Aboriginal Liberation Through Integration
The task of reducing Aboriginal violence is not primarily about more or better women’s shelters, night patrols, police stations, anti-violence education programs, alcohol and drug programs and restrictions, or longer sentences for Aboriginal perpetrators of violence. While such measures may have crucial roles in securing victim safety, they have been unable to address the inability of separate Aboriginal communities, either in remote, discrete locations, or in the cities, to expunge norms of violence. If we keep to a self-determination model, we will keep needing crisis responses, major inquiries and interventions, and decades more of assaulted Aboriginal women having to abandon their country and their community in order to get some safety. We will keep having to endure the painful dilemma of either leaving Aboriginal children in households and communities of chronic neglect and abuse, or taking them away to a place of safety to live their lives with the indelible pain of being…
Madam: Archbishop Fisher (July-August 2024) does not resist the attacks on his church by the political, social or scientific atheists and those who insist on not being told what to do.
Aug 29 2024
6 mins
To claim Aborigines have the world's oldest continuous culture is to misunderstand the meaning of culture, which continuously changes over time and location. For a culture not to change over time would be a reproach and certainly not a cause for celebration, for it would indicate that there had been no capacity to adapt. Clearly this has not been the case
Aug 20 2024
23 mins
A friend and longtime supporter of Quadrant, Clive James sent us a poem in 2010, which we published in our December issue. Like the Taronga Park Aquarium he recalls in its 'mocked-up sandstone cave' it's not to be forgotten
Aug 16 2024
2 mins