Black Lives Matter resources
1. BLM in Australia & Law Reform
(A) BLM in Australia
Webinars:
- ‘Black Lives Matter’ Melbourne Law School 16 July 2020
- Eddie Cullibo, Amy McQuire, George Newhouse, Amanda Porter, Alison Whittaker
- ‘Black Lives Matter: A Roadmap for Policing & Justice Reform in Australia’ Redfern Legal Centre, National Justice Project, UTS Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research, Aboriginal Legal Service NSW/ACT, 23 July 2020
- Lindon Coombes, Samantha Lee, Christopher Cunneen, Karly Warner, Thalia Anthony, George Newhouse, facilitated by Larissa Behrendt
- ‘Blak Lives Matter’ UTS 30 June 2020
- The Hon. Linda Burney MP, Alison Whittaker, Thalia Anthony, Facilitated by The Hon. Verity Firth
- ‘Indigenous Incarceration and the Northern Territory’ Law Council of Australia Panel Discussion 20 August 2020
- Mick Gooda, Olga Havnen and David Woodroffe, Moderated by Pauline Wright
Podcasts/Radio Programs:
- Co-Hosts Amy McQuire and Martin Hodgson, Curtain The Podcast, Episode 68: BlackLivesMatter and Black Deaths in Custody Special - June 4, 2020
- ABC Radio, Speaking Out, hosted by Larissa Behrendt (several recent episodes on BLM)
- ‘Different soil, same story: Black Lives Matter’ RegNet ANU Dr Virginia Marshall - July 28, 2020
Videos:
- Hard Truths, Q&A, 8 June 2020 Episode
- Panellists: Andrew Bragg Jim Chalmers, Nakkiah Lui, Nyadol Nyuon, and Meyne Wyatt
- Black Lives Matter, The Point, NITV 3 June 2020
- ‘I can’t breathe’ Four Corners, ABC 13 July 2020
- Stan Grant, ‘Black Like Me’ Four Corners article 13 july 2020 with video links embedded
Online articles:
- Thalia Anthony, ‘Instead of demonising Black Lives Matter protesters, leaders must act on their calls for racial justice’ The Conversation July 28, 2020
- Alison Whittaker, ‘Despite 432 Indigenous deaths in custody since 1991, no one has ever been convicted. Racist silence and complicity are to blame’ The Conversation June 3, 2020
- Amy McQuire, ‘We Must Bear Witness to Black Deaths in Our Own Country’ Canberra Times May 31, 2020
- Marcia Langton, ‘Why the Black Lives Matter Protests must continue: an urgent appeal by Marcia Langton’ The Conversation August 5, 2020
- Jude McCulloch, ‘Racism, urban combat, and police militarisation in response to Black Lives Matter protests’ Monash University Lens 16 June 2020
- Chris Cunneen, ‘Defunding the police could bring positive change in Australia. These communities are showing the way’ The Conversation 10 June 2020
- Lynda-June Coe for Indigenous X ‘This is black liberation in Australia - the time is here to be on the right side of history’ The Guardian 8 June 2020
- The Guardian Database of Indigenous Deaths in Custody: ‘Deaths Inside: Indigenous Deaths in Custody 2020’
Journal articles:
Reports:
(B) The Uluru Statement from the Heart
Primary source:
Online articles:
- Gabrielle Appleby, ‘A worthwhile project: why two chief justices support the Voice to parliament and why that matters’- The Conversation, Gabrielle Appleby 1 August 2019
- Megan Davis, ‘The Long Road to Uluru: Walking together - truth before justice’ Griffith Review 2018
- Megan Davis, ‘Some Say A Voice to Parliament is Toothless. But together our voices are powerful.’ The Guardian 13 August 2020
Books:
- Thomas Mayor, ‘Finding the heart of the nation: the journey of the Uluru Statement towards voice, treaty and truth’ 2019
Journal articles:
- Kim Rubenstein, ‘Power, Control and Citizenship: The Uluru Statement from the heart as Active Citizenship’ Bond Law Review 2018
- Eddie Synot, ‘The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70: Indigenous rights and the Uluru Statement from the Heart’ Australian Journal of International Affairs Vol. 73: 4, 2019 pp 320-325
- Anna Yeatman, ‘Receiving the final report of the referendum council: A challenge in public law’ Australian Journal of Public Administration 77:1, 2018
- Patrick McCabe, ‘An Australian Indigenous common law right to participate in decision-making’ Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal 20:1, 2020
- Gabrielle Appleby and Megan Davis, ‘The Uluru Statement and the Promises of Truth’ Australian Historical Studies 49:4, 2018
Podcasts:
Reports:
