Preppers is a deep reading of colonial violence – and a hilarious, must‑watch Aussie TV comedy
Led by a brilliant Blak cast including Nakkiah Lui, Jack Charles and Ursula Yovich, Preppers tackles some big issues while making you laugh out loud.
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A decade of Tarnanthi: how a festival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art creates a new national art history
The 2025 Tarnanthi Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander at the Art Gallery of South Australia is titled Too Deadly.
A Tasmanian Requiem is a musical reckoning, and a pathway to reconciliation
A Tasmanian Requiem brings together Western and Aboriginal voices to confront the violence of the state’s Black War. It shows what a historical reckoning, and reconciliation, might look and sound like.
Noble horses and ‘black monsters’: the politics of colonial compassion
George Hamilton published An Appeal for the Horse in 1866, a defence of animal welfare well ahead of its time. However, his compassion for Aboriginal people was conspicuously lacking.
Noted works: The Black War
Nicholas Clements, The Black War: Fear, Sex and Resistance in Tasmania (2014, University of Queensland Press). In the heat of commemoration of Australians’ involvement in the first world war, it’s timely…
Kidman’s sale marks second wave of South Australian colonisation
The company built by ‘Cattle King’ Sidney Kidman is for sale. He enjoyed good relations with the Indigenous inhabitants, but proper recognition of their rights to their land seems ever more elusive.
Enforcing assimilation, dismantling Aboriginal families: a history of police violence in Australia
Police played a unique role in many settler colonies executing assimilationist policies designed to dismantle First Nations families.
Alice Duncan‑Kemp was an empathetic observer of Mithaka culture, but her legacy is complicated
Alice Duncan-Kemp’s books drew on a childhood in intimate contact with Mithaka people. Historian Tom Griffiths’ book, Alice’s dreaming, reminds us of her work.
Friday essay: ‘killed by Natives’. The stories – and violent reprisals – behind some of Australia’s settler memorials
Across Australia, there are memorials to white people ‘killed by Natives’. But there is a silence about what led to these attacks, or the reprisal massacres that typically followed.
Voice, treaty, truth: compared to other settler nations, Australia is the exception, not the rule
These histories remind us how long First Nations people have waited for political recognition in this country – and that, compared to other former colonial sites, Australia is the exception, not the rule.
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