Growing up in Darwin during the Liberal Howard government meant as a young Larrakia child I witnessed and felt the real life impact of vilification and propaganda by police, media and politicians. In 2007, the government sent military tanks into remote Aboriginal communities as the Northern Territory Intervention escalated colonial
Readers please be advised this article mentions people who have passed away. Photos in this article, and this story was shared with permission from Fabian Nasir. At 82 years old, Hassan Fabian Bin Nasir from the Minyirr Djukun Clan stands as a living testament to resilience, cultural pride, and
It sometimes feels that for every small step forward we take with policy and law reform in this country it’s two steps back. When just last August, the Northern Territory became the first Australian jurisdiction to legally raise the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 12 it was applauded as
Before white supremacy came to Australia, bringing with it invasion, colonisation, subjugation and any number of introduced diseases, Indigenous peoples had been living here for 60,000 years. We were not passively waiting for white people to come but instead were living our lives on our own terms. ‘Other cultures are
Disclaimer: The views expressed are those of the author. This article mentions Indigenous children being taken from their families. Why has it become so hard to imagine bright and flourishing Indigenous futures? Imagining utopian futures for Indigenous peoples is more challenging than it first appears. A utopian Indigenous future is
Growing up in Darwin during the Liberal Howard government meant as a young Larrakia child I witnessed and felt the real life impact of vilification and propaganda by police, media and politicians. In 2007, the government sent military tanks into remote Aboriginal communities as the Northern Territory Intervention escalated colonial
Readers please be advised this article mentions people who have passed away. Photos in this article, and this story was shared with permission from Fabian Nasir. At 82 years old, Hassan Fabian Bin Nasir from the Minyirr Djukun Clan stands as a living testament to resilience, cultural pride, and
It sometimes feels that for every small step forward we take with policy and law reform in this country it’s two steps back. When just last August, the Northern Territory became the first Australian jurisdiction to legally raise the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 12 it was applauded as
Before white supremacy came to Australia, bringing with it invasion, colonisation, subjugation and any number of introduced diseases, Indigenous peoples had been living here for 60,000 years. We were not passively waiting for white people to come but instead were living our lives on our own terms. ‘Other cultures are
Disclaimer: The views expressed are those of the author. This article mentions Indigenous children being taken from their families. Why has it become so hard to imagine bright and flourishing Indigenous futures? Imagining utopian futures for Indigenous peoples is more challenging than it first appears. A utopian Indigenous future is
