The unAustralians
What they mean is values minus — minus you, minus him.
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July 17, 2026
Art / Australian Aborigines / Culture / First Nations/Indigenous / Human Rights / Mining / Uncategorized
The Enduring Legacy Of Murujuga: The International Significance Of The Mardathoonera Rock Art
Enforceable protections for the ancient rock art at Murujuga from the North West Shelf gas industry are critical to ensuring that it survives another fifty-thousand years.
July 12, 2026
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.
July 10, 2026
Fifty Years Still Owed: When the Anniversary Songs Stop
Fifty years of achievement must be viewed through the lens of what those who came before us were working toward and what still remains to be achieved.
July 8, 2026
Fifty Years of Deadly: What half a century of NAIDOC has actually built
A review of the achievements of Indigenous people over the past 50 years in Australia.
July 7, 2026
Barnaby Joyce, One Nation and the Politics of Defection
The defection of Barnaby Joyce should be viewed not so much as a matter of principle as one of strategic ambition.
July 2, 2026
The Weight of the Hill: Indigenous Australian Experience Since Colonisation
The professor names the oppressors with taxonomic precision – and is correct about all of them. He cannot, however, imagine that Aboriginal people laugh.
June 29, 2026
The Law That Looks Away: Accountability, Honest Data, and the Long Work of Justice in Australian Policing
The law must be held to account. The institutions that carry it must be held to account. The politicians who shape those institutions must be held to account.
June 23, 2026
Australian Aborigines / Commonwealth Government / First Nations/Indigenous / Government / Refugees / Uncategorized
Hollow Sovereignty: One Nation, Hanson and Borrowed Grievance
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck ...
June 14, 2026
Fiction Become Prophecy: A Contemporary Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Higher expectations and broader negative assumptions of an Indigenous man underpin the pervasive structural racism that destroys First Nations lives.
May 28, 2026
ACT Government / Australian Aborigines / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Discrimination/Racism / Former Commissioner / Racism / Uncategorized
Sorry Means Accountability: A Sorry Day Essay
Every year on the 26th of May, Australia observes National Sorry Day. Flags are lowered. Speeches are made. Politicians stand at podiums and invoke the language of healing, reconciliation, and…
May 27, 2026
The Country Remembers
Before the word sorry was even possible, the country already knew what had been taken ...
May 26, 2026
ACT Government / Australian Aborigines / Australian Federal Police / Discrimination/Racism / Former Commissioner / Justice / Racism
Still Standing: A Note to Readers of Blak and Black
Some of you have been reading this blog since its earliest days. You know the history. You know what was attempted. This is a brief note to tell you that…
May 20, 2026
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Australian Aborigines / Australian Federal Police / Discrimination/Racism / First Nations/Indigenous / Human Rights / Racism / Refugees / Shared humanity
We Were All Made In The Image: On othering, humanism and the Enlightenment legacy
Far from being a footnote in history, the Enlightenment remains a challenge to the racism and exclusion plaguing Australia and the world.
May 16, 2026
Superfluous People: Anticipation Without Consummation – A History
Regardless of recommendations, time and again, the rights of Indigenous people in Australia are subordinated to those of others, The Gap never closing.
May 14, 2026
Australian Values: Gout Gout, Simpson and the Nation’s Soul
Australia is not and has never been a defined racial group. There is no racial purity and those who argue such are not its defenders.
April 16, 2026
Law, Image And Ceremony: Aboriginal Art and Systems of Knowledge
Yolngu painting is more than art. It is a living expression of ancestors, land and community, one with the Dreaming.
April 7, 2026