Over the past decade, laws in Western Australia have sent thousands of people to prison for unpaid fines. Aboriginal women are particularly vulnerable, and in the worst cases, have been arrested when they called for help.
Tag: Indigenous Australians
‘It’s Entirely Up to Me’: Indigenous Australians Find Empowerment in Start-Ups
Indigenous entrepreneurs say that the field is an alluring, empowering avenue to take their destiny in into their own hands.
‘The People Making It Are Indigenous, but Indigenous Is Not a Genre’
The weeklong First Nations Dialogues sets out to challenge the idea that Indigenous performance fits any single description.
Letter 84: Reconciliation and Why ‘When in Doubt, Go’ Makes for Better Journalism
This week’s Australia Letter reveals the back story to a dispatch from a small town where a battle over a “massacre” monument has stirred hatred, division… and peace.
Australia dispatch: Were These Killings a ‘Massacre’? And Who Gets to Decide?
A small coastal town had a bitter fight over a monument, and in the end Aboriginal Australians saw their version of history told.