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HUMAN AFFAIRS

AMY CHENG

A consortium of more than 117 organisations has come together to urge the NSW premier to put into force the Modern Slavery Act by January next year.

In a letter addressed to Gladys Berejiklian, the consortium, which also included academics, lawyers and community and faith leaders, expressed its concerns over further delays in implementing the Act. Carolyn Kitto, co-director of Be Slavery Free, a global coalition working to prevent, abolish and disrupt modern slavery, said there are more slaves in the world today than any other time in history. “Every day, 25,200 people, as a guestimate, enter slavery. So, every day that this is delayed, NSW, which is the seventh largest economy in Asia, loses an opportunity to set a standard about ending modern slavery.” Ms Kitto, one of the signatories of the letter, believes the Act, if put into force, will help end slavery in the supply chain. “It’s estimated that 70 to 80 per cent of slavery is actually in the supply chain of the goods that we buy, and we’ve been an importing country,” she said. Image: Sam McNair “Our manufacturing is largely offshore, and so asking vulnerable, because they’re deceived, tricked or coerced into businesses to check their supply women, because they’re children, what they’re doing,” Ms Kitto said. chains sends a message that we because they’re poor and because “Their freedom is withheld in are not only interested in profit, they’re desperate,” Ms Kitto said. some kind of way so they can’t we’re also interested in people.” “So, any opportunity, people leave … and the third thing is The Act will make it riskier are more likely to take a job that they’re exploited for the and less lucrative to use that has less protection and benefit of another person.” forms of modern slavery, standards, and therefore they’re There is no globally agreed according to Ms Kitto. more open to exploitation.” definition of modern slavery. The Covid-19 pandemic has People are also more desperate According to Be Slavery Free, there brought about additional concerns. during these times, she said. are eight crimes associated with The restrictions put in place have “If children can’t go to school, it, including human trafficking, made it easier for businesses families may be more tempted slavery, servitude, forced to hide things, she said. to put them into work.” labour, debt bondage, deceptive For example, a factory could Sometimes, modern slavery recruitment, forced marriage and Carolyn Kitto (second left) from Be Slavery Free delivers a letter urging the premier to implement the Modern refuse to let its workers leave is not detected because it’s been worst forms of child labour. Slavery Act by January 2020. Photo: Supplied the building to protect them referred to as something else, such The NSW Modern Slavery Act and others from getting the as wage theft or sex with a minor was passed in 2018 but is yet to be requested a meeting on four The letter was delivered to the virus. However, under normal rather than forced marriage. put into force. It is unclear to Ms occasions and it’s been denied. premier on July 20; there has been conditions, restricting people’s “Modern slavery is an umbrella Kitto what the cause of delay is. I’ve never had this experience no response yet. Ms Kitto said the movements would be considered term which covers a range of “It seems to us that everything in my life before because it’s premier has 28 days to respond. S an act of modern slavery. crimes … These crimes have three in the democratic process and part of a politician’s job to “People who end up in slavery things in common: the person who more has been done,” she said. meet with members of their To support the campaign, see are there because they’re ends up in that situation has been “My local member, I’ve electorate, and they’re not.” www.beslaveryfree.com/nsw-msa 2 NEWS SEPTEMBER 2020

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MANAGING EDITOR outcomes in Marjorie Lewis-Jones ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR Andrew Collis NEWS EDITOR Waterloo South Lyn Turnbull ASSISTANT EDITOR Louisa Dyce large gaps in communication in ARTS & FESTIVALS URBAN DESIGN Anna North Waterloo. A newsletter in January BOOKS DAVID LILLEY 2019 explained that a preferred Catherine DeMayo masterplan for the estate had EDUCATION Melinda Kearns FIVE years after the been prepared and described its ENVIRONMENT announcement that the Waterloo attributes. The next newsletter Miriam Pepper Estate will be redeveloped, a was published in June 2020, HUMAN AFFAIRS Social Sustainability Report nearly 18 months later. This Sunrise over Redfern, May 19. Photo: Featogrefi Allison Forrest has just been released to newsletter described the results FAITH Dorothy McRae-McMahon the public. Its purpose is to of a new planning process that HEALTH look at how to “maximise related to only part of the estate. Megan Weier positive social outcomes for There were no newsletters in LEGAL & FOOD Maidie Wood current, neighbouring and between to explain that revisions Support for Redfern LOCALS likely future communities were being made, why this Adrian Spry through the project”. was happening, how long it