Charles Perkins and the Unfinished Freedom Ride: A NAIDOC Week Reflection
Perkins broke through racial barriers not to be a first, but to move the dial of disadvantage suffered by Indigenous people so that they are counted as equal.
Perkins broke through racial barriers not to be a first, but to move the dial of disadvantage suffered by Indigenous people so that they are counted as equal.
You disagree? You must be red.A commie, comrade – latte-fed,except it’s flat white, thanks a lot;don’t let a coffee spoil the plot."Marxist!" spat like it’s a curse,from a man who’s…
Truth misunderstood, dangerous in its honour, stares back at us disappointed and betrayed ...
Sometimes, the profoundness of a friendship is not fully realised until that friend is lost. We all know this. Today for Blak and Blak, for me personally, it is the…
Immigrants, most of whom came to Australia legally, are not the cause of the problems we face; that fault lies with the policies of successive governments.
Commonalities in Creation myths across Indigenous cultures point toward a shared origin and universal imagination.
One nation? Yes – but wide as all its peoples, deep as the Dreaming, old as the first rain.
Australia must formalise a response to the detention and mistreatment of its citizens by Israeli authorities participating the Global Freedom Flotilla.
Far from being a footnote in history, the Enlightenment remains a challenge to the racism and exclusion plaguing Australia and the world.
The desire for freedom is common to all people, a matter that will drive resistance against an oppressor.
Chess and coffee in eternity. The Universal Consciousness discusses the futures of humanity with Dr Adnan Al-Bursh.
Realisation of the full breadth of the what this land is and what it offers requires that we accept both the bright of the Dream and that which lies in the shadows.
By having the courge to share adventures with others, we open ourselves to a better understanding that differences between us are not so big afterall.
We are the princess. Reject Hanson’s othering. Love our unfinished multicultural nation enough to transform. Wish it so.
Woodley and Newton's "we Are One" embodies the elements of Australia in a profound and unique way.
Millennia has brought us to this point in time and has shown us that what we are to become is very much up to ourselves.
It is the unexpected events that criss-cross our days that draw a multicultural society together, more than ethnicity or faith.