Recognising the hurt and pain of our First Peoples
January 23, 2021 12.21am
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Recognising the hurt and pain of our First Peoples
It was probably hard for Scott Morrison’s convict ancestor, who was transported for stealing yarn, and other British convicts (The Age, 22/1). However, it is the height of irony for a man of such power and status to compare this to the dispossession, cruelty and loss of life, family structure and culture experienced by Indigenous people in Australia which has resulted in well-documented intergenerational trauma.
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Margaret Court looks on during a Tennis Hall of Fame ceremony on day nine of the 2020 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on 28 January, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. (Getty/ Morgan Hancock)
Homophobic former tennis star Margaret Court, who thinks gay people are “abominable”, could be awarded Australia’s highest honour.
According to
Reuters, it has been reported that Court is set to be awarded a Companion in the General Division of the Order of Australia (AC) award on 26 January, the national Australia Day holiday.
Court has already received an Order of Australia award in 2007 for her services to tennis.
This year Australia Day falls as the Australian Open begins, as the tennis Grand Slam was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Sydney philanthropist and businessman Simon Mordant has warned that some of the nation’s leading cultural institutions face financial wipeout as audiences are yet to return to anywhere near pre-COVID-19 levels.
Mordant was last week named honorary professor at the Centre of Visual Arts at the University of Melbourne as part of its 10-year plan to raise the public profile of its cultural collections and to integrate them into the education program.