September 28, 2015
Keep up with our latest news via CASSE's Aboriginal Australian Relations Program Newsletter, Issue 6 - September 2015. Click here to view online
September 16, 2015
This 'Letter to the Editor' by Pamela Nathan was published in 'The Age' on Friday 11 September 2015. It related to the article, 'Killer had been ranked as having high chance of reoffending by parole officer', by Adam Cooper, published in 'The Age', 8 September 2015. Pamela's letter relates to the high likelihood of perpetrators of violent crimes reoffending.
August 31, 2015
Fear locks you in callipers. It likes to pinion you, and clutches at your throat and chest in a vice-like grip. You can lose your grip. It is icy, and can land you on a precarious goat ledge on the side of a mountain freezing you to the spot. Fear likes to snowball and envelop in galvanising speed.
If you can unlock the frozen fear you can try anything! With no fear you can climb mountains and ski down them, too!
Read Pamela Nathan's psychoanaytic insights into FEAR.
August 24, 2015
By Pamela Nathan As the Prime Minister immerses himself in his week long visit to the remote community of Murray Island in the Torres Strait, it […]
August 17, 2015
By Pamela Nathan Re: ‘Pintubi man Gene Gibson dealt rough justice’, by Victoria Laurie, Paige Taylor, published in ‘The Weekend Australian‘, 15 August 2105. The Weekend Australian’s […]
August 12, 2015
In his opinion piece pertaining to indigenous constitutional conventions, published in 'The Australian', Wesley Aird states: "It is difficult to see how an indigenous-only process could work, given there is no way of knowing who would be eligible to participate. In any case, a referendum ought to be for all Australians."
Pamela Nathan comments that Aird's arguments against indigenous constitutional conventions are a sleight of hand. If the process in the lead up to the referendum can be about recognition, consultation, discussion and the chance to have a voice and to be heard, maybe then it can also offer hope for reconciliation.
August 6, 2015
By Pamela Nathan The psychology of racism….. “You’re a mad, black bastard!” Well I have news for you! You think deep down you’re the mad, black […]
August 5, 2015
A one-sided leadership is a dead end. A one-sided recognition is no recognition at all for all Australians. Are we a Nobody’s Land or can we be a Land of mutually Recognised Peoples?
Pamela Nathan on meaningful Indigenous input into Constitutional reform.
July 1, 2015
Shame’s power can be deadly. It can cripple us and make us shrink from life’s possibilities. So what can we do about shame?
Pamela Nathan's new psychoanalytic series, 'changing minds, saving lives', takes simple gems from the psychoanalytic dreamtime that may become tools for living....
June 2, 2015
By Pamela Nathan Re: ‘Racist constitution does not reflect who we are‘, by Professor Mick Dodson, published in ‘The Age’, May 27, 2015 and ‘Constitutional referendum: […]
May 25, 2015
I’m writing to ask for your help in supporting a vital, innovative program that empowers Indigenous men to fulfil their potential, and foster the next generation’s […]
May 15, 2015
By Pamela Nathan Re: ‘Four Corners’ fishbowl journalism does more damage to Aboriginal people’, By Amy McQuire, Opinion piece in New Matilda, May 12th, 2015. In […]