First Nations Peoples
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We Need to Learn From Our Mistakes In the Marriage Equality Vote and Support First Nations Peoples During Voice Debates
In recent months in Australia, we have seen vigilante racism in Rockhampton, booing, abuse and vitriol directed at First Nations footy players, and the appalling treatment of First Nations children jailed in adult prisons. Racism is a major issue in the debate over the proposed First Nations Voice to Parliament – and it will likely…
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Why Has the Senate Inquiry Into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Gone Silent?
The Australian Senate’s inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women was briefly on the political agenda late last year, with little media coverage. The inquiry came after Indigenous women working across media, politics, and academia attempted to draw attention to the violence First Nations women face. Yet even as the “landmark parliamentary inquiry” was announced,…
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Alcohol Bans Haven’t Worked in the Past in Alice Springs, Here’s Why They Won’t Work Now
Since colonisation, “interventions” to curb Aboriginal “crime” and alcohol have been deployed to control and harm First Nations communities and people. Nowhere is this more true than in the Northern Territory. When these moral panics reach the national media and political stage, the response has typically been top-down policies by federal and territory governments to…
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Still We Rise: The Tent Embassy Film Every Australian Should Watch
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article about Still We Rise contains names and images of people who have died. Against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, on January 26 (Invasion Day), 1972, a small group of Indigenous activists erected The Aboriginal Tent Embassy, a site of protest against the Australian government.…