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Good afternoon from #Naarm
Featured in this tweet and the one following are all pieces of street art from Naarm (some legal, some sneaky) that celebrate First Nations Australians. Perhaps some of you recognise where they are from?
Featured in this tweet and the one following are all pieces of street art from Naarm (some legal, some sneaky) that celebrate First Nations Australians. Perhaps some of you recognise where they are from?
The tram one should be familar to most Victorians and is part of @risingmelbourne 2022 First Peoples art trams rising.melbourne/wormhole/2022-… It is called Blak Love and is by Dr Paola Balla (Wemba Wemba-Gunditjmara)
This afternoon I want to start by saying that both illness & lack of internet coverage down in Somers (on Bunurong Country) threw a real spanner in the works for my @WePublicHealth tweeting 😥
Did you know there are acts of protest happening every weekend in #Naarm/#Melbourne in solidarity with the women of #Iran? Yesterday this group, who come from different walks of life in Iran, stood for 10 hours. Their first silent vigil.
#MahsaAmini #WomanLifeFreedom
#MahsaAmini #WomanLifeFreedom
They invited others to stand with them, and in the time I was there, I listened to:
- frustration with the low visibility in Aus of this major intl issue
- observations that the Iranian community is quite small in Aus, and unlike eg NZ, no/few pols with Iranian heritage in govt
- frustration with the low visibility in Aus of this major intl issue
- observations that the Iranian community is quite small in Aus, and unlike eg NZ, no/few pols with Iranian heritage in govt
They also talked to me about:
- frustration at how media coverage is not capturing the extent of the repression these protests are being met with in Iran
- one, visibly shaken, showed me photos texted to her daily, of faces, eyes, bodies ruined by small caliber ammunition
- frustration at how media coverage is not capturing the extent of the repression these protests are being met with in Iran
- one, visibly shaken, showed me photos texted to her daily, of faces, eyes, bodies ruined by small caliber ammunition
We're reporting this week from the @CATSINaM #BackToTheFire conferences from NSW, WA & the ACT: @mariemcinerney will be live tweeting on Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday with stories to come: see our reports so far from the conference series cc @TessRyan1 croakey.org/category/croak…
The @CATSINaM #BackToTheFire series kicked off in April in Cairns on Yirrganydji and Yidinji Country: @Juan1taSherwood spoke on the "strong, political" work of the Muliyan consortium, to decolonise health croakey.org/back-to-the-fi…
The @CATSINaM #BackToTheFire artwork is by Cairns artist Susan Reys, a descendant of the Badtjala people of Fraser Island and a Dharrpa Warra woman. It "encapsulates the forever vibrant rebirthing energy of fire and the living spirit of Indigenous peoples"
