“When we talk about eliminating violence against Aboriginal women, we aren’t just talking about individual acts, or solely interpersonal violence” - Amy McQuire.
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We share Amy McQuire's powerful words in recognition of Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Month up in Queensland. pulse.ly/9p9oytzvp8
#endDFV, #endcoercivecontrol #DFVPM2023
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More than 600 artefacts have been unearthed at the future site of a new hospital in Moruya.
Brinja Yuin Gadu elder Maureen Davis remembers hunting on the site as a child.
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“We as a family have stood alongside those other families also affected by this great epidemic and injustice against Indigenous men, women, youth, and children of this country. We simply just don’t understand how to others he has just become a statistic”
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ARRERNTE / Perteme woman and educator Leela Kruger loves working at Gillen Primary School in Alice Springs.
And when the school principal nominated her in the Northern Territory Young Achiever of the year awards – she won.
MORE on this story: koorimail.com
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ICIN are hosting critical conversations about Indigenous rights to carbon with #Indigenous groups and #FirstNations people across Australia (online) 16-17 May.
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If you are able to help out, please do so and share this Go fund me link:
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This was such a joy to work with Uncle Garry on.
A generous, beautiful story.
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Sometimes the smallest things can hold the biggest meaning.
Read about the journey of a humble spoon as it travels between two households on the Yumba, carrying borrowed coal embers and becoming a treasured item for the Mitchell family.
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Sometimes the smallest things can hold the biggest meaning.
Read about the journey of a humble spoon as it travels between two households on the Yumba, carrying borrowed coal embers and becoming a treasured item for the Mitchell family.
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The rare thing is to not have to experience racism! Can’t turn on the TV or walk out the front door without being exposed to racism in this place.
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They talk about racism against Aboriginal footy players like it’s a rare thing, but it’s not rare that Aboriginal ppl experience racism so much as it is rare that Aboriginal people are famous enough to be deemed newsworthy when we experience racism.
It happens all day every day.
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“PM says racism has no place in sport or in our society.
… and in other news, a local chicken farmer says that chickens have no place on his farm and he’s not sure where they come from or how the keep turning up. He has also announced plans to build 30 new chicken coops.”
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In last week's emergency meeting, we asked 350+ people what Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Legal Services mean to them.
The answers speak for themselves.
Please sign the petition to defend access to culturally safe legal help: bit.ly/3VxZieA
#ATSILSemergency
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They talk about racism against Aboriginal footy players like it’s a rare thing, but it’s not rare that Aboriginal ppl experience racism so much as it is rare that Aboriginal people are famous enough to be deemed newsworthy when we experience racism.
It happens all day every day.
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Frontier War Stories Theme music by: Bundjalung Sound Engineer and Musician
#FrontierWars #FrontierWarStories
#LestWeForget #FirstNations #Aboriginal #Resistance
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Stan Grant strength of character, a shining beacon of light for our people. To speak up at such a time is to be commended.
#NotMyKing
When the Queen died, I felt betrayed by a nation. For King Charles' coronation, I feel something quite different
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The oddest thing about them reporting that there will be “snipers all along the roof of Buckingham Palace” is that they think anyone cares enough to organise some kind of assassination.
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Today on 6 May 2023 King Charles III will be crowned the largest clear cut diamond in the world at his coronation. It was stolen from South Africa. It is known as 'The Great Star of Africa' which was previously owned by Queen Elizabeth II.
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At every turn, we see First Nations’ resistance to destructive industries on Country. The pursuit of land rights is an ongoing battle but as Natalie Cromb explains, there is a difference between Native Title and Land Rights
indigenousx.com.au/its-time-to-un
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At every turn, we see First Nations’ resistance to destructive industries on Country. The pursuit of land rights is an ongoing battle but as Natalie Cromb explains, there is a difference between Native Title and Land Rights
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"As CEO my priority will be to continue the growth and support of the workforce, and create more professional development opportunities for CATSINaM members”
Full story: lnkd.in/gf3_av48
#midwifery #nursing #ceoappointment #aboriginalhealth #torresstratislanderhealth
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"The pursuit of land rights is not materialism, it is responsibility in practice–our stories, our connection and cultural responsibility requires us to protect Country. We want the right to do this."
Great article by for 👇
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I just wanna know why so called "superior" civilizations are so scared of being invaded if it's in the best interest of evolution
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How you gonna claim to be representative of a superior civilisation when you don’t even understand how and why civilisations develop in the first place?
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#OTD in 1990, the Hawke Government established the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC), which was dissolved by the Howard Government in 2005.
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At every turn, we see First Nations’ resistance to destructive industries on Country. The pursuit of land rights is an ongoing battle but as Natalie Cromb explains, there is a difference between Native Title and Land Rights indigenousx.com.au/its-time-to-un By #auspol
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Back in 2017, Prof Foley wrote an insightful piece for IX on why the 1967 Referendum didn’t work.
Have a read and share your thoughts👇🏾
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Activist Professor Gary Foley warns the Voice will face the same fate as its predecessors and that there would be no change in this country until Australians “face up to the truth of their own history”.
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Whether it’s the voice or any other issue, stop searching for the holy grail of Indigenous thought and recognise that we have a right to diverse views and failing to reflect the one that you like best does not diminish anyone’s identity or invalidate their perspective by default.
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Instead they should be thinking “Every large group, especially one that is actually several hundred different groups lumped in together, is naturally going to have a diverse range of views on complex issues so I should just respect that while making up my own mind on this issue.”
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This means that when they encounter a diversity of opinion on any given topic they think “which one is the ‘real’ ‘authentic’ Indigenous perspective and which one is fake?” and then weaponise the one they like to demean the views, and identities, of all other Indigenous people.
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The desire for a homogeneous Indigenous worldview is inherently racist and it ignores our cultural and individual diversity, but it creates other problems too. A big one is that it leads non-Indigenous people to believe there is only one ‘true’ Indigenous perspective.
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"the pursuit of land rights is not materialism, it is responsibility in practice - our stories, our connection and cultural responsibility requires us to protect Country. we want the right to do this" -
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The pursuit of land rights is an ongoing battle for mob. And, at every turn, we see destructive industries on Country. In her IX story, explains the difference between Native Title and Land Rights.
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We’ve been covering this story since 2021. Dawn raids from tactical police displacing local mob who have been protesting this development through an on-site presence for over 3 years. Just heartbreaking 💔 triplea.org.au/listen/program
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A Ngaarda Media journalist photographed the removal of rock art in Murujuga, on the Burrup peninsula to make way for a $6bn urea plant. She was stopped by police, and the photos seized during a home raid! You can’t make this up. #anotherdayinthecolony
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