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DisabilityModern Society

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...

AboriginalArtAustraliaDavid Gulpilil

David 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...

Modern Society

Feel 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...

Biological SexModern Society

Transvestite, 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...

DisabilityModern Society

Did 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....

AboriginalAustraliaFirst Fleet 1788Norman TindaleSir William Blackstone

Anthropology 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...

AustraliaDisabilityModern Society

Without 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...

AboriginalAlbert NamatjiraArtAustraliacitizenshipRex Battarbee

Albert 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...

DisabilityModern Society

The 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...

AboriginalAustraliaConstitutionGerard BrennanGough WhitlamRace

The 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...

AboriginalAustraliaLois Lowitja O'DonoghueNative TitlePolitics

Native 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...