COVID urgency and calls for release
Several United Nations bodies including the World Health Organisation, the Office of Drug Control and the High Commissioner for Human Rights have given clear advice that there is no time to lose. Prisoner health is a public health matter and prisoners must not be forgotten.
CTG is not our ‘problem’ but we have solutions.
The end result was that Closing the Gap has been a huge failure. But if there was one silver lining, it was the Prime Minister’s admission that “over decades, our top-down, government-knows-best approach, has not delivered the improvements we all yearn for”.
We live in dangerous times, not unprecedented times.
The most vulnerable in society – the elderly, unwell and Indigenous – will be hit hardest. For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples the impact of Covid-19 will be compounded by years of neglect and a failure to address the social determinants of health.
Aboriginal people didn’t invent the wheel, but so what?
We’ve decided to start making some short videos since we’ve all got a bit more time on our hands... our first one is from IndigenousX founder and CEO Luke Pearson talking about ‘Why didn’t Aboriginal people invent the wheel?’ - not just the reasons why we didn’t but, more importantly, the reason racists love to bring this up. Hope you enjoy!
COVID-19 and Custody – Calls for Release
There has not been anything in the bill nor the explanatory memoranda to address bail in the current uncertain circumstances and there are calls within the legal fraternity that the current legislative changes contemplated do not go far enough.
As it stands, there is a significant population in custody that have not been found guilty of a crime and they should be released.
A Gaslit Australia
One of the key steps we can take to healing from this sickness, is understanding that gaslighting is a tool of the oppressor that is – and has been for 250 years – weaponised against us in order to keep our people in a perpetual state of disarray, disenfranchisement and disengagement.
Review: Surviving New England
Surviving New England is impossible to put down. Its accounts shatter the colonial storying of the frontier. Mob in New England were not only resilient, as the current progressive narrative would have us believe, to colonisation — they resisted, fiercely, doing much more than surviving.
My Inheritance: Personal Reflections of Sue-Anne Hunter.
As I reflect upon my pregnancy and the early months with my daughter, I realise that my thoughts and feelings around her being removed were very real for me. As real as it was for my Dad and Nan and the generations before them. It was never intentional on their part as intergenerational trauma never is.