THEATRE would take, or how community Catherine Skipper Fire Station crew FILM The report touches on many members might be involved. Lindsay Cohen important issues, including the Over the past five years MUSIC need for community development, millions of dollars in staff time We need more rescue Tess Ridgway COMMENT a human services plan, new and consulting fees have been professionals in our City, SPORT & FITNESS Steve Turner community facilities, consistent spent planning for redevelopment. LINDA SCOTT not fewer. URBAN DESIGN communication, ongoing Unfortunately, there has not In 2019, Redfern Fire Station Geoff Turnbull resident engagement, and place been comparable effort to sustain THE NSW government needs to celebrated the very first all- SUB EDITORS Cathie Harrison making. However, there are the health and wellbeing of the commit to increasing fire and Indigenous platoon of permanent Melinda Kearns few specific commitments or community, despite it being a rescue services in the City of firefighters at Redfern and their

DISTRIBUTION timeframes. Most of the issues period of significant uncertainty. Sydney, and rule out any cuts to story and connection to the [email protected] and actions are intended to be While it is not an exhaustive stations or services. community was featured by DESIGN taken up by a private developer list, here are eight things SBS News. GasolineGroup | www.gasolinegroup.com.au who is yet to be appointed. the NSW Land and Housing If current global warming City residents have always PRINTER Politicians and staff associated Corporation can do to support continues, the frequency been so proud of our Redfern Spotpress Pty Ltd | www.spotpress.com with the project are fond of the health and wellbeing of of extreme-heat days in the Station crew, and their “We gratefully acknowledge the saying that it applies the lessons the community, consistent City of Sydney local area will connection to our communities. many volunteer contributors and distributors who make this of previous redevelopments, with the Social Sustainability increase from three days a year Redfern Fire Station is 120 years publication possible.” including those in Minto, report recommendations. in 2015 to 15 days a year in old and thriving – long may it REGULAR CONTRIBUTORS Bonnyrigg, Airds, and Riverwood. Articulate the social outcomes 2070. Higher temperatures will continue to serve our diverse Alice Anderson Patricia Morgan David Angell Peter Murphy However, the Social Sustainability the project is intended to achieve increase the likelihood of fires. and growing City communities. Adam Antonelli Thea Ormerod Report makes no mention of and explain how current and As the impact of climate I’m proud to have successfully George Barrett Julie Patterson Andrew Chuter Miriam Pepper any of these projects, or the future work is designed to change worsens, the City’s moved for the City of Sydney Philippa Clark Stephen Pickells Pat Clarke Sue Plyde extensive research that has deliver these outcomes. growing population will Council to unanimously resolve Lindsay Cohen Tess Ridgway been conducted on them. Commit to a regular cycle of rely more heavily on the to support the continuation Gregg Dobson Heather Robinson Louisa Dyce Stafford Sanders Clear evidence is available newsletters and other forms of support of our fire and rescue of fire and rescue services in Rosalind Flatman Nina Serova regarding the importance of communication, to ensure that professionals. By 2030, there Redfern, and to call on the NSW Katie Gompertz Michael Shreenan David Gore Catherine Skipper supporting residents throughout the community has access to will be approximately 1.7 million government to commit state Kat Hines Aline Smith Alexandra Hogan all stages of a redevelopment. reliable and timely information. people in the City each day, with funding to ensure all NSW Fire Gai Smith Perry Johnstone Laura Jones Gary Speechley This should commence as soon Create and maintain a an additional 56,000 housing Stations in the City of Sydney Anne Jordan Adrian Spry as residents are notified of community engagement plan that dwellings by 2036. remain open and permanently Roger Jowett Seda Star Laura Kelly Velvet Steele the project, as this can trigger makes clear the opportunities Redfern Fire Station responded staffed. Stay tuned! S Caitlin Kensey Scott Geoff Turnbull substantial stress and anxiety for residents to participate in the to 1,300 incidents in 2019, Claire Lewis Steve Turner Marjorie Lewis-Jones Marg Vazey for some people. One of the most project, and the level of influence and this will increase with Linda Scott is a Labor Councillor with the Chris Lodge Stephen Webb norrie mAy-welby Megan Weier effective approaches is to have a they will have when they do. dangerous climate change and City of Sydney and President of Local Julie McCrossin Justin Whelan human service plan that is tailored Review research conducted increasing City populations. Government NSW. Isobel McIntosh Alan Williamson Sam McNair Bill Yan to the stages of the redevelopment on previous redevelopment project and is continually projects in NSW, make this DISTRIBUTORS Alice Anderson Matt McLennan revised in response to emerging available to staff, contractors, Eleanor