Hope can be in short supply in Australia’s Indigenous communities sometimes. Trust too.
But Aboriginal communities across Victoria are finding hope and putting their trust in themselves to get the treaty process right.
Despite hundreds of years of broken promises, exploitation and the threat of annihilation, Aboriginal Victorians are getting behind the First Peoples’ Assembly election under way around the state. It’s another step in a journey that should see treaties signed between the Victorian government and Aboriginal clans and groups within years.
It’s not been a quick process though. Even if you exclude the more than 200 years before it, the advancing the treaty process with Aboriginal Victorians bill was passed in June 2018, but the work has been ongoing since 2016.… Seguir leyendo »
Nothing prepares you for your first sight of Uluru. Amid the vastness of Australia’s arid red center, there is something wondrous about this monumental slab of sandstone rising dramatically out of a flattened landscape. It is not difficult to see why Indigenous Australians saw it as a sacred place.
Uluru is not just a place of wonder and reverence. It has become, too, a political and historical battleground, a place through which Australia has tried to grapple with its relationship with Indigenous Australians.
It was the Anangu, the original inhabitants of the region, who gave Uluru its name. For more than a century, though, it was known to Australians of European descent as Ayers Rock, named after a 19th-century Anglo-Australian colonial administrator.… Seguir leyendo »
I’ve been using the dating website OkCupid too much lately, and recently decided to reply to persistent messages from a MrNxtLvl – someone I would usually ignore based on his username alone. MrNxtLvl asked me what I was up to on Australia Day. I replied with “Nothing. I don’t celebrate Australia Day’”. He answered with complete bewilderment: “WTF?! You do nuthin? Not even listen to Triple J's Hottest 100 ?” to which I could only reply, “not even Triple J”.
I'm an Aboriginal woman in her 20s who cruises dating websites, but it’s only four generations back that my family felt the direct consequences of foreigners invading our land.… Seguir leyendo »
Its banks secured in the warmth of the southern spring, Australia is not news. It ought to be. An epic scandal of racism, injustice and brutality is being covered up in the manner of apartheid South Africa. Many Australians conspire in this silence, wishing never to reflect upon the truth about their society's Untermenschen, the Aboriginal people.
The facts are not in dispute: thousands of black Australians never reach the age of 40; an entirely preventable disease, trachoma, blinds black children as epidemics of rheumatic fever ravage their communities; suicide among the despairing young is common. No other developed country has such a record.… Seguir leyendo »
Six months ago Michael Jeffery, the then governor general of Australia, stuck for something to say about his female replacement, declared: "Anybody can be the governor general in [Australia] and that's what makes it such a great place" - as if the other 14 Commonwealth realms that pick a stand-in for the Queen were somehow less democratic than Australia.
When it comes to choosing a head of state Australia is the least adventurous of the dominions. The 25 incumbents include one prince, two earls, two viscounts, seven barons and nine knights, plus an archbishop, a politician and a major-general. Hitherto, all have been men; none has been from an ethnic minority.… Seguir leyendo »
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