Powerful truth telling from Marianne Headland Mackay

Please support the family of Kumanjayi Nungarrayi Dixon - any little bit helps. Ms Dixon’s family need funds to attend the trial of those accused of killing her. Please support! “She’s not no one” gofundme.com/f/shes-not-no-…

Pictured here with my Uncle Paul and niece Taya girl. In 1979, the Coe Vs Commonwealth case challenged the High Court on the basis of an unceded Aboriginal sovereignty over these lands now called Australia. Proud to call him my Elder and Teacher. #ForOurElders

NAIDOC was born from a protest and fighting for rights, self-determination and freedom. Our Elders, the revolutionary freedom fighters, the activists, trailblazers and changemakers had optimism and determination - that still inspires us today. For Our Elders 🖤💛❤️#NAIDOC2023

As you know I'm not a huge fan of the commercialisation of NAIDOC but to mark the start I'm sharing part of my talk.

This 4th of July, it's high time we recognize that the US exists on stolen Indigenous land and commit to returning it. Learn more and take action now: benjerrys.co/46vrYu3

A nation cannot claim to have birthed freedom when it has, from its inception practiced genocide, land theft, and enslavement as nation-building strategies. It cannot be the epitome of freedom when it has enshrined anti-Black and anti-Indigenous policies into its very foundation.

I was kinda hoping the Minister might be working to stop the system killing us, not putting the onus on us Seriously, this is all that is wrong with the Voice. It pathologises us as the problem. We aren’t “taking our lives” we’re being actively and systematically terminated

CONGRATULATIONS Ruby Wharton, Community Person of the Year - 2023 Triple A Community NAIDOC Ball. 🎉🖤💛❤️🎉 This year Triple A celebrates 30 years! Tonight’s event celebrates black excellence, supported by Triple A & the Meanjin Community. #NAIDOC #NAIDOCWeek #ForOurElders

Epic victory by Bargarla people, defeating the Albanese government’s attempt to impose a nuclear waste dump on their lands with no consent. For decades the Australian state has tried to dump nuke waste on Aboriginal land and been defeated every time! abc.net.au/news/2023-07-1…

✊🏿IN Episode 4 of DECOLONISE, Jaja yarns with Boe Spearim. A proud Gamilaraay and Kooma brother and the voice behind the Frontier War Stories -revealing the truth of the traumas that are still living out on our lands. LISTEN NOW: koorimail.com/podcast/yarnin… #KooriMail #Decolonise

Proud Bundjalung Widubul-Wiabul Woman, Human Rights advocate, Lawyer, author, and scholar demands more than than empty rhetoric and lip service [the crumbs] in her second piece for IX. “I don’t want words anymore… I don’t want to just be ‘heard’…

Sharing in this fantastic news and to check out ‘Chapter 12’ written by this lil blackfulla from the mish! Well done to the editors on such a deadly volume of Indigenous brilliance! @BronwynCarlson Prof Sandy O'Sullivan Prof Tristan Kennedy and Madi Day

Colonisers will colonise! A post-referendum reflection from a Sovereign ‘No’ Blackfulla by Lynda-June Coe Lynda-June Coe journalofglobalindigeneity.com/post/2765-colo…