Boustead Dorothy McRae-McMahon issues. However, five years and stakeholders, and ensure of the Waterloo community and technical experts when Gabrielle Brine Marie Moradinis Michael Condon Jane Morro after the redevelopment of the that it is incorporated into all are addressed. developing the tender Yvonne Cowell Margaret Neale Waterloo Estate was announced, strategies and plans for Waterloo. Develop a long-term human specifications for engaging a Alice Crawford Jim Patsouris Jules Cure Pepsee there is still no such plan. Work with residents and other service plan and appropriate private developer, to ensure that Sue Dahl Des Perry Peter Dodds Research also indicates that stakeholders to periodically governance arrangements to social sustainability is a core Heather Robinson Perry Johnstone S Lincoln Sharp one of the most effective ways identify, assess, and respond to respond to the needs of different priority of the project. Anne Jordan Desley Haas Colin Sharp of maintaining the health and risks to the social sustainability population groups during Adrian Spry Gabriel Haslam wellbeing of communities is to of the community. different stages of redevelopment David Lilley is a consultant and PhD Rod Haslam Rikki Taylor John Lanzky Margaret Vazey provide them with continuous Develop an interim human (ongoing planning, rehousing, student at the University of NSW Julie McCrossin Rosie Wagstaff communication, to provide them service plan immediately, to norrie mAy-welby Naomi Ward demolition, construction, and School of Public Health and Community Mary Ellen McCue Diane Whitworth with a sense of certainty and ensure that stress, anxiety, new residents moving in). Medicine. He has previously worked on control. However, there have been and other immediate needs Involve residents, stakeholders, estate renewal projects for LAHC. SEPTEMBER 2020 NEWS 3 OzHarvest market offers food relief to locals

HUMAN AFFAIRS stronger steps to rebuild their lives during this pandemic.” SSH Once a week throughout June and July, OzHarvest ran a WATERLOO: A former local “pop up” Hamper Hub, which grocery store in the Waterloo distributed 600 bags of free Estate has been transformed groceries and pre-cooked meals into a food relief market to local residents. This trial to support the vulnerable confirmed the need for the new community in inner-Sydney. “take what you need, give if you can” market, which is open from OzHarvest Market Waterloo Friday-Monday, 10 am to 2 pm, at was launched in late July as part 95 Wellington Street, Waterloo. of OzHarvest’s new emergency Lord Mayor of Sydney, Clover services to address the drastic Moore, said the City of Sydney rise in demand for food relief. (CoS) had identified access to OzHarvest Founder and food as a significant issue early CEO, Ronni Kahn AO, said the in the pandemic and part of its new market has been made emergency response provided possible thanks to wonderful OzHarvest with a $1 million partnerships with City of Sydney donation to help support and NSW Land and Housing vulnerable communities. Corporation to take over a OzHarvest’s volumes of rescued long-term lease at the site and food had fluctuated dramatically serve the local community. during the pandemic, she “The impact of COVID-19 has said, forcing the organisation seen food relief hit an all-time to purchase food for the first high, with so many men, women time in 16 years to help meet and children experiencing food the increased demand. insecurity for the first time This is why the CoS had ever in their lives. OzHarvest is launched a fundraising committed to feeding as many campaign urging the people as possible and has community to dig deep and help The new Oz Harvest market in Waterloo supplies food to people in the area who need it most (and of course follows strict Covid-19 safety protocols). Photo: Lyn Turnbull expanded its services, beyond the OzHarvest, Ms Moore said. usual food rescue operations to The pandemic has seen regional and bushfire affected OzHarvest to expand its food wheels turning and make sure we offer new emergency food relief. OzHarvest introduce a range communities and pre-cooked rescue operations and offer continue to get food to those who “We know the importance of of new emergency food relief meals by OzHarvest chefs and emergency food relief to enable need it most.” S providing a nourishing meal. services including; regular external hospitality partners. people to take steps to rebuild It’s more than just food. It weekly Hamper Hubs for Ms Kahn said the fundraising their lives during the pandemic. Donations to the City of Sydney/ means that families who are international students, a mobile appeal, alongside the City’s “This problem is not going away OzHarvest Food Relief Appeal can be struggling will be able to take market distributing food to $1 million donation, will help and support is needed to keep our made online at www.feedsydney.com

