July 30, 2020
By Pamela Nathan When it comes to locking up children as young as 10 years old, Australia stands alone. And on Monday 27 July, a national […]
March 27, 2019
“Many thanks for your follow up after Thursday’s two successful workshops. That night many Yiramalay staff shared with me how important it was for them and […]
March 21, 2019
Image by Valentin Antonucci from Pexels By Pamela Nathan Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. It is a poignant end to a week that […]
October 28, 2016
Australia has not been a country of master-slave, but a servile consciousness has been perpetuated by the declaration of Terra Nullius, of needing to grant citizenship and land rights and having corralled people into settlements, curfews and 'half-caste' regulations. Gary’s Letter to Antoinette is a very moving letter of remembrance, of deep apology and a wish to repair damage done from a man who grew up in Cape Town, South Africa.
July 28, 2016
This bound, shackled person is not a terror suspect or political prisoner in some foreign land renowned for torture and abuses of human rights. The person is not even a man. He is a child. He is an Indigenous child. In Australia.
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 […]
February 13, 2015
Thank you to the Healing Foundation for the Public Forum and Webinar they produced today, titled ‘Healing Our Stolen Generations’. A passionate, emotional and informative account of stolen […]
February 4, 2015
By Pamela Nathan The Old Time Past has a Living Presence – Resistance, Withdrawal and/or Timeless and Transforming Endurance? It was with great interest and relief […]
December 1, 2014
By Pamela Nathan Re: ‘The fertile space between us’, by Kieran Finnane, published in The Alice Springs News Online, 28 November 2014 My friend and colleague […]
October 9, 2014
By Pamela Nathan With Mental Health Week and the ABC’s terrific ‘Mental As’ initiative, the spotlight is shining brightly on all aspects of mental health – […]
September 26, 2014
By Pamela Nathan In support of Noel Pearson’s plea for the importance of recognition, responsibility, truth, united reconciliation and race Re ‘Time to bring us into […]
August 19, 2014
By Pamela Nathan Re: ‘Justice system failing Indigenous women’, published in ‘The Age‘ editorial, 17 August 2014 A timely article! Aboriginal women are mothers and grandmothers and […]