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Sydney Writers' Festival - SWF Great Debate: The Future is Still Worth Waiting For
Tom Ballard (Australian) Tom Ballard is the fearlessly funny voice of a generation. Tom is one of Australia's favourite comic talents and has performed and won acclaim as a stand-up all around the world. Tom hosts a political interview podcast called Like I'm a Six Year Old and he is also the co-creator and co-host of green politics podcast Serious Danger alongside Emerald Moon.
Fund and fund alike?
The Policy Coalmines granted licences for Sydney drinking water Just a day before the caretaker period commenced in New South Wales, the Perrottet government quietly introduced new rules that will give coalmining companies access to water from the drinking water catchment in Sydney and the Illawarra, in what environmental campaigners are calling a “cynical attempt” to legislate practices that had been occurring at mine sites for years.
Dr Amy Thunig On Why Women Deserve The Right To Rest
Not to be confused with the three Rs of Reading, Writing and Arithmetic, I have been taught to value the three Rs of Respect, Reciprocity and Relationship as core principles in navigating this life. These shape my approach when communing with people, Country and within my work as a teacher, writer and researcher. So if you had asked me before last year if I was honouring these principles in how I treat myself, I would have said “sure” with some confidence.
Up to their usual Antics
GOOD OPINION An Australian homecoming “It’s important from a cultural standpoint. But for all Australians it’s important because it’s that first point in our shared history of Australia as we know, today.” Dharawal man and chair of the Gujaga Foundation Ray Ingrey says the repatriation from Cambridge University of four spears stolen from Kamay/Botany Bay by Captain James Cook is a welcome step towards recognising the shared history of Australia.
Ep 201 - Best of 2022 - Live from Canberra — Chat 10 Looks 3
(2.02) Breville Pizzaiolo Smart Oven| Website (5.00) Kitchen Garden Foundation | Website (24.00) Unplanned Melodies | Facebook (36.00) Harry & Meghan | Netflix | Trailer (45.00) The White Lotus Season 2 | Binge | Trailer (48.30) Best of 2022 TV Crabb - Better things | Disney+ | Trailer Bad Sisters | Apple TV+ | Trailer Sales - Borgen Power and Glory | Netflix | Trailer The Parisian Agency | Trailer | Netflix Film Crabb - The War of the Buttons | Trailer Sales - George Michael Freedom...
FNFD interview: a fashion force of fresh perspective and talent
Grace Lillian Lee and Teagan “TJ” Cowlishaw are a fashion force who together exemplify what vision, friendship and a deep love for design and community can achieve. The director and chief operations officer respectively of First Nations Fashion and Design (FNFD) are together building something bigger than a brand; they’re leading a movement. “What we are talking about is Indigenous intellectual property rights, heart, soul and storyline,” says Cowlishaw.
Friday essay: 'not for me' – Amy Thunig on the stigma of having a dad in 'lock-up', and the embrace of Indigenous academia
The energy of academic conferences isn’t like your average conference. It is the bringing together of academics from universities all around the country, sometimes around the globe, all working within similar or related specialisations. This means one thing: niche gossip and lots of it. There’s a reason why so many academics love reality television – we have intensely intellectual, oftentimes dry jobs, meaning much of the juicy elements of our roles come from the interpersonal relationships.
Dr Amy Thunig's Tell Me Again author tour
Amy Thunig is touring the East Coast of Australia in November to promote her memoir Tell Me Again. Please see the itinerary below.
Arts Admin isn't just about administration... it's about culture
Indigenous performing arts is a testament to collective drive and vision If the recent skirmish over federal arts funding teaches us anything, it’s that even the best-laid plans are not set in stone. With a change of government or the swearing in of a new minister, an entire ecology can be swiftly placed in a precarious position. If the foundations are unstable, it can all come tumbling down.
Arts Admin isn't just about administration... it's about cultrue
Indigenous performing arts is a testament to collective drive and vision If the recent skirmish over federal arts funding teaches us anything, it’s that even the best-laid plans are not set in stone. With a change of government or the swearing in of a new minister, an entire ecology can be swiftly placed in a precarious position. If the foundations are unstable, it can all come tumbling down.
Tell Me Again
The most inspirational and important memoir of 2022. (Trade paperback) Ships on 1/11/2022 Overview For years, Amy Thunig thought she knew all the details about the day she was born, often demanding that the story of her birth be retold. Years later, heavily pregnant with her own first child, she learns what really happened that day.