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Tax Help is a vital service provided by volunteers with the Australian Tax Office to assist people completing their tax returns. Every year, my office Ministers agree to Waterloo cuts facilitates this service for Sydney. URBAN DESIGN community issues which affect place making, community facilities You are eligible for Tax Help in 2019–20 if your their lives”. and human service planning income is around $60,000 or less for the income GEOFF TURNBULL The immediate implication be “part of the procurement for year and you did not: is that Waterloo tenants have the redevelopment”. This works LAND and Housing Corporation to get future support from when LAHC relocates everyone work as a contractor, for example a contract (LAHC) defunded the Waterloo Mission Australia’s TPCE workers. for a redevelopment like at Ivanhoe. cleaner or taxi driver Community Development, The TPCE Program Guidelines LAHC puts future requirements run a business, including as a sole trader Aboriginal Liaison and Bilingual with DCJ State and Sydney District into the contract so the developers have partnership or trust matters Workers (Mandarin and Russian) Requirements are on the REDWatch pay for it during the development in June. Local organisations, website. Tenants can then take up or in ongoing operations. sell shares or own an investment property Counterpoint Community Services any support issues with Mission LAHC has submitted a plan own a rental property (CCS), Inner Sydney Voice (ISV) Australia, and DCJ district and for only 37 per cent of the and REDWatch wrote to Minister state officials that mange the estate’s public housing units. have capital gains tax (CGT) Pavey (LAHC) and Minister Ward contract obligations. At procurement, the developer receive royalties (Department of Communities TPCE replaced tenant support will be responsible for its part receive distributions from a trust, other than a and Justice (DCJ)) to ask for services provided locally by ISV of the site. LAHC has said it is managed fund continued funding. The reply on and Counterpoint in December unlikely there would only be one behalf of the ministers is on the 2018 and DCJ moved funding developer on such a large site. receive foreign income, other than a foreign REDWatch website. that supported community Until they were redeveloped pension or annuity. gardeners until 2016 to another there would be no developer- Call my office to book an appointment on The response acknowledged disadvantaged community as it delivered benefits to deliver (02) 9379 0700. and appreciated “the valuable only supported a small number social sustainability for the relationships developed with the of tenants in Waterloo. rest of the estate and the 500 community and the meaningful Using the City of Sydney as public housing properties in ELECTORATE OFFICE contribution and support provided cover to cease funding needs closer the adjoining conservation area. by the independent community examination. The Waterloo Metro There are major problems My electorate office continues to provide support workers over the last few years proponents undertook engagement and gaps in leaving community with Centrelink, Veterans’ Affairs, Medicare, in Waterloo”, but said, “LAHC is when DPIE was the consent development, community facilities Immigration, NBN and other federal matters. not in a position to continue the authority. LAHC does not have to planning and place making until However, for the first weeks of September, we community worker contracts, stop support because the City is the procurement. They have nothing to will not be able to provide our usual Justice of as the City of Sydney is the consent authority. do with the consent authority. the Peace service. Please contact us anytime for consent authority and will lead The independent support One breakthrough in the assistance or to make an appoinment. the community consultation”. positions were for the preparation ministerial response was LAHC will provide critical of the masterplan. LAHC has yet a commitment to deliver a information regarding the Waterloo to finish its master planning for Human Services Plan for Waterloo. redevelopment where required. the rest of the site. This and the It is to be led by the Housing TANYA PLIBERSEK MP The reply highlights that promised Human Services Plan and and Property Group within the DCJ funds Mission Australia to Community Facilities consultations Department of Planning, Industry Federal Member for Sydney deliver the Tenant Participation will happen without these workers. & Environment (DPIE) with support 1A Great Buckingham St, Redfern NSW 2016 and Community Engagement NGOs argued the positions from DCJ. LAHC sits within this T: 9379 0700 E: [email protected] (TPCE) program to “support were needed for the life of the DPIE group. S social housing tenants to access project, not just master planning. information and services, connect The Social Sustainability Study Geoff Turnbull handlesSSH with their local communities recommends crucial elements, Urban Design content and is a and participate in housing and such as community development, co-spokesperson of REDWatch. SEPTEMBER 2020 NEWS 5 Jenny Leong MP STATE MEMBER FOR NEWTOWN

Our inner city community has a significant amount of public housing – with many of those in our neighbourhood living in high-rise buildings. So it was with shock that we watched the situation unfold in Melbourne which saw the Victorian Government go in hard with a police lockdown of whole public housing communities without any warning.

