THE CLEANSING OF GARIWERD
The Point went to Gariwerd to look at the rise of white supremacist and extremist groups operating in Australia. On the January 26 long weekend this year, the area - the Grampians in regional Victoria was invaded by masked white supremacists.
Gunaikurnai man Troy McDonald told the program: “In this vicinity, 30 of those white supremacists came and started their hateful chants. It was a really tough thing for a lot of us to see that, when it was reported.
Because if you are coming here, this is not a hateful environment. People don t come here generally on a holiday or a walk to express a hate agenda and that’s what they’ve done.
The Koori Mail is much-loved by many.
The national Aboriginal newspaper has for 30 years now called the town of Lismore, on Bundjalung Country, home.
For the past three decades the paper has told stories in our communities in a way that, until its creation, had been missing in the mainstream media for so long.
Every fortnight, its pages are splashed with photographs of our icons, our Elders, our sporting heroes, and our mob who are achieving their own personal goals.
The Koori Mail general manager Naomi Moran said the Koori Mail is just one part of the Black media landscape, which champions the voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
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Rage is a good place to start
After being cancelled last year due to the pandemic, 2021âs Sydney writersâ festival began with fury: an opening address shared by Melissa Lucashenko, Tara June Winch and Evelyn Araluen, and taken by all three as an opportunity to advocate for justice. As Araluen put it: âAboriginal women know what it is to be silenced, ignored or wilfully misinterpreted by those who do not wish to hear what needs to be said.â
Lucashenko told a parable which had at its core the damage wrought by gentrification, as it âhits country NSW like a freight trainâ. Winch, stuck in France with a tab open on the Stranded Aussies forum, gave a forceful speech about how Australia looks from afar â violent, racist and in denial â and how uncomfortable it feels for her to be grouped into the âidentity crisisâ that is âAussieâ in the first place.
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