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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 was administered by the Catholic Church. By Celeste Liddle

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 that's been more community and grassroots and asking the hard questions from the outside," she said. "Even being so invested in higher education, I was a uni student last year and I have worked in t...