The Bloodwood Tree

An Aboriginal friend today told me about someone she knew who had been taken from her family as a child and effectively kept as a servant in a “good white family”. One of the jobs she was given was to dust the skulls of her ancestors that her white family had dug up and kept […]

Once again, the word “illegal” has illegally been brought back into the media when discussing the plight of people fleeing often unimaginable horrors to escape to Australia. Asylum seekers are not illegal, they are protected by international law. If Australia was to pass a law that made them illegal we ourselves would be in breach […]