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Celeste Liddle

The Guardian

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The Australia Day conversation is boring – but 26 January marks an incredible history of Indigenous resistance

The Australia Day conversation is boring – but 26 January marks an incredible history of Indigenous resistance
23.01.2025 20

The Guardian

Celeste Liddle

If Australians knew the whole truth about Indigenous history, Lidia Thorpe’s royal outburst would not have been a shock

Lidia Thorpe is not one to adhere to respectability politics. She may work in the major house of respectability politics, but as she has been clear...

23.10.2024 100

The Guardian

Celeste Liddle

I don’t want to revisit the time and the fallout of the voice referendum. But we cannot maintain the status quo

A year has passed since the ill-fated voice referendum. In that time, and indeed in the time leading up to the referendum itself, I repeatedly...

13.10.2024 10

The Guardian

Celeste Liddle

For a little bit there, I dared to hope. But Dylan Voller’s plea shows that nothing has been learned from Don Dale

It was the plea from a former child prisoner that hit me. On seeing his picture flooding the media once again last week, Dylan Voller wrote on...

07.09.2024 10

The Guardian

Celeste Liddle

New Zealand’s conservative turn sounds chillingly familiar to Indigenous Australians. Here’s why the Māori fight is our fight

By sheer chance, I was on a marae in the North Island of Aotearoa when the New Zealand election results were coming through last year. I was...

07.08.2024 30

The Guardian

Celeste Liddle