Holding White Australia to Account

Inala Cooper is a Yawuru woman with German and Irish heritage. In Marrul: Aboriginal Identity and the Fight for Rights, she shares a deeply personal and moving account of the impact of colonisation on her family. In this session, Cooper explores what self-determination means for First Nations people and why reconciliation is a vital step in our understanding of the forces that shaped Australia today.

Supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund.

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Inala Cooper is a Yawuru woman and the Director of Murrup Barak Centre at the University of Melbourne. Her book Marrul: Aboriginal Identity and the Fight for Rights was published in 2022.

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Amy McQuire is a Darumbal and South Sea Islander writer with has 17 years’ experience working as a journalist across Indigenous and independent media. She was previously editor of National Indigenous Times and Tracker Magazine, a broadcaster at 98.9FM, a journalist at New Matilda, and Indigenous Affairs Correspondent at BuzzFeed News Australia. Her first children's book, Day Break, was published in 2022, and her first non-fiction book, Black Witness, will be published in 2023.

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