Videos:
- Discussing an Indigenous Voice to Parliament - The Drum (5 August 2019)
- The Indigenous Voice- Q&A (ABC) episode
- The Uluru Statement from the Heart and its pedagogical implications - Professor Megan Davis
(C) General resources: Indigenous & Race Issues in Australia
Lecture Recordings:
- ‘National Reconciliation Week: In This Together’ Professor Ian Anderson, Azure Hermes and Dr Virginia Marshall May 28, 2020
- 2019 ANU Reconciliation Week Lecture: Who is Australia? Professor Tony Dreise May 28, 2020
- 2018 ANU Reconciliation Lecture: Reconciliation, Treaty Making and Nation Building 28 February 2018 - Peter Yu
- ANU Mabo Commemoration Oration: Senator Patrick Dodson, 16 June 2017
Podcasts:
Videos and films:
- ABC, ‘'This is not about reconciliation, this is about reckoning with our past': Teela Reid | 7.30 - February 2020
- 2019 Boyer Lectures: The End of Silence
- 1. The genesis of the Uluru Statement, 2.With the consent of the Natives, 3. Makaratta
- The Australian Dream
- In My Blood It Runs
Online articles:
- Irene Watson, ‘Kaldowinyeri-Munaintya-In the Beginning’ Flinders Journal of Law Reform 2000
- Sarah Maddison, ‘White Australia Can’t solve black problems. White Australia is the problem.’ The Guardian 7 April 2019
- ANU, ‘Three in four people hold negative view of Indigenous people’
- Isabella Higgins, ‘Closing the Gap promises the big change for Indigenous youth. Trei and Karlie hope it improves the issues they faced’ ABC 1 August 2020
- Alexis Moran, ‘How to listen and learn from Indigenous children in order to help’ ABC 6 July 2020
- Asmi Wood, ‘Why Australia won’t recognise Indigenous customary law’ The Conversation 10 June, 2016
Books:
- Ambelin Kwaymullina, ‘Living on Stolen Land’ 2020
- Ambelin Kwaymullina in Conversation with Teela Reid, ‘Living on Stolen Land’ GleeBooks & Blackfulla Bookclub July 14 2020 Webinar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDceCazXDjI
- Jack Charles, with Namila Benson, ‘Jack Charles Born-again Blakfella’ 2019
- Stan Grant, ‘Talking to My Country’ 2017
- Anita Heiss, ‘Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia’ 2018
- Bruce Pascoe, ‘Dark Emu’ 2018
- Don Weatherburn, ‘Arresting Incarceration: Pathways Out of Indigenous Imprisonment’ 2014
- Aileen Moreton-Robinson, ‘Whitening Race: Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism’ 2004
- Kevin Gilbert, ‘Because a white man’ll never do it’ 1973
- Larissa Behrendt et al, ‘Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Relations’ 2nd edition 2018
- Bruce Elder, ‘Blood on the Wattle: Massacres and Maltreatment of Aboriginal Australians since 1788’ 3rd edition 2003
- Aileen Moreton-Robinson, ‘The White Possessive: Property, Power and Indigenous Sovereignty’ Indigenous Americas 2015
- Martin Nakata, ‘Disciplining the Savages: Savaging the Disciplines’ 2007
Journal articles:
- Siddharth Shirodkar, ‘Bias against Indigenous Australians: Implicit association test results for Australia’ Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues Vol. 22:3-4 December 2019: 3-34
- Thalia Anthony, Lorana Bartels and Anthony Hopkins, ‘Lessons Lost in Sentencing: Welding Individualised Justice to Indigenous Justice’ Melbourne University Law Review 2016
- Mary Spiers Williams, ‘Justice Reinvestment: The Cost Benefits for Trusting and Supporting Indigenous People to Mediate their Troubles’ (2016) 8(22) Indigenous Law Bulletin 21
- Mary Spiers Williams, ‘Innervating Colonialism: Exploring the Retraction of Indigenous Rights Through Two Sentencing Provisions’ Australian Feminist Law Journal (2018) (44:2) 203
Reports:
2. Positionality
(A) Resources for Non-Indigenous Australians
Online articles:
- Teela Reid, ‘2020: The year of reckoning, not reconciliation: It’s time to show up’ Griffith Review 4 February 2020
- Summer May Finlay, ‘Where do you fit? Tokenistic, ally or accomplice?’ UoW Media June 1 2020
- Originally published as part of article in Croakey: https://www.croakey.org/where-do-you-fit-tokenistic-ally-or-accomplice/ May 27, 2020
- Angelica Ojinnaka, ‘As Black Lives Matter protests continue in Australia, so does racism. Here’s how you can help’ SBS 28 July 2020
