Facing a new day
“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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Tag: Aboriginal
Showing respect by voting yes
“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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The Voice referendum: Yes and No
“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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Kelvin Kong: Your Māori elders are my heroes
“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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No stone without a name
“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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Chelsea Watego: I’m not afraid of the dark
“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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