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“Survival work, when done alongside social movement demands for transformative change, is called mutual aid.” – Dean Spade As quoted from his book Mutual Aid…

Last modified on Tue 25 May 2021 22.10 EDT Elaine Crombie stands on a black box stage, surrounded by midden shells on mounds of black earth, her hands clasped in tension. The rage is there in this singular woman’s emotionally affecting performance – and so is the grief. Crombie, a Yankunytjatjara, Warrigmal and South Sea Islander woman with German ancestry, speaks English and Kamilaroi in this one-woman play, The 7 Stages of Grieving. She finds the sharp rhythm in the poetry of invasion: “My children, stolen away to a safe place, were wrenched from familiar arms and forced to f...

Domestic Violence does NOT discriminate. It doesn’t matter if you're black, white or brindle. It happens in every town, city, state, country around the world! What does discriminate, however, are the systems in place; systems that are set up to fail so many women, but especially Aboriginal women. Discrimination and racism are two of the leading factors when it comes to systems failing Aboriginal women: they are used as a form of power and control which in turn makes them, in many instances, the enabler of violence that results in death. They are in my view two of the biggest perpetrators o...

Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety found last year that police responses often displayed “racism and biased attitudes”. The result is a larger number of First Nations women listed as perpetrators of domestic violence; and what their advocates say is a failure by police to properly understand their circumstances. In February, the Queensland government announced a taskforce would be established to consult with domestic violence survivors, service providers, lawyers and the general community about coercive control, which includes tactics such as blocking victim...

Premium Content Subscriber only A WOMAN who went before an Ipswich court on her 11th offence for driving while disqualified will remain in jail for some time due to long delays in processing Queensland parole applications. Jade Stelling was given immediate parole eligibility but now faces uncertainty as to the time it will take when making her case for parole release. Thousands of prisoners are experiencing long delays by the parole board in finalising their applications, the Ipswich Magistrate Court heard when she was sentenced. Appearing from jail via video-link Jade Teresa Stelling, 31, fr...