Ella Archibald-Binge

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Ella Archibald-Binge

In the tiny community of Toomelah, everyone knows the nurse with the red lipstick. Since she was 16, Ann-Marie Thomas has rarely left home without it. “I just love red,” she says. “It cheers me up.”Her signature look makes her easy to spot in the remote town in north-western New South Wales, where she is the only full-time nurse for a population of about 250 Aboriginal people. It’s a role that extends well beyond the community’s medical needs.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Ella Archibald-Binge

In the final days of the election campaign, the opposition leader, Peter Dutton, has doubled-down on his comments that welcome to country ceremonies are “overdone”At a press conference on Monday, he listed Qantas’ move to acknowledge traditional owners on flights as an example of unnecessary recognition. But his comments, and much of the subsequent reporting of them, did not always make the important distinction between a welcome to, and acknowledgement of, country.

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Ella Archibald-Binge

On a remote island off the tip of the Northern Territory, Paulina Puruntatameri is studying candidate leaflets for the battleground seat of Lingiari. The artist and cultural leader says her vote is up for grabs, even as she lines up outside the council boardroom turned polling booth for the 250-odd voters in the community of Pirlangimpi in the Tiwi Islands.

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Ella Archibald-Binge

The West Australian city of Bunbury, in the conservative Liberal stronghold of Forrest, isn’t known for its radical activism. But when the local golf club hosted the outspoken Northern Territory senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price for an LNP campaign event last week, dozens of Aboriginal people turned up to protest. Charmaine Williams, a Noongar woman, was among them. “We are trying, as a community, to build relationships with everybody that lives here,” she told Guardian Australia.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Ella Archibald-Binge

When Ena Sam emerged from a year-long stay in hospital, recovering from a severe kidney infection that led to both her hands and feet being amputated, her family was understandably concerned about her welfare. “I said ‘There’s nothing wrong with me’,” she recalls.