The power of telling our stories
Storytelling is a significant way of growing a community, of building up accomplices and solidarity, and whilst it is through information we might come to know, it is through storying we might come to understand. We have seen time and time again, but especially during this global pandemic, the immense value of storytelling. And how fitting it is that we would come together for an event such as this, in a time such as now, on the lands of the oldest continuous cultures of the world.
WTF is a PhD? Demystifying the process + opportunities for aspiring Indigenous PhD students
Bachelor Graduation, 2012 Masters Graduation, 2015 I am a Kamilaroi/Gamilaroi woman. I have a Bachelor of Arts degree (English and Creative Arts), and a Masters Degree in Teaching (Primary). So before starting my PhD in 2017 I already had two university degrees, and a combined total of five years of University study. I am a qualified primary school teacher, a mum of three little legends (one is my step-daughter, who I have the privilege of continued co-parenting), and I am thirty years old.
Indigenous academic women: treated as ‘black performer’ in higher education
In recent decades it has become increasingly common for higher education institutions in so-called Australia to engage in institutional branding and marketing which position their organisations as ‘inclusive’, ‘equitable’ and committed to ‘indigenising’ their curriculums and research practice.
What organising an Invasion Day rally taught Amy Thunig about solidarity
The areas now commonly referred to as the Hunter Valley, Newcastle and Lake Macquarie are located around two hours North of Sydney and, depending on where you draw your lines, cross the unceded lands of Gomeroi, Worimi, Wonnarua, Darkinjung, and Awabakal Nations. This is where I was born, and this is where I now call home. We have beautiful walks, lakes, ocean cliffs, beaches, and this year we had our own Invasion Day Rally on January 26th.
Season 1, Episode 1: Professor Marcia Langton AM
January 1, 2020 Amy Thunig Uncategorized My inaugural guest for Blacademia, Season 1, Episode 1 is the phenomenal PROFESSOR MARCIA LANGTON AM. In this episode I yarn up with Professor Langton about: The value of attaining formal education and training, and how this can then be utilised to practically support our communities. Aboriginal deaths in custody Problems with terms like ‘ally’ and ‘allyship’ Professor Langton’s favourite part of being a blacademic Guest Bio Prof.
Disruption is not a dirty word
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'Top End Wedding' Is The Uplifting Rom-Com Australia Needs
I cried in this movie and I cried like a baby, and I am still going to one hundred percent recommend you go see this film in cinemas. Among 2019’s bevvy of cinematic gems shines the Australian pearl Top End Wedding.
"Hey white journos! It is fantastic that theres mainstream interest in unpacking But rather than hitting up PoC to gift you their time v […]" #KAK
Hey white journos! It is fantastic that theres mainstream interest in unpacking #KAK But rather than hitting up PoC to gift you their time via interviews, how about you suggest to your editor that they book/commission a PoC writer for this one? Had 3 requests today alone. #KAK 1/ I am aware I’ve been subtweeted by Shannon Molloy. He is someone who today asked me to give him an interview, I declined due to his past behaviour on Twitter. I declined via email.
Debunking 'Protests do nothing'
The crowds were parents, carers, leaders, teachers, health workers, community members, and representative of so many walks of life. To paint January 26th rallies as a waste of time, and a collective of people worth dismissing, is to ignore the consistent growth in numbers, public discourse, and broader understanding which has been attained since the first formal day of mourning and protest in 1938.
Invasion Day rallies show that ignoring persecution is no longer an option
Scroll to top Email address or username Remember me "While the marches are sometimes referred to as 'change the date' rallies, this is not accurate. These rallies are about changing the discourse." Invasion Day protesters in Melbourne (Image: AAP/James Ross). The blistering heat of Friday meant the air was still warm when we rose and met at 5am in the pre-dawn darkness of Melbourne. Feeling anxious about the day ahead, I joined with others and we made our way through the dark and into the city.
Australia, Who The Bloody Hell Are You?
Amy Thunig Associate Lecturer in Educational Studies, Macquarie University 2019-01-23T00:45:44+00:00 As January 26 approaches for 2019, there has been an increase, more perhaps than in previous memory, of public discussion and impassioned debate about the event we have come to know as ‘Australia Day’.
Australia's Christmas cognitive dissonance
As the weather warms and the days grow longer, the many signs of summer and the Christmas season become unmissable. Magpie swooping season has finished, with the baby maggies leaving their nests to hop around and attempt to warble. Mosquitos and the scent of citronella fill the evening air, and every grocery store has an abundance of cheap plastic toys, gift box chocolates, and pavlova bases.
