you’ll miss the Northern Territory on national COVID-19 graphs. Almost 34,000 tests have been conducted here since March. All 34 positively diagnosed people, mostly returned travellers, have recovered. No community transmission, no deaths.

When betrayal dresses up as patriotism

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Ali Kazak

20 Aug 2020

The US, Israeli and Emirati tripartite declaration of normalisation of relations ... has nothing to do with solving the Palestine question or helping to promote peace in the Middle East, and everything to do … with supporting US president Donald Trump’s campaign to win a second term in office as well as boosting Benjamin Netanyahu’s hold on power…

Will the Australian project end as it began?

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Guy Rundle

14 Jul 2020

The counter-narrative would be that it is we, not China, that are isolated in the region: white, settler, a firm US ally, happy to support a US- and Europe-dominated world order at the UN, and to give no real recognition to the narrative that joins billions of East Asians together: that for a century or so they were dominated, exploited and humiliated by white imperial powers, and that they are now on the way to…