As this unfolded, we immediately got in touch with the NSW Premier, relevant Ministers and the Department of Community and Justice to seek urgent assurance that nothing similar would be done in Sydney – and to ensure all was being done to prevent a COVID-19 outbreak in our public housing communities. Felipe Vilches at 107 Projects. Photo: Andrew Collis Our office has been working closely with tenants and local A creative hub at the centre of community organisations on the ground to ensure everyone in the Newtown electorate is kept as safe and as supported as possible – particularly those living in high density social LOCALS young Aboriginal artist, Jessica to join us as we delve into Tobin, with whom he now everything from racism to music.” housing across the inner city. ANDREW COLLIS shares the studio. “Jess does a Felipe, whose family are lot of canvas art, and also art from Chile, is aware that many As a direct result of our advocacy, we are pleased to report REDFERN: Felipe Vilches is a on clothing and fabric, as well South Americans are suffering that significant action has been taken in line with the concerns resident artist at 107 Projects as working with her dad.” right now. “With Covid-19, it’s raised by those living in public housing. This includes: on Redfern Street. A visual Artist Ana Maria also works a very, very different situation artist, poet and musician, in the space. “Apart from over there,” he says. “Many he is also a sound engineer painting, Ana does beading,” governments are just letting ▸ A commitment that any response to a COVID-19 case and radio presenter (with Felipe explains. “She learned people go, letting things happen. or cluster in public housing would be led by NSW Health, several years’ experience beading from traditional elders in In other places there’s giant that notice would be given, and that plans for if there was at Koori Radio 93.7FM). Colombia, so spent time over there lockdown. And there’s no real to be an outbreak including clear communication with learning the craft. She also helps health system. Intensive care, tenants has been established “Initially, I wanted to use [the support people in South America, all of that is very different. So studio] as my own artistic space,” families who do this work and people are just checking in with Felipe says. “But then there’s send beading over here as well.” their families and making sure ▸ Cleaners on site 7am to 7pm, seven days per week cleaning also a multimedia room here, so Felipe and Ana have recently that they’re fine. I think that’s the and disinfecting high traffic areas and touch points in high I can use that as a music room, joined Aimee Flores’s podcast biggest thing from migrants who density blocks as a recording space. I felt it was platform Sangre Migrante are here now.” S important to use the art studio (Migrant Blood). The three artists ▸ Hand sanitiser in the main entrance of high rise tower blocks in a way that I had set out in my host a podcast called Between 107 is not currently open to the general residency brief – to share the Sacred Lands. “It’s about three public. Major partner the City of Sydney ▸ Important COVID-19 Information in a variety of languages space, to bring artists together, artists reflecting on what it means is providing limited access to community displayed in all public housing precincts, and delivered bring them out of their silos.” to be both Australian and Latin- facilities and services. Follow on Facebook Felipe is excited to have met a American. We invite listeners and Instagram to stay up to date. directly to tenants

▸ A full audit of all shared laundry facilities to identify and replace any faulty machines by the end of September, in Pemulwuy – hands up to live there! order to allow for greater social distancing and to prevent residents having to travel across floors and buildings SPONSORED The “Pemulwuy Project” is about giving our future generation AMANDA FLEMING a hand up, not a hand out. We We have also written directly to all those living in public want to give Aboriginal and housing high-rise, to ensure that they have the necessary REDFERN: As promised the Torres Strait Islander people contact numbers and health advice. Aboriginal Housing Company the opportunity to live at is about to deliver affordable Pemulwuy with modern housing housing for our people first in the that is culturally appropriate, “Pemulwuy Project”, Redfern. centred around the core values of family and community. Our wonderful new housing “We have always had faith will be ready by the end of the that this vision for our people Jenny Leong, MP for Newtown year and we encourage any was going to happen, it was just If you have a question or are keen to be involved, send a text to Aboriginal and Torres Strait a matter of when,” says Michael Mick Mundine is proud that the Aboriginal Islander people to apply for Mundine, CEO, Aboriginal Housing Company will soon provide affordable 0421 665 208 with your name, suburb and message and we’ll an apartment or townhouse Housing Company Ltd. modern housing that is culturally appropriate at Pemulwuy. Photo: Amanda Fleming give you a call or you can email [email protected] through our website. Please The affordable housing consists read through our eligibility of 26 generously sized apartments criteria before submitting and 36 large townhouses. Internal ple toge g peo ther Authorised by in any applications online. fit-outs in the apartments are ng ri b Our dream has always been being finished level by level this Jenny Leong MP to create a positive future for month, with carpets being laid State Member for Newtown the next generation that starts and fixtures being completed. with housing. Children will Construction of the townhouses pemulwuy 383 King St, Newtown, NSW 2042 have the chance to grow up at is in progress and, as each week T: 02 9517 2800 F: 02 9230 3352 Pemulwuy, in a proud, strong passes, they are also making great Authorised by Michael Mundine, CEO, [email protected] and safe urban community. headway. S Aboriginal Housing Company Limited 6 SOCIAL JUSTICE SEPTEMBER 2020 Pandemic is teaching us how to respond to climate change

