Kastom in Vanuatu
By Ali MCPhoto essay on Ambrym Island’s annual Yam and Magic Ceremony and the dance that goes along with it.
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Quantum Words Perth: Reflections on Language, Science and Ways of Knowing
By Sarah YeungSarah Yeung reflects on the Quantum Words festival, investigating the ways in which science and language interact through colonial discourse and Indigenous knowledges.
Voluntary Assisted Dying: A matter of life and death?
By Janelle KohIn light of the voluntary assisted dying bill currently before the Western Australian parliament, Janelle Koh considers voluntary assisted dying from a critical rights perspective, and queries whether a right to a good death may operate with unequal effect upon minority populations.
Reconnecting with a Precolonial Heritage: An Interview with Kim Scott
Sharen Bart in conversation with Kim ScottSharen Bart speaks to award-winning Noongar writer and scholar Kim Scott about Indigenous trauma, cultural recovery and what it means to be sustained by a pre-colonial heritage.
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.
How to Teach History: What Australia can learn from Pakistan
By Danish KhanDanish Khan considers the differences between the teaching of indigenous history in Australia and in Pakistan.
The Rights Pathway for Action on Climate Change?
By Jacqueline Peel and Hari M. OsofskyJacqueline Peel and Hari M. Osofsky explore whether communities vulnerable to the severe threats of climate change can claim their human rights have been breached.
Little Stones and Potholes in the Road: A conversation with Elizabeth Kuiper
Janelle Koh in conversation with Elizabeth KuiperJanelle Koh speaks with Elizabeth Kuiper about her new novel, Little Stones, and its’ portrayal of Zimbabwe’s complicated inheritance – Robert Mugabe’s legacy.
Bidjara Dreaming
By Leroy WilsonBidjara Dreaming is a poem based off true stories handed down to Leroy Wilson from his grandfather and great-grandmother from the Bidjara country
Weaponised weathers: heat, Don Dale, and ‘everything-ist’ prison abolition
By Stella MaynardOppressive heat, humidity and poor ventilation: how Australia’s carceral system weaponises more-than-human forces, like the weather.
The Personal is Political is Speculative
By Claire G. ColemanClaire G Coleman blurs the lines between the personal, political and speculative, asking us to reconsider where it is our stories come from.
Accessing the Koori Court is a Human Right
By Tal ShmerlingThe Koori Court is essential to participation by the Aboriginal community in the sentencing of Aboriginal people.