Cirrus@Austlit

Gwenda Stanley is like a big sister to a tot of us Gomeroi mob and she never gets the accolades or credit she deserves. but rest assured she is a strong heartbeat for the Gomeroi nation and there are literally thousands of Gomeroi young people she has helped mentor, leach and educate and we are forever in her debt. She gives us strength because she does what she does best: She leads from the front. 
 

'Yorta Yorta soprano and composer Deborah Cheetham adores Christmas.

'Yuin woman Jorjia Gillis has been awarded the 2020 Balnaves Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Fellowship. A S25.000 paid residency, the Balnaves Foundation Fellowship gives the fellow the opportunity to work at BeIvolr, in Sydney. as a resident artist to create a work for the stage.' 

When Chenoa Deernal found out she had been cast in Sydney's Belviour Street Theatre Company's newest play. she wondered d she might lust be Cursed. Chenoa is a Thlthaarr Warra (Guugu Yandhar) and Kaano., (Hopevale and Coen Mum) woman who grew up in tar north Queensland near the ninny town of Cape Flattery.

When I think about the term Justice. I cannot help but think about how powerfully devastating it is to be marching with your people in protest against yet another injustice faced by our people and hear "there is no Justice. there is just us" and know that statement is so disturbingly 
true.