Going backward while Victoria moves forward
“New Zealand would do well to pay close attention to understand just how far it has moved towards the fringe of international political thought.” — Professor Dominic O’Sullivan.
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Tag: Australia
Whose Anzac Day is it?
“If we commemorate wars and service in war, then why not all wars? Why do we just remember the settler colonists and their wars? And why are those settler colonists the only ones remembered?” — Maarama Kāmira on Anzac Day in Australia.
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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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Making a life on unceded Indigenous land
“The realities of the settler nation determine the possibilities for how we, as Pacific Indigenous peoples, relate to one another when we build our lives on the unceded lands of fellow Indigenous peoples.” — Sam Iti Prendergast.
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A Māori “home” for our Sydney whānau
“As the mother of proud Aboriginal and Māori children and the partner of a proud Aboriginal man, I’m reminded every day that even though I’m a First Nations woman, I’m also a migrant because I came here when I was four years old.” — Jo Kāmira.
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Mozzies: We don’t cease to be Māori once we’ve left
“As ‘Mozzies’, our Māori identity is fluid and multi-faceted. We are Indigenous, we are Pacific peoples, we are largely urbanised living in a colonial world. There are many nuances to our identity.” — Ngāwaiata Henderson.
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