Category: from so-called ‘auSStralia’
Savagery & Urbanity: Struggles Over Aboriginal Housing, Redfern 1970-1973 by Kathy Lothian
Toward an Effective and Decolonised Action and Solidarity
Moving Blackwards: Black Power and the Aboriginal Tent Embassy by Kathy Lothian
Sorry, About the NT Intervention?
Native Title – Discussion with Uncle Robbie Thorpe (Krauatatungalung) and Aunty Sue Coleman-Hasseldine (Googatha-Mula)
Driving Disunity: The Business Council Against Aboriginal Community by Lindy Nolan
‘The Black Line is Drawn’ Statement by Uncle Kevin Buzzacott and the Sovereign Council of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy
Bring the War Home: Recovering Anti-Imperialism
Radical Media in So-Called ‘auSStralia’
COUNTER-INFO
For Autonomy Destroy Australia – Anonymous Instagram page posting anonymously submitted action communiques and other media from so-called melbourne (@forautonomydestroyaustralia)
Backlash Blogs – The only counter-info website dedicated to the movements on this continent. Where you’ll find anonymously submitted communiques of recent actions, articles, zines et cetera. They also periodically release a zine! (Currently on hiaitus?)
Anti-Everything Action – Reportbacks, essays, and communiques from action on Wurundjeri Country
Death Toll – Documents the current struggle against Toll Holdings in so-called melbourne for its complicity in genocide here and overseas. Posts exposes on Toll and action communiques against it.
Stop Arming Israel Australia – A grassroots collective that posts anonymous communiques of Palestinian solidarity actions in so-called australia (Instagram @stoparmingisrael_aus)
The Colony Will Fall – An instagram page that posts anonymous communiques predominately of anti-colonial direct actions (@the_colony_will_fall)
Anti-Fascist Alerts – Alerts from across so-called melbourne in relation to anti-fascism, demonstrations, and news
(For action announcements and communiques, also see these Instagram accounts: @aka.waca, @disruptwars, @transqueersolidarity, @queerkilljoys)
READ
The Sunday Paper – A newspaper for anti-colonial writing that rejects normalisation, honours the martyrs of every anti-imperialist struggle, and upholds the necessity of resistance. (They also have a podcast)
Radio RATA – Decolonial journalism on the Blak sovereign movement and Pacific Customary Ocean Kingdoms sovereign movement. Produced under Woomera Law. Sample of the first edition HERE. (Instagram @radio__rata)
Koori Web – Uncle Gary Foley’s Aboriginal history archive. Documents decades of Aboriginal resistance and contains many of his essays.
Declassified Australia – A liberal independent journalism platform with reports on Australian militarism, intelligence, and geopolitics
Australian Anarchist Zine Archive – New and historical radical zines and periodicals from across the continent
FTP – A bi-annual report on indigenous, ecological, and anti-capitalist resistance within the territory claimed by the Australian state. It is made up of communiques, posters and media releases published on self-publishing sites (such as indymedia.org.au and disaccords.wordpress.com) while the rest has been culled from the websites of corporate Newspapers and TV stations. (now defunct)
LISTEN
Bunjil’s Fire (3CR 855AM) – Uncle Robbie Thorpe’s historically informed, critical analysis of Aboriginal affairs and the ongoing political movement for land rights, treaty, sovereignty and the cessation of genocide. Featuring the best of blak music. (Wednesdays 11:00am to 12:00pm) See three zines featuring Uncle Robbie Thorpe: here, here, and here.
Yillamin (3CR 855 AM) – Keiran Stewart-Assheton dives deep into Indigenous resistance and global anti-colonial struggles. Featuring frontline activists, it confronts Australia’s identity, challenges power structures, and fuels revolutionary discourse. (Wednesdays 12:00pm to 1:00pm) Check out some of his shows in zine form HERE!
(3CR has a bunch of more (mostly) radical shows, honorable mention to: Radio A and A, A Friday Rave, Balaam Waa, Women on the Line)
Race Matters (Gadigal) – Race Matters is an anti-racist show that explores the values and complexities of race, culture and identity. With a weekly broadcast of in-depth interviews and unique storytelling spanning arts, music, politics, global and local events, and more often unheard in the mainstream and approached with a critical and compassionate lens.
Frontier War Stories – A podcast dedicated to truth-telling about a side of Australia that has been left out of the history books. Each episode Boe will speak with different Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people about research, books and oral histories which document the first 140 years of colonisation.