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Celeste Liddle is an Arrernte woman, union organiser, opinion writer and social commentator.

An online forum discussing the power of protest was organised by the Refugee Action Collective Victoria. Chris Slee reports.

Across the Pacific Ocean, in Canada or ‘Turtle Island’ as it is also known by many of its Indigenous inhabitants, a horror has been unfolding. It started at a the former residential school in Kamloops, British Colombia where, via the use of ground penetrating radar technology, the remains of at least 215 Native Canadian children were found buried in mass unmarked gravesites. This school ran for 85 years, was part of compulsory government programs to forcibly assimilate these children, and wa...

After photos of her in blackface surfaced, Scarlet Adams was finally forced to address her racist past in this week's episode of 'Drag Race Down Under.'

  Ms Liddle has lived in the area for almost 20 years and said she never had political aspirations until the COVID-19 pandemic began. She said after watching the hard work that our people did to keep communities safe, and also witnessing the struggles people have gone through over the past 14 months, it was time to put herself forward to try and affect some change. "I have done a lot of activism thats been more community and grassroots and asking the hard questions from the outside," she said...

Drag Race Down Under episode 1 elimination] However, in Ru Paul’s exact words, “your message was right on, but your execution was off,” and Zaho was told to lip-sync for her life, ironically, to ‘Tragedy’ by the Bee Gees. The judges, overall, responded positively to Zaho’s message of Indigenous Sovereignty but agreed the look seemed “unfinished” (a little hypocritical considering RuPaul didn’t even bother wearing drag for the judging, but I digress).  Judge, Michelle Visage...

It’s a tradition of mine to undertake my own “media watch” experiment following the annual Invasion Day rallies. I ended up being pleasantly surprised. By Celeste Liddle

By Tommy ChristopherDec 19th, 2020, 8:45 am Photo by Thirdman from Pexels Some questions are better left unanswered, but the takeover of Twitter by carp is too confounding to ignore — as evidence by the zillions of carp tweets that have flooded social media over the past 12 hours or so. There is a LOT of chatter on Twitter about carp, much of it now centered on figuring out why everyone is tweeting about carp, which might make you wonder if some coincidental concentration of organic tweets a...

Solidarity and asking the right questions     2020 has been an incredibly tough year for many but especially, I’d argue, for those of us living in Melbourne and Victoria. It’s December and the warm weather is rolling in. We’re finally able to enjoy it — going outside to feel the rays on the skin while having a beer feels medicinal after such a year. Yet unfortunately, rather than reminisce on what has passed, what has been achieved and this newfound ‘freedom’, the Australian right...

Higher education should be for everyone     At the beginning of this year, in what was a spur of the moment decision, I applied to undertake a Masters degree. It had been a long time coming. Indeed, when I finished honours in 2002, I had planned to enter the workforce, enjoy not being utterly broke for a bit, then return to uni to begin my PhD. Seven years later, I finally realised that wasn’t going to happen so I enrolled in a graduate diploma to ‘dip my toes’ back in the world of acad...