The professor names the oppressors with taxonomic precision – and is correct about all of them. He cannot, however, imagine that Aboriginal people laugh.
I. Two Arguments That Must Not Be Confused The case against monoculturalism in Australia rests on two distinct foundations that are often conflated, and the conflation weakens both. The first…
Coordinated effort across education, institutions, legislation and community is required to counter the skewed narratives of white nationalism
Higher expectations and broader negative assumptions of an Indigenous man underpin the pervasive structural racism that destroys First Nations lives.
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…
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…
Regardless of recommendations, time and again, the rights of Indigenous people in Australia are subordinated to those of others, The Gap never closing.
Ambition combined with greed and envy makes for a dangerous combination.
We are the princess. Reject Hanson’s othering. Love our unfinished multicultural nation enough to transform. Wish it so.
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.
Generating the momentum to realise the Dream envisioned in 1963 by Luther King requires the moral will to demand what is owed.
Inequities in the management of first-time drug offences by NSW Police highlight the ongoing problems in Closing the Gap.
Enforcing a disputed political definition in the public service sets an implicit bias that will affect public policy and relations both local and international.
The persistent lack of accountability for the vilification of Muslims threatens to undermine the foundations of equality that form the fabric of our society.
Australia must learn from the deterioration of democratic freedoms of the United States and defend the freedoms of individuals and independence of the courts.
The exclusionary politics that devastated the Haitian people are being played out almost a century later in the United States.
The Muslim community is culturally and politically diverse, historically engaged in reasoned debate, whilst contemporaneously progressive and inclusive.
I have been voting in Australian elections for decades. Over that time I have supported a range of parties and individuals – Liberal when I thought they had the right…
Representations of Islam as a perpetual aggressor against Western traditions are a facile expression of correlation equalling causation.