AMY CHENG addresses a different emotion. Ms Huntley believes that RESPONSES to the Covid-19 understanding emotions is key pandemic offers lessons on to understanding humans. how climate change can be “Climate change is largely addressed, an Australian a human-caused issue and social researcher and expert humans will need to drive on social trends has said. the solutions,” she said. “So, we need to understand the Although the pandemic has complex ways in which human meant that climate change has beings respond to information, not been prominent in recent particularly information that is public discourse, Rebecca confronting and difficult.” Huntley believes responses to the To start a conversation about pandemic should bring confidence climate change, Ms Huntley that people can come together recommends people begin by to address climate change. working out their own emotional Ms Huntley launched her reactions and then seeking to book How to Talk About Climate understand and empathise with Change in a Way That Makes people who feel differently about it. a Difference in July and has “So, coming from a spent the past few months position not of judgement researching what the pandemic but of empathy,” she said. could mean for climate change. All emotional responses to climate Governments have shown a change make sense, according respect for experts, she said, with Coming from a position of empathy is important when discussing climate change. Photo: SS4C to Ms Huntley, and they can be more reliance on their opinions both productive and destructive. to guide public and policy “That willingness to change understand their emotional can have a conversation about “Yelling at your uncle at responses to the pandemic. behaviour to protect the collective responses to climate change and climate change,” she said. Christmas because he doesn’t “I think that should be a model and to protect the broader aims to break the climate silence. “You don’t have to be a climate believe in climate change is for how politicians deal with community, and particularly the There are people who are scientist, you don’t have to be probably not the best use of your crises and has been lacking in most vulnerable … If we can very vocal about climate change across all the facts and figures, time and energy, and is probably not so many politicians’ responses maintain that, even as things start and people on the other side and you don’t even really need going to be effective,” she said. S to climate change,” she said. to get more dire, that’s a really trying to shut down the debate, to be certain in your views … There has also been a dramatic good example of the strength according to Ms Huntley. but climate change is something How to Talk About Climate Change in a Way change in people’s behaviours of our society,” she said. “I want everybody in the that is going to affect us all.” That Makes a Difference, Rebecca Huntley to protect others from Covid. Her book helps people to middle to start to feel like they Each chapter of her book $32.99, Murdoch Books, 2020

that 28.6 per cent of LGBTI young people aged 16 to 27 identify with ‘We are the change’ for a racial or ethnic background other than Anglo-Celtic and that LGBTIQA+ young people 18 per cent of them report having experienced a conflict between their cultural background and HUMAN AFFAIRS their sexuality or gender identity. One relatively recent research MARJORIE LEWIS-JONES paper I unearthed by ACON, Western Sydney University and ON August 28, Wear it Purple Day the NSW LGBTIQ Domestic & celebrated its 10th Anniversary, Family Violence Interagency, and I helped a colleague write shows that while CALD LGBTIQ+ a speech for one of its events. people experience high levels of family violence at the time of Wear it Purple was created coming out and during events in response to the suicide like the Marriage Equality vote, of New Jersey teen, Tyler families are also an incredible Clementi, who took his own source of support when CALD The Women’s Reconciliation Network (WRN) is collecting donations (small and large) life after being publicly “outed” LGBTIQ+ are accepted by their towards the Pat Zinn Scholarship established by the Older Women’s Network. Pat was a as gay by his roommate. families and wider communities. quiet spirit guide and companion to many. She attended the significant Celebration of the It was co-founded in 2010 by One gay Tongan man cited Women’s Gathering in Sydney, 1996. Soon after this inaugural gathering, Pat became one Burwood High school student recalled the same-sex marriage of the Founding Members of the WRN. Photo: Supplied Katherine Hudson and university debate exposing homophobic student Scott Williams as an On its 10th anniversary, the Wear It Purple Day attitudes in his family. annual LGBTIQA+ awareness theme calls people to recognise ‘We are the “It was really heartbreaking change’. Photo: Supplied day especially for young people, to see your family say they love experts, Professor Ian Hickie AC Celebrating and promoting the based in Australia. It has since you unconditionally, but they and Professor Patrick McGorry AC, value of diversity and inclusion grown to be an international day of Mental Health and Suicide will never accept your sexuality.” said this tragically higher rate is in communities and families. of solidarity in which supporters Prevention Statistics for LGBTI Another gay man with a Spanish likely to persist for up to five years Raising awareness about wear purple to celebrate diversity People states, this higher risk of and Italian background said, “We if the economic downturn lasts sexuality, sex and gender and young people from the suicidal behaviours and poorer cannot rely on family in ways that more than 12 