Sol Bellear News Today

Keating was the first Australian prime minister to acknowledge the damage done by invasion, dispossession and assimilation policies. Those who were there remember its impact

There is some sense, right now, of the type of hope for true reconciliation that was in the ether around 2000. But it must be more than a word

A warning to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; this article contains references to people who have died. I love walking through cemeteries. I love to read the gravestones. They are like the first and last page of a novel whose contents I will never know. Here lies many from my community; they were born, lived, and then lost. They were loved. This evening I am walking with my 11-year-old daughter and my husband through Mullumbimby’s cemetery. It is a quiet and beautiful place. I fe...