Just a little over five years ago, Australia witnessed its largest ever protests. A quarter of a million Sydneysiders marched across the Harbour Bridge, and hundreds of thousands of people… Read more »
indigenous struggles
Defend the Aboriginal Tent Embassy! Resist the racist ban on camping!
The National Indigenous Times calls the Aboriginal Tent Embassy “one of the enduring icons of Aboriginal dissent.” However, the Parliament of Australia webpage asks if the Tent Embassy “is an… Read more »
Freedom Socialist Party submission on the future of the Aboriginal tent Embassy
It is with reluctance that the Freedom Socialist Party — a socialist feminist political party with both Indigenous and non-Indigenous members — is putting forward this submission. We are reluctant,… Read more »
“Expressing the unexpressible” – Meet Monica Weightman, Indigenous musician and warrior
Her fans call her Monstar. When Monica Weightman steps up to the microphone, she and her guitar connect with everyone in the room. Her easy manner and rich, expressive voice… Read more »
Your Say
Law change the tip of the iceberg It was great to read the article on provocation in the Freedom Socialist Bulletin. Rob Hulls and John Thwaites have made all the… Read more »
Momentum builds to boycott the Melbourne Stolenwealth Games
The fiery battle for Land Rights was the big news of the 1982 Brisbane Commonwealth Games. Footage of massive protests by Aboriginal people and their supporters was beamed around the… Read more »
Indigenous land is NOT for sale
The Howard Government has already announced its plans to attack working people through the combination of its anti-union laws and attacks on welfare. But unless faced with mass resistance, it… Read more »
A conversation with Tasmanian Stolen Generations activist, Debra Hocking
Debra Hocking is an Indigenous woman stolen from her family and the Tasmanian representative on the National Sorry Day Committee. Debra is from the Mouheneenner nation in the southeastern part… Read more »
Reject shared responsibility agreements
Hooray for the National Indigenous Times (NIT) for blowing the whistle on the Howard Government’s appalling track record on Indigenous affairs. The paper recently published leaked Cabinet documents which revealed… Read more »
Expose the Redfern Cover-up!
On February 15, 2004 an Aboriginal teenager was chased by police through the streets of Sydney’s inner city suburb of Redfern. The police in their high-speed cars were in hot… Read more »