months. identity and challenging LGBTIQA+ community. mental health outcomes is directly straight people take for granted. “Such a death rate is likely harmful social cultures. Businesses, councils, schools, related to experiences of stigma, “We can never feel fully at home at this stage to overshadow the Fighting bullying community groups and clubs prejudice, discrimination and in either our heritage culture number of deaths in Australia and discrimination to can participate by wearing abuse on the basis of being LGBTI. nor in Australian society or even directly attributable from to incorporate safety, inclusion purple and hosting events. Meaning: there are real dangers in the queer community.” COVID-19 infection,” they said. and empowerment in our My research for the speech for our young people in expressing The trio identified seven schools, workplaces and revealed some chilling statistics – the realities of their sexuality COVID-19 increase actions needed to address the community services. and behind them myriad struggles. and gender identities – and there Dynamic modelling of the crisis, including the expansion Championing rainbow Namely: LGBTI young people is a lot more work for us all to adverse impacts of COVID-19 on of youth mental health services, role-models to help young between the ages of 16 and do to before they feel safe. unemployment, social dislocation, with particular focus on urgent people build the confidence 27 are five times more likely Another thing I discovered is and mental health shows there assessment and support for to be who they are. than their peers to attempt there is not a huge amount of may be a 25 per cent increase in engagement and participation in My colleague’s speech ended suicide, transgender people research about LGBTIQ+ people’s suicides, and it is likely that about education and employment. with a more succinct call to over 18 are nearly 11 times experiences of family – or how 30 per cent of those will be among The Wear It Purple Day action – and she delivered it more likely, and people with these experiences vary for people young people. theme “We are the Change” beautifully. an intersex variation over 16 are who also identify as culturally and In a joint statement distributed also asks us to act now: “Let’s do it, together,” she said. nearly six times more likely. linguistically diverse (CALD). in May, AMA President, Dr Tony Advocating for and empowering “In purple. Clearly, as the 2020 Snapshot This dearth is concerning given Bartone, and leading mental health rainbow young people. “We are the Change.” S SEPTEMBER 2020 COMMENT & OPINION 7 A Buddhist response to Covid-19

FAITH thoughts react to our predicament. We can start being mindful simply DHARMACHARI DHARMANANDA by being aware of our body as we quietly walk along. We can also UNDER Covid-19 we find ourselves try a fairly easy meditation, sitting absorbed in a common experience quietly, carefully watching the of suffering. Previously we have breath come and go. Whatever we perhaps known about many can do to be more mindful can help kinds of suffering, but often these us to stem the reactive mindset that were things “other people” or can arise from this crisis situation. “other countries” suffered, but not The measures we are asked ourselves. to follow to contain Covid-19 call upon us to forego self-interest The Buddhist perspective regards and put the communal good first. “suffering” as an ever-present This compassion is the hallmark common experience of human of Buddhist life. We again have existence, and recognises that we direct ways to cultivate compassion have a deep wish to avoid it. But, “at home”. It starts with a quality cartoon: norrie mAy-welby for Buddhists, the many sufferings of “mettã” – open friendliness- of Covid-19 are held in acceptance kindness. Sitting quietly, we can of the human situation. bring to mind what is good for September 25 – fund our future not gas Common sufferings we see under ourselves, our friends and everyone Covid-19 are uncertainty and death. in our community – wishing all EDITORIAL In a report released in August as Instead, they should be spent on: Faced with these possibilities, we to be well, happy and free from part of an inquiry into Australia’s may well experience denial, anger, suffering. By acknowledging other SSH gas supply arrangements, the ƒ Resourcing Aboriginal and anxiety and many frustrations people’s sufferings – ill‑health, Australian Competition and Torres Strait Islander-led – but it doesn’t need to be this death, economic stress – we can SCHOOL Strike 4 Climate Consumer Commission (ACCC) solutions that guarantee land way. We can work collectively take that feeling of mettã into (SS4C) and SEED Indigenous has criticised the gas industry for rights and care for country and individually with the great a wish for all to be free of Covid Youth Climate Network ask charging local gas users almost uncertainties and the shadow sufferings, thus creating a supporters to take part in double the prices paid by overseas ƒ The creation of jobs that fast- of death. Buddhist methods for compassion that brings us all a national day of action on customers. And far from providing track solutions to the climate cultivating mindfulness and closer together. September 25 and call on evidence for a “gas-led recovery”, crisis and help communities practising compassion can help Some traditional Buddhist the government to “fund our the ACCC found that the industry recover us all to overcome the underlying countries have done well in future not gas”. was failing to support recovery fears and anxieties of life with the management of Covid-19. for local industrial users and ƒ Projects that transition our Covid-19. Places like Vietnam, Cambodia Governments around the world manufacturers. economy and communities to Fear, anger and anxiety can and Thailand have remarkably are spending vast amounts to The gas industry is one of the 100 per cent renewable