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2020 Term 3 Black Lives Matter Resources Social Action

BLM Link Library Update

A few recent offerings this Naidoc Week

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The 50 Words Project

The 50 Words project is an interactive online map giving everyone the opportunity to hear Aboriginal languages spoken all across the continent.

You can search to hear language from across the continent – both those spoken every day and those being revitalised by their communities. The ideal tool to give you an introduction to language.


Indigenous Weather Knowledge

The Bureau of Meteorology’s Indigenous Weather Knowledge website is a formal recognition of traditional weather and climate knowledge that has been developed and passed down through countless generations by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. It offers insight into the seasons and environmental indicators known by 16 different language groups across the nation.


A Call to awareness for White Buddhists

“At times like these,” says African American writer Ayesha Ali, “white people, and white institutions, reach out to Black people they barely know or have forgotten about.” In this article in Lion’s Roar she asks white practitioners to reach inside instead and examine their own life and privilege.


10 Things You Should Know About White Privilege

This SBS/NITV article examines the meaning and origins of the concept of White Privilege, starting with Peggy McIntosh’s 1988 essay in which she identified 50 of the daily effects of privilege in her life as a white person living in the U.S.