if you're an australian who has opened your eyes & is now thinking "what can i do", start with listening to indigenous people, educating yourself, decolonising ur ideology, donating, making long term plans to keep fighting & supporting (compiling links under this thread)
australian ignorance continues to oppress indigenous lives. our system was founded on genocide & is embedded with racism, our government doesn't do shit with awful schemes that only further discriminate against indigenous populations, ruin land & strip away autonomy.
indigenous deaths in custody database (it's worthwhile reading the related articles at the bottom too) https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/ng-interactive/2018/aug/28/deaths-inside-indigenous-australian-deaths-in-custody
keeping yourself in the know through indigenous-led journalism & following indigenous activists makes u able to have a clearer picture when mass media is skewing a story to serve a white narrative https://twitter.com/sallyrugg/status/1266544831985094656?s=20
this is something i got linked to at uni that remains with me to this day (it is by a white woman but i think is really helpful in understanding how your consciousness is part of a bigger colonial project, take some time to watch the video) https://hyperallergic.com/505431/some-of-the-mechanics-of-critique-lisi-raskin/
stan grant speech:
adam goodes documentary "the australian dream": https://iview.abc.net.au/show/australian-dream
adam goodes documentary "the australian dream": https://iview.abc.net.au/show/australian-dream
in my blood it runs (documentary): https://inmyblooditruns.com/
+ ways you can take action to raise the age of criminal responsibility & donate to indigenous-led organisations https://inmyblooditruns.com/takeaction
+ ways you can take action to raise the age of criminal responsibility & donate to indigenous-led organisations https://inmyblooditruns.com/takeaction
also take some time to also learn about australia's erased history, shit they fail to teach you in school, shit they try to keep you numb from, learn to identify the racist historical information that was written by white colonisers. talk to your friends, your peers, your kids.
+ i'm going to clarify i'm not an indigenous person, i'm a korean immigrant living on Dharug land. indigenous sovereignty has never been ceded. will add more to the thread, please feel free to also add!