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Donate If you are able to, please consider donating to one of these three funds, which are dedicated to covering legal fees for the families of three Indigenous Australians killed in police custody. David Dungay https://gf.me/u/x4tjih Kumanjayi Walker https://gf.me/u/x35vxj Tanya Day ​https://gf.me/u/x5vfgn Read We have a responsibility to educate ourselves about the systematic racism which continues to thrive in Australia. The Cockburn Library offers an excellent list of boo

We recognise the deep moral and political significance of the Uluru Statement from the Heart in our own hearts. Jews have also experienced the deep silence that follows atrocity and genocide, the experience of being abandoned by humanity, the struggle for recognition of confronting truths, and the tormenting powerlessness of not being heard. In this year of 2020, which marks the 250th anniversary of the arrival of the British in Australia and dispossession of its original inh

Summer has well and truly hit Australia. School is out, the beaches are packed, barbecues are at the ready - one might argue this is the best time of year for Aussies. However, with the arrival of January comes a certain level of discomfort. An unease with an annual injustice supported by many Australians and, of course, the Government. It takes place each year on January 26th - our national holiday, Australia Day. This particular date marks the day on which in 1788, Arthur P

Julian Leeser’s flippant dismissal of First Australians’ concerns regarding the name and date of our national day is as instructive as it is offensive and nonsensical. It is completely in keeping with the mean-spirited rejection by the Liberal federal government of the ‘Uluru Statement from the Heart’ which emerged from the 2017 National Constitutional Convention. This year marks the 80th anniversary of the protest by William Cooper and the Australian Aboriginal League at the