Good afternoon!
A late and short one from me today. I had coffee with an activist friend this morning to make plans.
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-Kate
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Following the CNN in Myanmar debacle, Kirsten Han argues we should reconsider the role of foreign correspondents, especially those who parachute into countries without knowing much about them, their history, or their peoples. I am 100% in agreement with Kirsten.
Wiradjuri/Wailwan woman Teela Reid on the ongoing incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia:
The systemic erasure of Aboriginal lives, languages and law from our own land is the product of a society founded on genocide. Killing Aboriginal people has always been a byproduct of the colonial project; it started with massacres, it persisted with the missionaries, and the remnants of this violent past are manifest in the mass incarceration of Indigenous peoples.
More and more Australian universities are cutting their Asian language teaching programs. Indonesian in particular is suffering.
VICE published Matt Loughrey’s re-coloured photographs of victims of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. Turns out they were not only coloured but also edited so that the victims were smiling. Very weird and inappropriate.
Listen
7am Podcast spoke to academic Gary Foley about what led to the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in 1991.
Al Jazeera’s The Take spoke to Hoda Katebi, who established Blue Tin Production, about the anti-fast fashion movement.
Eat (drink, more accurately)
Margaret River Distilling Co.’s Giniversity gins are possibly my favourite Australian gins right now. Their London dry is fabulous, their botanical is phenomenal, and now I’ve tried their Australian native botanical gin. It uses emu plum, quandong, and a bunch of other native plants, and tastes great even just with soda and a squeeze of lime.