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Crafted alongside the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Catholic Council, it underscores the urgency of deepened engagement through listening, learning, and love, advocating for Indigenous justice and healing. By Andrew Hamilton
“Pain has an element of blank; It cannot recollect When it began, or if there were A day when it was not. It has no future but itself…
Its about First Nations people taking their rightful place in their country, how First Nations culture can be a gift to all Australians...
Sir Gerard Brennan, the former chief justice of the High Court of Australia who wrote the lead judgement in the Mabo case that laid down the legal notion of prior Aboriginal occupation of Australian land, has died in Sydney at the age of 94.
I’m referring to perhaps the most shameful act of wilful official inhumanity and negligence in the federation. I’m talking about the failure of federal and state governments, police forces and prison authorities over three decades to fully implement, as a priority, all - including some of the most critical - of the 339 recommendations of the 1991 royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody. It was 1968 when William Stanner evoked the “great Australian silence” and a “cult of disremembering” regarding Australia’s brutal history. Stanner might have hoped that 23 years late...