Counter-storytelling allows us to challenge dominant narratives, expose injustices, and advocate for meaningful change. Legal scholar Richard Delgardo describes it as a way to share stories that amplify marginalised perspectives, disrupting myths and questioning the narratives that reinforce systemic inequities. But why is this so important? Why must ...
Disclaimer: Readers please be advised this article mentions institutional racism against Aboriginal people and the incarceration of children. I can’t stop thinking about a paradox that speaks volumes about how we treat children in this country. In the Northern Territory, children as young as 10 years old—many of them Aboriginal—can
I sit in a room full of learned people, feeling like I am too young, too inexperienced to have anything to offer. After all, who am I? What have I ever done that allows me to measure those who’ve paved the way before me? I hear stories of resistance, fighting
In January this year, the Productivity Commission released their report, highlighting that the number of deaths in custody of Aboriginal Peoples across Australia had doubled since 2007. In New South Wales, a ‘death in custody’ is any death that occurs during a police operation, in the custody of police, or
Counter-storytelling allows us to challenge dominant narratives, expose injustices, and advocate for meaningful change. Legal scholar Richard Delgardo describes it as a way to share stories that amplify marginalised perspectives, disrupting myths and questioning the narratives that reinforce systemic inequities. But why is this so important? Why must ...
Disclaimer: Readers please be advised this article mentions institutional racism against Aboriginal people and the incarceration of children. I can’t stop thinking about a paradox that speaks volumes about how we treat children in this country. In the Northern Territory, children as young as 10 years old—many of them Aboriginal—can
I sit in a room full of learned people, feeling like I am too young, too inexperienced to have anything to offer. After all, who am I? What have I ever done that allows me to measure those who’ve paved the way before me? I hear stories of resistance, fighting
In January this year, the Productivity Commission released their report, highlighting that the number of deaths in custody of Aboriginal Peoples across Australia had doubled since 2007. In New South Wales, a ‘death in custody’ is any death that occurs during a police operation, in the custody of police, or
