The idea that the proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament is only useful if it undoes colonial problems is paternalism at its worst.
I was due to speak at a Melbourne Writers’ Festival event on Sunday to discuss an Australian republic. After the Queen died on Friday,the event was cancelled,against my wishes.
When it really mattered,Malcolm Turnbull rejected the Voice,rather than accepting the invitation to work with First Nations people to galvanise public support.
“Self-defence” is a justification that has become all too familiar when it comes to Aboriginal victims and white perpetrators.
Ash Barty,like Cathy Freeman and Evonne Goolagong-Cawley before her,has shown that there is no force equal to a First Nations woman standing in her power.
Not knowing how they contracted the virus,they are bearing the burden of potentially infecting their families.
Most First Nations people in Australia live in Sydney yet often the COVID focus is on remote communities.
Our @blackfulla_bookclub is gaining momentum. You too can share in the riches of First Nations stories.
Northern Territory legislators have enacted abhorrent new laws that will condemn a new generation of Indigenous youths to unnecessary incarceration and injustice.
The announcement of a national curriculum proposal to teach school students of this continent’s invasion is an important day in our history.
Thirty years after the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody,Australia has unfinished business.