Where else but on the sports field can an under-educated and even a troubled Aboriginal youth achieve celebrity status and social mobility?
- ANU Visiting Professor, Politics and International Relations, Australian National University
Preparations for next month’s Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast are pushing homeless people out of town, and out of the state. Sadly, that’s not unusual for events of this sort.
Australians boast of our warrior participation in every major war since 1899, and in every modern Olympiad since 1896.
Bodies established around the world to hear ‘black’ voices have an enduring problem: they advise, but are rarely – if ever – heard.
Very little is known about suicide and suicide attempts during modern genocides – but we do know there is an aftermath of suicide among victims.
We have an array of prevention agencies, lifeline programs, and public mantras about “being in life”. So why don’t they seem to work in rural and remote communities?
While Australia has largely chosen to shut its eyes to the Armenian genocide, many the nation’s allies — including Canada, France and even the Vatican — have adopted a more moral stance.
Victims of genocide die twice: first in the killing fields and then in the texts of denialists who insist that “nothing happened” or that what happened was something “different”. On the eve of two centennial…
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