Lilly Brown – The Conversation

Leetona Dungay, the mother of the late David Dungay Jr, announces she will go to the United Nations to hold the federal and NSW Government to account for their failure to protect the right to life of David Dungay Jr. and for their failure to take action to stop First Nations deaths in custody. Dan Himbrechts/AAP

August 30, 2021

Incarceration Nation exposes the racist foundations of policing and imprisonment in Australia, but at what cost?

Latoya Aroha Rule, University of Technology Sydney; Lilly Brown, The University of Melbourne, and Natalie Ironfield, The University of Melbourne

Incarceration Nation has the potential to shake the very core of your understanding of what it means to be Blak on this continent.

Shoes and toys line the steps of a building in Edmonton in honour of and mourning for the Indigenous children found in unmarked graves in Canada. The Canadian Press/Jason Franson

July 30, 2021

The discovery of Indigenous children’s bodies in Canada is horrific, but Australia has similar tragedies it’s yet to reckon with

Lilly Brown, The University of Melbourne

The recent discovery of the bodies of Indigenous children being found in Canada reminds us of the dark history of Australia’s treatment of young First Peoples and children here in Australia.

In My Blood It Runs/ABC

July 1, 2020

In My Blood It Runs challenges the ‘inevitability’ of Indigenous youth incarceration

Lilly Brown, The University of Melbourne

This new Australian documentary follows 12-year-old Dujuan Hoosan from Garrwa country to Geneva.

Journalists need to understand the complexities of Aboriginal family violence. AAP/Joe Castro

November 24, 2016

Why we need to educate journalists about Aboriginal women’s experience of family violence

Lilly Brown, The University of Melbourne

Violence against women is a national priority, and Aboriginal women are disproportionately affected. This must be reported on appropriately in the media.

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