#BuskingBecky Is Yet Another Instance Of The Silencing Of Indigenous Voices
Photo credit: Indigenous Social Justice Association (ISJA Melbourne) You’ve heard of #PermitPatty, #BBQBecky, #CornerstoneCaroline, and #PoolPatrolPatty — now it’s time to meet Australia’s own #BuskingBecky, AKA Melbourne busker Tanya George. #BuskingBecky crying about her set being inconvenienced by blak deaths in custody. BYE COLONISER! Who’s land you live on?
We do not need to give Abbott a chance, we know who he is
I have been trying, and failing, to understand the behaviour and trajectory of the current government, and in particular the leadership on display by our new Prime Minister Scott Morrison. The creation of the position of ‘Special Envoy to Indigenous Affairs’ is a role which no one was calling for, but even more baffling than the creation of the role, has been Morrison’s decision to offer this role to Tony Abbott.
Eureka Street
The politicians of today and tomorrow need to educate themselves on who the Australian voter is, listen to what we are calling for, and genuinely attempt to deliver it. It is time for our leaders to be better informed, better educated, and better at listening. This is what is required to lead, and if they are not capable, they will be left behind.
Australians are leaving our leaders behind
I've been reflecting a lot recently on the ways in which the estimation of the Australian voter, as demonstrated by the decisions made by those elected and paid to represent us, fails to line up with what I see interwoven and strongly demonstrated in our society. I have seen numerous signs displayed in places of worship and community hubs, calling for #KidsOffNauru.
Scott Morrison's 'Daggy Dad' Marketing Isn't Fooling Anyone
Since the latest #LibSpill six weeks ago it’s pretty clear Team Scott Morrison has a three-step marketing strategy in place to sell him to the public, and is sticking with it. Step 1: the Aussie voter needs to want to buy into good old ‘ScoMo’, a.k.a the ‘Daggy Dad’, with his ‘average’ mortgage, young family and patriotic flag pins. Bonus points for throwing in some pop culture-flavoured social media action for the millennials, and watch out — a ‘black friend’ for the diversity crowd.
Educator resource: ‘But I am NOT ABORIGINAL I don’t know how to do this stuff!’
Please note: this is a running blog, meaning I update it occasionally, as more resources come to my attention. Last update: May 6th, 2020 It is my honour to work in higher education, I absolutely love it, and the energy of the students is such a joy to be around. I LOVE being a teacher! My background is also being a teacher in primary school. I love teachers, and the energy, passion, and care that so many bring with them every single day to their spaces.
10 questions I get from non-Indigenous students
"Do you think Aboriginal people have been helped to survive to this point because of white people?" I have been working as an academic for a couple of years now, and have found that every semester many of my students bring in to the course any number of stereotypical or misguided assumptions or beliefs about Indigenous people and history.
Don't buy the body lie
I watched on as she fixed a ribbon in her hair, gave herself a small smile, and, standing up, began to push her trolley up the street and out of sight. As my bus pulled out and rounded the corner, I could see that both she and her trolley had joined the line of people queuing outside of the local soup kitchen. I was maybe 16 at the time, but there was something about that moment that stayed with me.
Amy Thunig: Indigenous academic women, because of her, we can.
Teaching in a university setting is a position of privilege, engaging in research even more so. The opportunity for impact is high, you are teaching and informing future world shapers and leaders, and are surrounded by people of incredible talents and intellect. Having been engaged as a new career academic, and research assistant in a higher education institution for close to two years, and enrolled in a PhD for eighteen months, I recognise how fortunate I am to have these opportunities.
Margaret Dooley Emerging Indigenous Writer Fellowship
Ohhh my gosh – What a busy, fun, and daunting few weeks! This year I have decided to open myself up to more new experiences, so it is very exciting to share this news 𙂠I am the very fortunate recipient of the Margaret Dooley Emerging Indigenous Writer Fellowship for 2018! This means I will be a regular, paid columnist for the next twelve months, with IndigenousX and EurekaStreet! I am so excited to develop my writing in a non-academic space, and to be able to share my academic experiences...
Family diversity brings new reasons to feast
Being children in Cabramatta in the early 1990s, my older sister Jay and I were familiar with the neighbourhood backyards in our little cul-de-sac, filled with chickens and thriving vegetable patches. We would play in and out of many of the homes, enjoying life in our diverse neighbourhood, and most of my memories of that time centre around food, either eating it or watching it be processed.
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