Tag: Aboriginal affairs
‘No’ to Australia’s indigenous Voice – a devastating wake-up call for...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Yamin Kogoya
The referendum on the indigenous Voice in Australia last Saturday was an historic event. Australians were asked to vote on...
Don’t say the Aboriginal flag was ‘freed’ – it belongs to...
ANALYSIS: By Bronwyn Carlson, Macquarie University
We woke to the news yesterday that the Australian government has negotiated with the designer of the Aboriginal flag...
Koori Mail’s ‘Uncle Russell’ was a dedicated Indigenous voice
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The Koori Mail, after awaiting permission from the Kapeen family, has announced with great sadness the sudden passing of Koori Mail...
Uncle Shane on Australia’s shame: ‘We’re the vulnerable ones, the...
SPECIAL REPORT: It was early November 2016. As I waited for Laura Lyons from Grandmothers Against Removals (GMAR), a tall, thin, old-looking man with...
A Wiradjuri grandmother’s sad story: ‘The Stolen Generations have never stopped’
SPECIAL REPORT: Laura Lyons is a 48-year-old Wiradjuri woman living in Sydney. She alleges that three of her children as well as four of...
Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Dr Camille Nakhid
A group of Indigenous Australian grandmothers have organised themselves to stop the Australian government from taking away Indigenous children...
John Pilger: Australia’s day for secrets, flags and cowards
Report from Pacific Media Centre
This truth has no place in the Australian consciousness. Among settler nations with indigenous populations, apart from a facile “apology”...