Tasers and the marganilised
Mr. Anand Grover, UN Special Raporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health findings on Australia’s treatment of its…
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October 15, 2010
To Taser or not to Taser … is it even a question?
All those who have been following the Australian news in the last few weeks will no doubt be aware that there has been an absolute spate of police taserings right…
October 15, 2010
Courage Western Australian style
Police using Tasers for wrong reasons (thewest.com.au 4 October, 2010); the headline screams out from the screen as I stumble onto yet another instance of police brutality against Aboriginal Australians…
October 4, 2010
The times they are a-changin’ … or are they?
I’m going to start this post by quoting from an inspiring speech delivered by an Aboriginal woman, Christine Fejo-King, at the launch of the book “This is What We said”…
October 4, 2010
Pots, kettles and Australian hypocrisy!
Why is Australia a land of knockers and haters?
September 28, 2010
Art and the sacred in Aboriginal Society
While traditional and authentic Aboriginal culture in South-Eastern Australia went into terminal decline with the arrival of European settlers in 1788, the Aboriginal tribes of Arnhem Land in the north-eastern…
September 20, 2010
The here and now of racism in Australia
Addressing the racism requires that we educate "white" Australia so as to dismantle the sources or prejudice.
September 12, 2010
A Day In The Life Of An Aborigine
PROLOGUE Before we can truly understand another person, we must walk a mile in their moccasins. Before we can walk in another person’s moccasins, we must first take off our…
September 10, 2010