- Brownyn Fredericks, Debbie Bargallie and Brownyn Carlson, ‘“Nothing about us, without us”: performative allyship and telling silences’ Croakey 1 July 2020
- Luke Pearson, ‘Debunking: You can’t talk about violence in Aboriginal communities’
- Tahnee Jash, ‘How to learn from Indigenous People about the Black Lives Matter movement in Australia’ ABC June 22, 2020
- Judy Harrison, ‘Conditions of Observability’ ANU School of Legal Practice, 15 September 2017
Books:
- Aileen Moreton-Robinson, ‘Talkin’ Up to The White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism’ 2000, 20th Anniversary Edition 2020
- Barry Judd, ‘From Paris to Papunya’ in ‘Ngapartji Ngpartji: In turn in turn: Ego-histoire, Europe and Indigenous Australia’ Edited by Vanessa Castejon, Anna Cole, Oliver Haag and Karen Hughes, published 2014 by ANU Press
Journal articles:
- Alexis Wright, ‘What Happens When You Tell Somebody Else’s Story?‘ (2018) 15(2) Meanjin Quarterly 136
- Ambelin Kwaymullina, ‘Research, Ethics and Indigenous Peoples: An Australian Indigenous perspective on three threshold considerations for respectful engagement’ AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples 2016
- Angela Dew, Elizabeth McEntyre and Priya Vaughan, ‘Taking the Research Journey Together: The Insider and Outside Experiences of Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Researchers’ 2019
- Gawaian Bodkin-Andrews and Bronwyn Carlson, ‘The legacy of racism and Indigenous Australian identity with education’ November 2014
- Allan Ardill, ‘Non-Indigenous People Writing about Indigenous People: Colonisation in Practice’, Alternative Law Journal, vol.37, no.2 2012
- Steve Kinnane, Judy Harrison and Isabelle Reinecke, ‘Finger money: The black and white of stolen wages’ Griffith Review (2015) 47, 49
Resources on terminology:
- These are guides intended for media (see here), however useful to the public as well
- Flinders University, “Appropriate Terminology, Indigenous Australian Peoples”
- Narragunnawali terminology guide
Blogs:
- https://drtessryan.com/blog by Dr Tess Ryan, Canberra based academia with Aboriginal/Irish/Chinese background
(B) International BLM Resources (Outside of Australia)
Books
- Ibram Kendi, ‘How to Be an Anti-Racist’ 2019
- Ibram Kendi, ‘Stamped from the Beginning’ 2016
- Asha Bandele and Patrisse Cullors, ‘When They Call You a Terrorist’ 2018
- Mikki Kendall, ‘Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot’ 2020
- Derald Wing Sue, ‘Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence’ 2015
- Khalil Gibran Muhammed, ‘The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and The Making of Modern Urban America’ 2010
- Bryan Stevenson, ‘Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption’ 2014
- Michelle Alexander, ‘The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness’ 2010
- Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, ‘From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation’ 2016
- Richard Rothstein, ‘The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America’ 2017
- Carol Anderson, ‘One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy’ 2018
Journal articles:
- Kimberlé Crenshaw, ‘Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics’ University of Chicago Legal Forum: Vol. 1989, Article 8
- Jennifer Hendry, Melissa L. Tatum, Miriam Jorgensen and Deirdre Howard-Wagner, ‘Indigenous Justice: New Tools, Approaches, and Spaces’ Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies 2018
- Moya Bailey & Trudy, ‘On misogynoir: citation, erasure, and plagiarism’ Feminist Media Studies 18(4) 2018
Podcasts:
Substance abuse and recovery:
- The Summit Wellness Group Written and curated by women of colour, this guide features 61 mental health and substance use resources for the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) community.
- Detox Local An extensive list of mental health and substance use resources specifically for the AAPI (American Asian and Pacific Islander) community.
- Live Another Day A dual diagnosis guide written specifically for African-Americans that addresses the complex issues surrounding mental illness and substance abuse.
Recommended areas of literature to review:
- Critical Race Theory