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He’s the foremost spiritual keeper of the yirdaki in Arnhem Land, but Djalu’s true gift to the Yolngu and the worlds beyond has been as a cultural ambassador
It’s almost seven years now since the London-based Australian filmmaker Ben Strunin began researching the life and times of one of northern Australia’s most compelling characters, Djalu Gurruwiwi.
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The ugly outpouring of anti-Muslim hatred seen in the beach riots of 2005 could easily be repeated again today anywhere in Australia
A decade ago a toxic brew of anti-Muslim hatred, alcohol, social media foment, threats to the mono-cultural beach scene of the Sutherland Shire and the noxious shock jock-ery of, among others, Alan Jones, manifested in the Cronulla riots.
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There are plenty of Indigenous people who could argue the case against a new constitutional settlement instead of a white, rightwing columnist
So, the ABC is turning the complex, divisive issue of constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians into a reality TV show featuring Andrew Bolt.
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The battle fought for and by LGBTI couples is echoed in the struggles of former convicts and Indigenous people against state restrictions on marriage rights
Sarah and Lazarus desperately wanted to marry.
Born in Somerset in 1813, the English justice system transported the 22-year-old Sarah Copley to Van Diemen’s Land in 1835. For her crime of stealing a chicken (her sister Mary was transported too for cooking the chook) she was held in the Cascades Female Factory at the foot of Mount Wellington, Hobart, until reassigned to domestic servitude.