Category: IndegenousX

There is something unique about Blak friendships. It is the ultimate form of received solidarity. I feel comfortable talking with my Blak friends about mostly every topic that goes on in my head as most likely we have had similar experiences – whether with upbringing, family and work. I won’t

Since the referendum in 1967 when balanda (non-Indigenous) voted for my people to become citizens of a country we already belong to, you have stripped our leaders of their dignity and authority, and you have made us subject to devastating laws and policies that you have forced upon us.  For

On Friday 11th August, I received two dreaded calls from my cousins. They told me our 800-year-old birthing tree on Djab Wurrung Country had been violently attacked.  The heartbreak in their voices over the phone sent chills through my body. Tears rolled out of my Djab Wurrung body all over

The christian-fascist block of the ‘conservative movement’ was in full swing at the recent CPAC conference.  Behind the thin black veil of Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Nyunggai Warren Mundine, rabid racists like former Labor Minister Gary Johns wound back the clock as a cesspit of confronting genocidal filth was

This piece was originally published in Kings Narrative.  It has been announced Australia will go to a Referendum on October 14, to vote Yes or No on whether Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should have a Voice to Parliament.  Please bear with me as I try to articulate the

I started the year in the fairly lonely ‘I don’t know’ camp, but I think I’m ending it in the “I don’t care anymore’ camp.  I care much less for what happens on the day the votes will be counted than I do for the days and months and years