Lucy Norton on Listening to Flood
By Lucy NortonLucy Norton compassionately reflects on living through the 2022 Lismore Floods and how colonial frameworks misplace our grief in light of climate events.
Tag Archives: Indigenous Australians
Australians can no longer look away from BLM
By Lena Mountford and Keenan MundineAs the world learns of police brutality in the US, Australians are too ready to ignore the deaths of Bla(c)k people in their own country.
Love and Family: a review of The White Girl
By Gabrielle EverallTony Birch’s newest book is an insight into how the laws initiating and perpetuating the Stolen Generations affected families and towns in rural Australia.
Radical Heart, the inside story of the Uluru Statement of the Heart
By Samaya ArgüelloShireen Morris takes readers on an intimate journey into the inner workings of the Uluru Statement from the Heart. Radical Heart is an important contribution to understanding the limits of constitutional reform in Australia as well as providing clear insights into exactly why this is required.
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia: a review
By Samaya ArgüelloA collection of diverse, deeply personal and insightful experiences from a range of Indigenous Australian authors.
Reflections In Visible Ink: Storytelling to Heal What Hurts
By Diana Ong, Sunili Govinnage, Emiko Watanabe and Rhuwina GriffithsParticipants from the In Visible Ink symposium reflect upon the prospects of trauma, memory and healing that emerge when we tell difficult stories.
In Visible Ink Interviews: Gina Williams and Guy Ghouse
Anika Baset in conversation with Gina Williams and Guy GhouseAnika Baset speaks with Indigenous musicians Guy Ghouse and Gina Williams about the role of music and language in healing and strengthening Indigenous communities.
Language learning connects to culture and country
Kirli Saunders in conversation with Right Now in conversation with Kirli SaundersKirli Saunders, founder of the Red Room Poetry’s Poetry in First Languages project, discusses the importance of First Nations language education and creative expression.
Unbind
By Kirli SaundersA new poem from children’s author, poet, educator and First Nations cultural consultant Kirli Saunders from her upcoming book Kindred.
A Hero Overlooked: a review of “The Missing Man”
By Heath ChamerskiPeter Rees chronicles the barriers broken down, and those still standing, in the life of Kamilaroi man Len Waters, Australia’s first Indigenous aviator.