On Sorry Day 2016, David Donovan recollects growing up in the bush and becoming aware of the struggle and pain of Indigenous Australians — and his unwitting part in it.
Category: Indigenous Australia
On the 1st of May 1946, over 800 Aboriginal stockmen walked off their jobs in a coordinated strike against their employment conditions on pastoral stations across the Pilbara. While the strike officially lasted until August 1949 many stockmen never returned to their former employment in the pastoral industry.
[
Download for free the song CLANCEY & DOOLEY & DON McLEOD in MP3 format, and the SHANE HOWARD TOUR POSTER – see below] The Western Australian Aboriginal Pastoral Workers Strike of 194…
Source: WA Aboriginal Pastoral Workers Strike of 1946 | Workers BushTelegraph
Johnny Depp’s wife Amber Heard is handed a one-month good behaviour bond with no conviction recorded after smuggling her two Yorkshire terriers into Australia last year while visiting her husband.
This Friday 15th of April marks 25 years since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. It has also been named a National Day Of Emergency because deaths in custody are in fact on the rise in Australia, and actions are planned all over the country
Celeste Liddle, Arrernte woman, unionist, writer, feminist and activist – not necessarily in that order – was the keynote speaker last night at the Queen Victoria Women’s Centre’s annual International Women’s Day address. This is an unedited version of her speech. I am, through my father’s side of the family, an Arrernte woman. For thoseMore
Source: Looking Past White Australia And White Feminism – New Matilda
The brave move to make Indigenous languages a new HSC subject in 2016 is a necessary step towards enshrining them for future generations
You may already know that Australia jails a disproportionate number of Aboriginal people, but these two charts, compiled from the latest figures from the Bureau of Statistics, starkly show how rapidly the problem has escalated in recent years.
Source: Two charts that show Australia’s human rights crisis
The Tiwi islands are remote and almost entirely Aboriginal and were once riddled with alcoholism, violence and suicide. But that has changed and a pathway for children has been found that offers a model for indigenous communities around Australia.
Source: A good news story from the islands with a bright future
Violence in Aboriginal communities is one issue that many do not wish to talk about. But if we don’t acknowledge the problem, we won’t be able to address it.
This week is the 8th International Basic Income Week. It made me contemplate yet again Basic Income as an alternative worthy of serious contemplation as the employment situation in remote Indigenous Australia teeters towards disaster.
Source: Basic Income A No-Brainer For Remote Indigenous Australia | newmatilda.com
olddogthoughts 