Moale James

Aug 30, 2024 | abc.net.au | Bobby Macumber |Moale James |Dinah Lewis Boucher

Actress Jemmason Power had just landed a main role in a television production and had reached a peak in her on-screen career. Her social media pages "looked amazing", she was on advertisements and billboards, and people were messaging her and "blowing my ego up to the brim".

Jul 23, 2024 | abc.net.au | Julian Morrow |Kristina Miltiadou |Moale James |Emily Nguyen-Hunt |Bobby Macumber

Koteka Wenda's childhood is full of bittersweet memories and lessons. Her early memories are of her family fleeing West Papua as political-refugees to live in exile in the safety of the United Kingdom. It was in exile where Koteka and her family discovered what it means to grow a community and continue the spreading of their message to "Free West Papua" using their abilities as mucians, educators and living witnesses to being a West Papuan in Indonesia.

Jul 7, 2023 | sbs.com.au | Moale James

This article contains images of Indigenous people who have passed. One week before my marksI look at my bare face in the mirror. Using my finger I trace a line from my forehead to the bridge of my nose, then down my chin and my neck. My name is Moale Antonia Paia James. I am 23 years old, my parents' first successful IVF child and the eldest of 16 grandchildren. Moale means ‘happy celebration’ in Motu, the language of the Indigenous Motu people of Papua New Guinea.