Shades of hypocrisy
Some observations on the realities of being and Aborigine in 21stcentury Australia by an observer who isn’t. One of my piano teachers was the sole child of Polish Holocaust survivors.…
0 Comments
January 22, 2011
Australian Aborigines / Discrimination/Racism / First Nations/Indigenous / Genocide / Shared humanity / White Australia
‘The Aboriginal Mother’ a poem by Eliza Hamilton Dunlop
An elegy for a lost child.
December 16, 2010
William Westbrooke Burton
Introduction In an interview with Sydney radio personality John laws in October 1996, then Prime Minister John Howard observed that “… the emphasis should not be on past wrongs but…
November 13, 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
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