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Ieva Priedkalns, 24/06/20
The recent death of George Floyd and the ensuing Black Lives Matter protests in America sparked long overdue anger and conversation about police brutality. They also forced Australia to confront its own prevalent and all-pervasive systemic racism that has led to statistics such as those found by the Australian Government, which show Indigenous Australians make up just 2% of total population, but 27% of prison population. This means that they are 15 times more likely to become incarcerated. Why is this?
The answer lies in a national culture of suppressed violent history, institutional racism and unacknowledged generational trauma. The resources collected on this page are intended to provide a launching pad for learning about Australia’s racist history and continual shunning and silencing of the first culture on the land, as well as statistics and stories that deconstruct the general racial inequality within our country.
Often Australia’s brutal history is forgotten/ignored by those in power; only a fortnight ago our Prime Minister Scott Morrison declared that ‘there was no slavery’ in Australian history and never had been, despite the succinct documentation of Australia’s own history of ‘blackbirding’ - from 1836 some 62,000 Pasifika people were tricked or forced into coming to work for minimal pay in slave-like conditions on the Queensland sugar plantations.
Some of these resources will provide links to further research and tools for activism, but if you would like to access more information, feel free to contact the NHS Spiel for assistance at newspapernhs@gmail.com.
ARTICLES:
ARTICLES:
- Scott Morrison sorry for 'no slavery in Australia' claim and acknowledges 'hideous practices'
- Welcome to The Anti-Racism Movement – Here’s What You’ve Missed
- Why we organised Melbourne’s Black Lives Matter rally
- Deflecting from the real issue of Black Lives Matter
- We examined every Indigenous death in custody since 2008. This is why.
- We must bear witness to black deaths in our own country
- An Antiracist Reading List
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/books/review/antiracist-reading-list-ibram-x-kendi.html
WEBSITES:
WEBSITES:
- Wurundjeri
https://www.wurundjeri.com.au/
- Treaty in Victoria
https://www.aboriginalvictoria.vic.gov.au/treaty
- Disproportionate Incarceration Rate
- Deaths inside: Indigenous Australian deaths in custody 2020
- Anti-racism resources
https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1BRlF2_zhNe86SGgHa6-VlBO-QgirITwCTugSfKie5Fs/mobilebasic
- Anti-racism resources from Australia and beyond
https://www.vwt.org.au/anti-racism-resources-from-australia-and-beyond/
- Indigenous deaths in custody
- Grandmothers Against Removals
BOOKS:
BOOKS:
- Truganini by Cassandra Pybus
- How to Be an Antiracist, historian and author Professor Ibram X. Kendi
https://www.penguin.com.au/books/how-to-be-an-antiracist-9781473570979
- So you want to talk about race by Ijeoma Oluo
https://www.bookdepository.com/So-You-Want-Talk-About-Race-Ijeoma-Oluo/9781580058827
- Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
https://avidreader.com.au/products/dark-emu-1
- Talking to My Country by Stan Grant
- Too Much Lip by Melissa Lukashenko
https://www.uqp.com.au/books/too-much-lip
- This book is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robert DiAngelo
https://www.penguin.com.au/books/white-fragility-9780141990569
- Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia by Anita Heiss
https://www.blackincbooks.com.au/books/growing-aboriginal-australia
- Why I’m no longer Talking to White People About Race
- Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
https://www.meandwhitesupremacybook.com/
- White Tears/ Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad
THINGS TO WATCH:
THINGS TO WATCH:
- UN investigation: Australia has a problem with institutionalised racism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=junGEJP3F1M
- In My Blood it Runs
- Is Australian Racist?
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/875663427897/is-australia-racist
- Systematic Racism Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=YrHIQIO_bdQ&app=desktop
- The Hate U Give
https://itunes.apple.com/au/movie/the-hate-u-give/id1438072645
- Systemic Racism: Australia's great white silence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHuvxdYfPyo
- Samson & Delilah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cWDYdXdPaU
- The Australian Dream
THINGS TO LISTEN TO:
THINGS TO LISTEN TO:
- About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
https://www.aboutracepodcast.com/
- Black Witness, White Witness – an episode from 7am
https://7ampodcast.com.au/episodes/black-witness-white-witness
- Curtain The Podcast hosted by Amy McQuire and Martin Hodgson
- Indigenous Incarceration is a form of systematic violence which is an episode of Violent Times by VICE Australia
- Black Magic Woman by Mundanara Bayles
https://open.spotify.com/show/5h2qtieWI35T0H2ZkkeSDL?si=BQCJWqlJTYaZ5EXvdZr3qw
- Always was, always will be our stories by Marlee Silva
https://open.spotify.com/show/1TMZMcKnu2xQXfrPHvdMMZ?si=t8gvwuo-QK6QnEE9yOIefg
- Subtleties of Shutting Up which is an episode of The Subtlety of It by Nana of SYN Media
https://open.spotify.com/episode/27uiMlq8Hd9OoaxNAMP3nd?si=EcaVia6mT7GncMmgW1-IQA
DONATE:
DONATE:
- Pay the rent
- Black Rainbow
http://www.blackrainbow.org.au/
- Children’s Ground
https://childrensground.org.au/campaigns/donate/
- ANTaR
- Indigenous Allied Health Australia (IAHA)
- Common Ground
https://commonground.raisely.com/
- Justice for David Dungay fund
https://au.gofundme.com/f/d9qkb6-justice-for-david
- Justice for Yuendumu: Inquiry on Police Shooting
https://www.gofundme.com/f/justice-for-yuendumu-inquiry-on-police-shooting
- In Memory of Joyce Clarke
https://www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory-of-joyce-clarke
- FreeHer
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