What a week to be studying Understanding Indigenous Education and Perspectives for my masters.
I have been reading on stolen generations, the Northern Territory Intervention, the Bringing them Home Report and much more, as well as watching powerful documentaries on Gurrumul and Rachel Perkins, The First Australians.
One of the questions we have been looking at are what are the barriers to change and what are the windows to change for Australia’s First Nations people.
Then, in the middle of it all, Racism rears its ugly insidious prevalence again.
So what are the windows? The windows of seeing what happens now that something like the situation for Cassius and his family.
Going back to study and being a writer, I will be thinking an reading about what education, and teachers and schools, can do to challenge and change such things, and also how much the WHOLE community need to work…
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Ripple Poetry 