Cathy Eatock

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    We need to stand up against genocide

    Australia has previously blindly followed the United States into the war on terror and, as Cathy Eatock writes, now the Anthony Albanese government has, astoundingly, followed Scott Morrison into AUKUS, without a public discussion.

  • Pilger's Utopia a devastating expose of Australian apartheid

    Utopia Directed by John Pilger http://utopiajohnpilger.co.uk The latest documentary by Emmy and BAFTA award winning film maker and journalist, John Pilger, contrasts two very different worlds: one of white aspiration on Sydney’s northern beaches, and the other the Aboriginal community in the ironically named town of Utopia, located in central Australia. The town has been assessed as the most disadvantaged and poorest community in Australia. The distinction could not be more stark.

  • Self-determination is the key to ending violence

    An article by journalist Elizabeth Farrelly, published in the Sydney Morning Herald on April 11 titled “Protecting a cultural right to abuse”, starts by posing the question, “At what point does autonomy slide into apartheid?”

  • Hugo Chavez: his legacy will continue

    As an Aboriginal woman, from the Kairi and Gubbi Gubbi nations of central Queensland, I identify with oppressed people around the world and I see our liberation as tied closely to that of other indigenous and subjugated peoples. In September last year, I had the great pleasure of participating in the Australian Venezuelan Solidarity Network Brigade.

  • End violence against Aboriginal women

    This was a speech given to a One Billion Rising event in Sydney on February 14. *** I'd like to welcome you all here tonight. I'm a Kairi and Badjula woman, so I can't do a welcome to country, but I can do an acknowledgement. So I'd like to acknowledge that this celebration is taking place on the stolen lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. The Gadigal people were the first to endure the impact of invasion and as a result their communities were decimated. Invasion was a violent process, though history has tried to cleanse it was with the word colonisation.