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Everyday is Indigenous Peoples Day.
WE WERE HERE.
WE ARE HERE.
TODAY WE CELEBRATE INDIGENOUS EXISTENCE.
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8/11
Portrait of Aboriginal Private Harold Arthur Cowan from NSW, Australia, who served with the 6th Light Horse Regiment.
Original image source: Australian War Memorial
GWICwill be posting one portrait each day until November 11th.
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Policing the Quarantine
Heavy-handed policing was deployed in response to the Covid-19 outbreak in the nine tower blocks in Melbourne where residents are mainly Black, Brown and Asian. Fines have been administered more in suburbs where the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and/or migrant population is higher. But, the same logics of colonial policing used for over 200 years are also affecting other groups at a time when a policing, rather than a public-health oriented, response to the pandemic is being rolled-out by state governments with the use of fines, lockdowns, curfews, and even prison sentences against those who are seen as failing to comply with Covid orders.
Panellists
Roxanne Moore is a Noongar woman and human rights lawyer from Margaret River in Western Australia. She is the Executive Officer for the National Peak body on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services (NATSILS ). Previously, Roxanne was an Indigenous Rights Campaigner with Amnesty International Australia and Principal Advisor to Change the Record Coalition. Roxanne has worked for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner at the Australian Human Rights Commission, as Principal Associate to the Hon Chief Justice Wayne Martin AC QC; as a commercial litigator; and has international experience with UNHCR Jordan and New York University’s Global Justice Clinic. Roxanne studied law at the University of WA, and completed an LLM (International Legal Studies) at NYU, specialising in human rights law, as a 2013 Fulbright Western Australian Scholar. Professor
Megan Davis is Pro Vice-Chancellor Indigenous and Professor of Law at UNSW. She is Acting Commissioner of the NSW Land and Environment Court and was recently appointed the Balnaves Chair in Constitutional Law. Professor Davis currently serves as a United Nations expert with the UN Human Rights Council’s Expert Mechanism on the rights of Indigenous peoples based in UN Geneva. Megan is an Acting Commissioner of the NSW Land and Environment Court. Professor Davis is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences. She is a member of the NSW Sentencing Council and an Australian Rugby League Commissioner. Professor Davis was Director of the Indigenous Law Centre, UNSW Law from 2006-2016. Professor Davis is formerly Chair and expert member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (2011-2016). As UNPFII expert she was the focal point for UN Women and UN AIDS. During this period of UN service, Megan was the Rapporteur of the UN EGM on an Optional Protocol to the UNDRIP in 2015, the Rapporteur of the UN EGM on Combating violence against Indigenous women and girls in 2011 and the UN Rapporteur for the International EGM on Indigenous Youth in 2012. Megan has extensive experience as an international lawyer at the UN and participated in the drafting of the UNDRIP from 1999-2004 and is a former UN Fellow of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva.
Dr Vicki Sentas is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Law at UNSW. She researches processes of criminalisation and racialisation in law and policing. She teaches in criminal law, criminology and policing and coordinates the Police Powers Clinic, an experiential learning course, in partnership with Redfern Legal Centre. Her recent and current research projects examine: the effects of counter-terrorism practices on criminal justice and racialised peoples; the criminalisation of armed conflicts, self-determination and diasporas through the use of security lists; police powers and their relationship to diverse forms of regulation including pre-emption and prosecution; police accountability and criminal justice reform.
Decorated group with shields and boomerangs, Cardwell, 1890s by State Library of Queensland
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Creator:Unidentified.Location: Cardwell, Queensland. Description: This photograph shows a small group of men holding shields, boomerang and Nulla Nulla, with two Aboriginal women sitting on the ground. Most of the men have cicatrices [scarring], with two men wearing headbands, one with an armlet and one with a necklace, This group of people have been identified as the Cardwell Aboriginal group, known as Girramay. Body decoration and shield designs differ between Aboriginal Tribes and topographic location. The ceremony performed would depend on the body decoration used and the roles of the people in the ceremony. The fluffy body art used by several of the males in this photograph is from bird down and plant down, with animal fat applied as glue. View the original image at the State Library of Queensland: hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/146850Information about State Library of Queensland’s collection:www.slq.qld.gov.au/research-collectionsCultural Care statement (disclaimer) Users are advised that this Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander material may contain culturally sensitive imagery and descriptions which may not normally be used in certain public or community contexts. Annotation and terminology which reflects the creator’s attitude or that of the era in which the item was created may be considered inappropriate today. This material may also contain images, voices or names of deceased persons. Conditions of use: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander material is accessed and used in accordance with State Library’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collections Commitments. SLQ Collections Commitment_pdf.
“At the dawn of time, it was the Ancestral Beings – part human, part beast – who brought what was previously barren land to life. At the end of the Dreaming journeys, the Ancestral Being left aspects of themselves behind, transformed into part of the landscape.” — The Gunditjmara People and G. Wettenhall
What can Australia’s Budj Bim volcano, which inspired the world’s oldest story and earliest form of aquaculture, teach us about contemplative science, environmental sustainability, and spirituality?
Continued➤https://unityinplurality.blogspot.com/2020/02/aquaculture-complex.html
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A Tribe Called Red’s Formula for a killer show - Daily Vice
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Warriors Off The Rez: Aboriginal Gangs in Winnipeg
“Winnipeg is the capital of Manitoba, Canada — and for 16 of the past 33 years, it has also been the country’s murder capital. The prairie city is home to just under 800,000 people, about 10 percent of whom are Aboriginal, meaning Winnipeg boasts the largest urban Aboriginal population in Canada. Largely impoverished and facing continual discrimination, the community has given rise to violent Aboriginal street gangs. VICE News went to Winnipeg to spend time with gang members and find out why they’re linked to the majority of the city’s murders”
The Indigenous Basketball Team Fighting Gas Sponsorship
“The All Native Basketball Tournament has been held annually in Prince Rupert, British Columbia for 56 years and attracts up to 1,400 people per game in a community civic centre. The whole week has turned into a celebration of Indigenous sport and culture with a big party element that some people call Second Christmas. But with liquified natural gas companies now sponsoring the tournament some First Nations, led by reigning champions the Skidegate Saints, are bringing active protest to the week’s contest.
VICE Sports discovers why this event is so important to the communities, what makes their style of basketball unique and how politics has started to work its way into the games”
First Out Here: Indigenous Hip Hop in Canada
“Indigenous rappers in Canada reflect on a unique struggle. In a country where the most incarcerated population is aboriginal, these artists reflect on the crisis of Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women, conflicts around resource extraction on native land, and the protest movement Idle No More, which galvanized aboriginal communities from coast to coast. Indigenous rap doesn’t get enough attention outside of its vibrant scene. VICE host Rich Kidd went to Regina, Winnipeg and his hometown Toronto to meet some of the scene’s big names like Drezus, Winnipeg Boyz and David Strickland and up-and-comer T-Rhyme“
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A Tribe Called Red - The Manawan Session
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Ay, I’ve got new stuff
I may have stated befor but I’m an aboriginal artist. I’ve been trying to incorporate tradition aboriginal art into a contemporary digital art style, this is the result of that, the meaning of the art is basically different people coming together into the middle which is the syomble for meeting place or campfire.
Now available on my redbubble
_DSC5411by Bob Caddell
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Aboriginal rock art painting in the Kimberley, Western Australia.
