Archive 4 Columns
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Where the disabled toilets are does not matter to me anymore… but…
In between COVID-19 lockdowns, I spent the weekend with friends on the Bellarine Peninsula. We went out to lunch at a very popular...
ByMaria Rigoni02/05/2025David Gulpilil shivering like a fish in the billabong before going back to his waterhole to be a little fish again Part 2 of 3
David Gulpilil is one of the last first-contact natives. He was about eight years old when he first saw a whitefella land in...
ByMaria Rigoni03/11/2025Feel love, show love, share love of time and life
Once upon a heaven’s day Love came to me with tears of joy and sadness. Help us, help us, the masses cried. Help...
ByMaria Rigoni08/05/2025Transvestite, transgender, cross-dresser, drag queen and gender fluid, maybe a social normal for some people but that does not equal a standard norm of society
In recent years there has been various political arguments in relation to males being allowed to compete in females sports and enter female...
ByMaria Rigoni01/05/2025Did any wheelchair user have independent egress off the cruise ship that did sink leaving this wheelchair in the muddy slush?
We are all human you know… individuals in our own right and collectively without distinction, without placing labels, without differentiating any of us....
ByMaria Rigoni02/05/2025Anthropology pulls the wool over our faces to allow the sheep in wolves’ clothes to settle into the paddock with the flock Part 2 of 2
Past injustice has been acknowledged – but modern Australia has allowed it to dominate identity, law, and narrative beyond what is proportionate or...
ByMaria Rigoni30/03/2026Without me, there is no we…
Jointly as a married couple and separately as individual human beings it must have been nothing but our imagination that had excluded us...
ByMaria Rigoni28/04/2025Albert Namatjira is happy with what whitefella gave not what the blackfella takes – Part 3 of 3
It was not what the whitefella gave Albert Namatjira, more exactly, it was what the blackfella took from him and society that made...
ByMaria Rigoni08/05/2025The Social Model of Disability is a joke Joyce!
Australia’s proud culture was built on taking the Micky out of all and sundry especially ourselves. Jokes are a fantastic tool to allow...
ByMaria Rigoni02/05/2025The Great Betrayal: How a High Court Rewrite is Resurrecting Feudalism in Australia
Australia’s founding promise was simple: one law for all. But a radical, quite shift in the High Court’s interpretation of property has effectively...
ByMaria Rigoni19/05/2026“Sovereignty Never Ceded” Is Not History – It’s a Political Weapon Against the Real Legal Foundation of Australia
Let’s look at the reason why the 1992 Mabo decision was a political judicial error and how three centuries of natural law, occupation...
ByMaria Rigoni10/05/2026Native title – The Australian judicial & parliamentarians’ action is political insanity and an act of treason
Paul Keating muttered the High Court “rejected a lie and acknowledged a truth” and, after a convoluted negotiation, parliament legislated the Native Title...
ByMaria Rigoni30/03/2026