The 1972 Aboriginal and Māori tent embassies in Canberra and Wellington “were created by frank and fearless young people sick of the status quo. They declared that the Indigenous tribes of these lands would no longer be aliens in their own country.” — Tainui Stephens.
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“The flawed campaign and the overwhelming result made it clear that a lot of Aussies are, to varying degrees, racist, ill-informed, or simply ignorant.” — Tainui Stephens on Australia’s Voice referendum.
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“Next weekend’s referendum is a chance for all of us manuhiri in Australia — Māori and Pākehā — to show our respects to our hosts by voting yes.” — Rachel Buchanan on the Voice referendum.
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“For too long, Australia has been too comfortable with perpetrating and witnessing the despair of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.” — Tyson Carmody on why he’s voting Yes in the Voice to Parliament referendum.
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“The number one reason that having Indigenous surgeons is important is purely because Indigenous people are amazing.” — Professor Kelvin Kong, Australia’s Indigenous Person of the Year.
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“Aboriginal people, if they appear at all in the landscape, are presented as ornamental figures, framing devices, exotic touches. Only rarely is their humanity expressed . . . Mostly they are simply absent.” — Kennedy Warne on the erasure of Aboriginal people in colonial art.
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“My work as an intellectual — ‘native’, ‘Black’, ‘public’ or otherwise — is not to be of service to the coloniser and their institutions.” — Chelsea Watego.
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