1938 Day of Mourning – Aboriginal Civil Rights Protest
1938 Day of Mourning, ‘Man Magazine’ In November 1937, William Ferguson the organising secretary and co-founder of the Aborigines Progressive Association of New South Wales travelled to Melbourne to...
View ArticleRemembering Jack Patten (1905 – 1957)
President Jack Patten reads the resolution, ‘Man Magazine’ 1938. John Thomas Patten (28 March, 1905 – 12 October, 1957) was an Australian Aboriginal leader, professional boxer, journalist and civil...
View ArticleRemembering Margaret Tucker (1904 – 1996)
A lifelong civil rights campaigner, Margaret Tucker (nee Clements) was a Yorta Yorta (Dhulinyagan) woman born at Warrangesda Mission on the Murrumbidgee River in NSW in 1904, to parents William and...
View ArticleIs Australia Day held on the wrong date?
Australia Day – Invasion Day Is Australia Day held on the wrong date? An attempt to provide an answer to this important question was recently made by Yarra City Council in Melbourne. Councillors voted...
View ArticleAddressing Fake History
Toppled Captain Cook statueA recent series of attacks on Australian monuments dedicated to the likes of British seafarer Captain James Cook and early New South Wales Governor Lachlan Macquarie, have...
View ArticleThe Hypocrisy of Australia Day
Australia Day or Invasion Day? As the mercury rises and many Aussies continue to recover from the festive season and the extra helpings of Pavlova that probably shouldn’t have been consumed, many...
View ArticleNative Title is NOT Land Rights
Native title is NOT Land Rights The way in which a Koori person identifies with our culture, Country and history is complex. Each of us are the sum of over 65,000 years of unbroken history, family...
View ArticleBlack Lives Matter: America, George Floyd, and the Aboriginal Australian...
Black Lives Matter: Illustration by John T. Patten Australia like the rest of the world, is currently looking on in horror, as the United States of America tears itself apart. Peaceful protests in...
View ArticleWhere to Next?
Illustration by John T. Patten What began as a city-wide protest in the US city of Minneapolis, when a white police officer murdered George Floyd, an unarmed African American man, has now fanned out...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Statue & Memorial Debate
Toppled James Cook statue. As the Black Lives Matter protests continue in many parts of the world, the discussion has turned to the validity of statues, and other relics of the past, which for many...
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