Ella Archibald-Binge

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

When more than 100 First Nations leaders gathered for a major summit in Brisbane this week, they set out to give a voice to the young people who bear the brunt of the state’s punitive policies but are largely absent from the debate about them. Jerome Wano, a Wakka Wakka and Ngāti Tūwharetoa man, was among dozens of participants who shared their thoughts on how to chart a path towards a better future for Indigenous children.

1 month 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 months 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.

2 months 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.

2 months 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.