when I meet with the Voice for the first time, I will say: “bring me your ideas on how to stop our people from taking their own lives, bring me your ideas on how to help our kids go to school and thrive, bring me your ideas on how we make sure our mob live strong and healthy lives, how we ensure more people have jobs, how we support families better.” and I will LISTEN
Australian politicians blame Aboriginal people for social problems. Alexis Wright’s Grog War shows that when First Nations communities fight to improve society, they are attacked at every turn.
AFL great Eddie Betts has thrown his support behind an Indigenous Voice to parliament, describing the proposal as a pathway to inclusion and respect in decision-making.
When Class systematically dissects even those that deserve attention the most it’s used to political advantage to put the brakes on recognition of injustice and halt progressive and just change
“It is important we bring respect to this. This should be a conversation we should be able to have,” he added.
Labor minister Bill Shorten told Nine Ms Burney had been a great advocate for First Nations Australians.
“The issue is about whether or not we put First Nations people on the nation’s birth certificate, the Constitution,” he said.
Former prime minister Kevin Rudd has launched a scathing rebuke of the emerging conservative campaign against a referendum on an Indigenous Voice to parliament, attacking his longtime rival Tony Abbott for suggesting the body would change Australia’s system of government.
Whenever the former prime minister paid his respects to Indigenous leaders past, present and emerging, he would include a shout-out to any servicemen and women in the audience. At best, it had been a clumsy attempt by Morrison to drape himself in the Australian flag; at worst, a passive-aggressive reminder that the white man was in charge.
“How can a child neglect itself?” says Aunty Vickie Roach as she flicks through a stack of papers on the front step of her home near Wollongong, New South Wales. “And in what alternative universe can that child be criminalized? It’s crazy”, she says, shaking her head.
Technically we are animals, but that doesn’t mean it’s okay to call people animals,
When Empathy is defined, meaningful but questionably is it Non-Indigenous Australian. Andrew Bolt claims to be Indigenous.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have different ways in which they like to be referred to, but all can agree on a few basics when it comes to language, ‘Aborigine’ is offensive and Indigenous, when referring to First Australians, is a proper noun.
It was a bitter-sweet journey back to the past for artist Reko Rennie when he drove an old gold Rolls-Royce up the Hume Highway and thrashed it in the outback dust.
“I hope to lead by example to show other Indigenous doctors and students that they too can overcome adversity and obstacles to achieve their goals as medical professionals.”
Sharing Indigenous culture without being worthy or gloomy is easy. Our resilience, our harmony with country and the joy of the corroboree can heal wounds
Technically we are animals, but that doesn’t mean it’s okay to call people animals,
When Empathy is defined, meaningful but questionably is it Non-Indigenous Australian. Andrew Bolt claims to be Indigenous.
Why one young man is leaving this incredible country on a quest 3,800km away.
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