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While most of us struggle to get two kids off to school each day, the Hartas family in Ipswich work as a finely tuned machine to run their household of 13 - and they make it look easy.
When Bianca Templar received death threats while organising the recent Black Lives Matter Vigil in Launceston, from people claiming to the be from white supremacist hate group the Ku Klux Klan, it served to reinforce her resolve.
almost 100,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander have been directly impacted by the Black Summer bushfires, says an expert who argues First Nations people have been ignored and often relegated to an historical footnote in previous fire inquiries.
'Rarriwuy Hick is a Yolngu woman from the Wangurri clan in North East Arnhem land. Born in Sydney, she grew up with both feet firmly planted in two worlds.'
Within 48 hours of saying there had never been slavery in Australia, Scott Morrison did a backflip - after the spin doctors got to him, saying you can't deny slavery in this country.
The Black Lives Matters protests here in Australia and across the world, are sounding cries of anguish and anger about the unrelenting impact of racism on our lives.
If you have ever been to a rally and march in Australia by and for blackfullas, you would have heard 'always was, always will be.' It is the theme for the 2020 NAIDOC week but was a catch cry borne of the land rights movement - a movement that continues.
Right now, my worlds have collided with COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter. The protests are drawing attention to what Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have always known - that the intersection between racism and adverse life outcomes is real.