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...
The Australian continent in 1787 was a ‘desert and uncultivated’ land mass “Anthropology” a myth maker Part 1 of 2
Anthropology is a relatively new professional discipline that commenced in 1850 with the establishment of formal academic departments, professional societies and arduous fieldwork...
Being a legal “Aboriginal” today is a wank! An over-the-top glorification of a character that no longer exists…
In good faith and in the public interest let’s start having some honest conversation about the numerous people who have been given credit...
Born emersed in the Australian bush and died emersed in Australian civilisation David Gulpilil Part 3 of 3
Airlie Thomas, a whitefella nurse was David’s on and off de facto wife around 1990 -1993. Airlie Thomas believed David had an internal...
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...
‘Full Red Blood’ Australian David Gulpilil the boy then the man the camera found irresistible and mesmerising Part 1 of 3
David Gulpilil was born an Australian citizen with full citizenship rights. The Aboriginal flag and the red, black and yellow associated political and...
Albert Namatjira – Speak the truth, strip beliefs back to the core – Part 2 of 3
Albert Namatjira was a proud Australian full blood local native. The word Aboriginal is and was during his lifetime a word used for...
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...
Without assimilation Australian culture and values are being lost, confused, and overridden
Without assimilation Australian culture and values are being lost, confused, and overridden A national constitution is a set of rules for the responsible...
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...
