Ella Archibald-Binge

4 days ago | theguardian.com | Ella Archibald-Binge

The supermarket is silent except for wails of grief. A small procession makes a slow pilgrimage down aisle four of the Alice Springs Coles, where their loved one – a 24-year-old Warlpiri man with a disability – lost consciousness after being restrained by police. He later died in hospital. Outside, the man’s grandfather, Warlpiri elder Ned Hargraves, addressed a crowd of hundreds from his mobility scooter. “Enough is enough,” he said on Friday.

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

A fortnight before the central Australian town of Yuendumu was due to hear the findings of a long-running inquest into the fatal police shooting of Kumanjayi Walker, the community has been plunged into fresh grief. A 24-year-old Warlpiri man from Yuendumu died on Tuesday afternoon after being restrained by police at an Alice Springs supermarket. Samara Fernandez-Brown, a Warlpiri woman and cousin of Kumanjayi Walker, posted about the incident on Instagram on Tuesday night.

2 weeks 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.

1 month 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.