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 […]

“Today we honour the Indigenous peoples of this land, the oldest continuing cultures in human history.
We reflect on their past mistreatment.
We reflect in particular on the mistreatment of those who were stolen generations - this blemished chapter in our nation’s history.
The time has now come for the nation to turn a new page in Australia’s […]