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Keywords: Elders

  • EDUCATION

    Parable of the long-suffering teacher

    • Fatima Measham
    • 26 August 2009
    5 Comments

    Students are more proficient in technology than their teachers and are accessing information their elders would not have known. They wonder, if they can already function as if they have finished school, then what's the point of school? It's a fair question. 

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Yes we can achieve justice for Indigenous Australians

    • Michael Mullins
    • 17 August 2009
    1 Comment

    The death of a WA Aboriginal elder in a prison van last year was one of the worst human rights tragedies in Australian living memory. A recent speech by Governor-General Quentin Bryce evoked a more optimistic outlook for Indigenous justice.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Back to the future for Indigenous youth

    • Brian McCoy
    • 06 July 2009
    4 Comments

    Young people ideally move into adulthood with pride and a sense of generational history. Identity is not just about becoming an individual, but knowing, valuing and embodying one's ancestral past. But moving forwards while looking backwards can be risky.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The Bill of Rights power struggle

    • Jonathan Campton
    • 03 July 2009
    1 Comment

    While day one of the National Human Rights Consultation hearing ended with a growing hope for the rights of the oppressed, day two, dominated by politicians and lawyers, diluted this hope in legalism, fear and falsehoods.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Gallipoli Diggers and the 'forgotten' holocaust

    • Nick Toscano
    • 20 April 2009
    43 Comments

    Although it was a military disaster, the battle of Gallipoli was a defining moment in Australia's history. But that same battle also marked a nation's destruction: a campaign was underway to exterminate the Armenian race.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Obama's victory for African Australians

    • Saeed Saeed
    • 20 January 2009
    6 Comments

    Upon hearing my ambition to become a journalist, elders in my community suggested I adopt a western pen-name to increase my chances of employment. Obama's win goes a long way to short circuiting the negativity in African Australian communities bred by historical grudges and ineffective social services.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Cheap retail at the cost of culture

    • Kirsty Ruddock
    • 25 November 2008
    16 Comments

    Local Moree sportspeople and indigenous community members have a fight on their hands if they're to prevent the construction of a Big W retail store on a culturally significant site. It seems history and culture have no place in the pursuit of economic growth.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Sharing of wisdom under the Boab tree

    • Chris Laming
    • 07 November 2008

    After nearly 40 years living in Indigenous communities, Brian McCoy manages to move through difficult terrain with the sure-footedness of an ancient Aboriginal tracker, and a confidence founded on years of sitting, listening, observing and quietly healing.

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  • MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD

    Learning to teach Aboriginal kids

    • Jonathan Hill
    • 10 September 2008
    5 Comments

    Teachers arriving in remote Aboriginal schools represent merely the latest in a long, transient line. What will separate them from their predecessors is their ability to listen and learn from the people whose land they now live on.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Book of the week

    • John Bartlett
    • 29 August 2008
    1 Comment

    In 2003 Elders of the Ngarrindjeri Nation stood up to the South Australian Governor on traditional lands issues. The same spirit of defiance personifies this chronicle of the stories and aspirations of powerful Ngarrindjeri women.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Caste complicates progress for India's Dalits

    • Peter Hodge
    • 01 February 2008
    1 Comment

    There is a link between improved living conditions of Dalits and increased abuse at the hands of extremist Hindus. With these groups unlikely to back down, further empowerment will come at a cost.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Aboriginal art before it became an industry

    • Rosemary Crumlin
    • 22 January 2008

    At Turkey Creek, George Mung had carved a statue out of a piece of tree, a work of extraordinary beauty. Here it was, sitting on top of a hot-water system. 'You take it,' he said, 'I'll do another one.' (Eureka Street March 1991)

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