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Book Review: Am I Black enough for you? #AWWC2012

By Mindy on 2012-07-29 • ( 10 )

#AWWC2012 Book Review: Am I Black enough for you?

Marking twenty years since the Mabo decision

By Chally on 2012-06-03 • ( 7 )

Today, it is twenty years since since native title was first recognised in Australia and the doctrine of terra nullius was rejected by the High Court.

A poster appearing around Brisbane

By hatbluemilk on 2012-05-23 • ( 3 )

Text from the spoof newspaper article poster that has started anonymously appearing around Brisbane, Queensland: DEMOLITION WILL HONOUR SIR JOH BEJELKE-PETERSEN An unnamed source within the Brisbane electorate today accused Queensland Premier Campbell Newman’s LNP government of secretly planning… Read More ›

Hating Australia Day from afar

By Queen Emily on 2012-01-26 • ( 17 )

Today is the second Australia Day since I moved to the United States. One of the most surprising things for me to experience out of Australia was people saying–even in the American South!–Australia’s really racist, isn’t it? And personally, I hate that. I hate that there is such a strong implicit idea of who an Australian “is,” and how racist and dependent on assimilation that is. I hate the way that is enforced with violence and ugly rhetoric, and I hate the policies that our country mobilises against Aboriginal communities and refugees.

And yet. For all that I hate what Australia Day represents, I am more homesick than usual today.

2012 Australian Women Writers Challenge Review: Carpentaria by Alexis Wright

By Jo Tamar on 2012-01-14 • ( 1 )

Jo Tamar’s first review for the 2012 Australian Women Writer’s Challenge – Carpentaria by Alexis Wright.

Sunday Singalong: Violeta Parra

By hatbluemilk on 2012-01-08

OK, this one is Violeta Parra, an incredibly haunting Chilean folk singer who saw folk music as a “weapon against oppression”. Yeah which revolutionary didn’t? She and her children became the song-writers of the left-wing political movement of her country…. Read More ›

Do you see Indigenous men as role models?

By hatbluemilk on 2011-11-08 • ( 4 )

Aboriginal and Islander men, so readily demonised in Australia, held a march last Saturday in Melbourne in the name of reclaiming, respecting and protecting themselves and their communities.