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Governments must let go of their power over the lives of Australia’s First Nations children

Without structural change, child protection systems will continue to fail Indigenous families.

I supported other women to have babies but faced my own battle alone

As an Aboriginal woman, I felt the expectation to have children. All the while, I was in a battle which many face alone

We must raise the age of criminal responsibility, here is why

As an Indigenous psychologist who has dedicated decades to prevention efforts the core of my argument is that locking children up is ineffective as a crime prevention measure.

Meriki Onus

“I want to be known as a Gundijtmara activist”

Meriki Onus sits down with her Nan, Alma Thorpe, to discuss her amazing life as a communist, an Aboriginal Health Worker and above all, a Gundijtmara activist.

Tameeka Tighe

There’s a link between the over-policing of Indigenous kids and our people dying in custody

Our children’s innocence is stolen, and the system presents them with a life in and out of prison

Alison Whittaker

Daily Reporting: Wayne Fella Morrison Inquest

The inquest into the death in custody of Wayne Fella Morrison continues and a team of researchers and advocates report the daily account of the inquest here.

Donny Imberlong

After Education

Being the first in the family to go to university has meant that I have been away from my family for a long time. I’ve missed birthdays, funerals, family gatherings and other life events in between.

Nat Cromb

We still fight for justice within a system determined to deny it

In our communities, we all know someone that has been impacted by the criminal justice system in a harmful (often devastating) way.

Lindsay McCabe

No Justice, Just Us

This is not a numbers game. These are people, Aboriginal people, whose lives have been snuffed out in the ongoing machinery of colonisation and the carceral State.

Tony Birch

The nation does not care about people who become incarcerated

Tony Birch says that to state that a loss of Aboriginal life results in yet another ‘death in custody’ is to use language that refuses the reality of murder in custody that we know will be failed by the system.

Roxanne Moore

Hear the families’ calls for justice, 30 years and 474 black deaths in custody since the Royal Commission

If we collectively support the families’ calls and call on governments to act, we can end this injustice once and for all. We cannot, and must not, wait another generation for change.

Meena Singh

Aboriginal people need our lives to be valued, and our history and culture to be known and accepted

Human Rights Law Centre Director and Yorta Yorta woman, Meena Singh speaks of how little has changed and the current outcomes being a result of targeted policies.

Bizzi Lavelle

Being ‘edgy’ at our expense is not art

There is a stark difference between hurting for and channeling your pain into your art, and demanding that Indigenous peoples bleed for your art so that you can tell everyone how bad colonisation and the crimes of the British Empire are.

Shiralee Lawson

Blak women are doing the work, are you listening?

We must love, support and protect each other at all costs. Not only through encouragement and uplifting words but by holding one another to account to uphold and protect the legacies that our old ones created.

Nathan Towney

Education system must move away from its colonial world view

Pro vice-chancellor of Indigenous strategy and leadership at the University of Newcastle, Nathan Towney, says the values system that underpins knowledge will determine how individuals and communities view the power generated and then influence how they use this power.

Nat Cromb

Why heritage does not ascribe cultural authenticity or authority

Senator McMahon has spoken at a Senate media inquiry where she criticised a media outlet for using the decades old slogan, Always was, always will be, citing herself as an authority and saying that it is offensive to non-Indigenous Australians. Identity politics a convenient tool of conservatives who often centre their own victimhood when racism is pointed out.

Shiralee Lawson

We need to create diverse spaces that include Blak women. The time for invisibility is over

As Aboriginal women we have to fight tooth and nail to be listened to, even in spaces where we are beyond capable.

Chelsea Watego

From Blackness – the genius and generosity of Steven Oliver

Dr Chelsea Watego celebrates the genius of Steven Oliver and the themes he addresses in 'Bigger and Blacker.'

Governments must let go of their power over the lives of Australia’s First Nations children

I supported other women to have babies but faced my own battle alone

We must raise the age of criminal responsibility, here is why

“I want to be known as a Gundijtmara activist”

There’s a link between the over-policing of Indigenous kids and our people dying in custody

Daily Reporting: Wayne Fella Morrison Inquest

After Education

We still fight for justice within a system determined to deny it

No Justice, Just Us

The nation does not care about people who become incarcerated

Hear the families’ calls for justice, 30 years and 474 black deaths in custody since the Royal Commission

Aboriginal people need our lives to be valued, and our history and culture to be known and accepted

Being ‘edgy’ at our expense is not art

Blak women are doing the work, are you listening?

Education system must move away from its colonial world view

Why heritage does not ascribe cultural authenticity or authority

We need to create diverse spaces that include Blak women. The time for invisibility is over

From Blackness – the genius and generosity of Steven Oliver

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