NT Defamation Case in Supreme Court
We have always had to fight for our right to assert our personhood and the fight continues with Alice Springs Newspaper ‘The Centralian Advocate – NT News’ currently the subject of defamation litigation following the publishing of an Indigenous child’s photograph above the headline “Youth Crisis: town split over kids.”
We don’t want you as our envoy: Abbott’s first trip to NT as Special Envoy
Gadrian Hoosan, a parent and school council member told Abbott he ‘was not welcome in the community since intervention policies ripped out community funding leaving residents worse off, while denying much needed new housing and basic services.’
Remembering The Black Mist
Recently I viewed the Black Mist Burnt Country exhibition at the National Museum of Australia. Launched on 27 September 2016, to mark the 60th anniversary of nuclear bomb testing at Maralinga in South Australia, the exhibition has already covered a lot of ground touring the eastern states.
Resisting assimilation
My father’s life, with all of its suffering, hardship and pain may have been orchestrated by the government with the intention to wipe him, his people and culture out. But for our family, the government didn’t win. While my father and his children live on, our culture will never die, be silenced or erased.