energy take over our mindset, colour low infection and death rates. stimulate their economies in least labour-intensive industries by 2030, through expanded our thoughts, and make it harder I believe their success must in the wake of Covid-19. This is an in Australia – providing around public ownership to see and feel our way through some way reflect the worldview of opportunity to build the future we, one eighth as many jobs per the issues of Covid-19. We need the “ordinary” people. They have our children and grandchildren dollar spent as the average for all Actions on the day can include something fairly simple that we this deeper acceptance of suffering can all thrive in by creating clean Australian industries, according to an online group selfie, gathering can do at home to help restore and an emotional preparedness jobs that care for country, climate the Australia Institute. with a small group in a park to a more grounded awareness of to deal with trauma. They enjoy and our communities. SS4C and SEED ask us all to host take a photo with a banner, or what’s happening in our lives, and a more profound worldview of the ​Instead the Australian actions on September 25 in our creating a giant art installation. to develop a compassion that is interconnectedness, not just of government and its National suburbs, towns and homes, and Wear yellow and make sure your big enough to hold our collective all people, but of all life. Covid-19 Commission, which has then take to local and social media action includes the words “fund response to Covid-19. Covid-19 is no longer heavy representation from the oil with a message to government to our future not gas”. S Buddhist practice centres around “unprecedented” it is our new and gas industry, are planning to #FundOurFutureNotGas. mindfulness: a grounded presence normal and will be for some time. spend billions on expanding the Covid-19 recovery funds should www.schoolstrike4climate.com/ of mind, fully aware of our actions, Let’s hope that we can learn to gas industry – a potent contributor not be spent on gas and other buildourfuture speech and thoughts, and how meet all the new challenges with to climate change. damaging fossil fuel projects. [email protected] our felt experience, emotions and mindfulness and love. S

positively influencing property presents the lowest level of Housing diversity and affordability in Waterloo prices which in turn increases risk and based on community barriers to affordability and engagement sits most comfortably COMMENT Sydney social housing renewal How do our friends at HillPDA therefore diversity. with the majority of tenants.” project. Apparently, when you deal with this debate between A building-by-building approach PETER PHIBBS get that mix, social housing LAHC and the City of Sydney? ƒ Of the households within the study is when you separate out the social tenants get the advantages of They ignore it. Even though the area that were renting, 43 per cent housing tenants in one building IF you want to get an idea of all those private sector neighbours report is about housing diversity were experiencing rental stress. and the private residents in what’s wrong with housing who will offer them life tips and and affordability, it doesn’t another. This is LAHC’s preferred policy and planning in Sydney, line up jobs for their children! address this key debate. ƒ The housing affordability challenge option. You get some more details reading the Housing Diversity But as my colleagues The index refers to City Makers in Sydney is affecting more than on what tenants think in the and Affordability study is a Michael Darcy and Dallas Rogers as “professionals, knowledge and just the socially disadvantaged or consultation section on page 74: great place to start. It is written point out in a recent article in key workers that support and low income earners. “46 per cent of respondents by HillPDA, whose speciality is The Conversation, there is no enhance the effective operation wanted social, affordable and financial feasibility analysis for magic number and no evidence of a global city”. I would like ƒ Households on very low or low private housing to be provided property development. that a 70:30 split is optimum. to think we all can be city incomes cannot afford to rent a within the same building. After reviewing the extensive makers – social housing tenants, one- or two-bedroom apartment “26 per cent wanted social and The study HillPDA has literature on this topic, they shopkeepers, retired people, etc. in the Sydney LGA. Households affordable housing together within prepared is for Land and Housing conclude: “Social mix renewals The report seems to work pretty on a moderate income could the same building, alongside private Corporation (LAHC), which that apply a simplistic 70:30 hard to come up with the answer afford a one-bedroom but not a housing in separate buildings. is responsible for the NSW target within a narrowly defined the client wants. HillPDA comes two-bedroom apartment.” “16 per cent wanted all three government’s social housing boundary around an ‘estate’ to the following conclusions in its types of housing to be separate. portfolio. It is a public trading risk seriously undervaluing analysis of housing affordability: So, despite the pretty obvious “13 per cent had no preference.” enterprise. LAHC wants to large public housing assets.” “Retaining and/or improving conclusion from this evidence that By my maths, the majority redevelop the government’s land In my view, the 70:30 mix housing choice within the study we have a shortage of affordable of tenants ask to be located in holdings in Waterloo. The key seems more focused on saving area and the City of Sydney is a housing and that a target like the the same building – i.e., not a to this approach is to sell off the government money. A different real and growing challenge. City of Sydney’s preferred option building-by-building approach. government-owned land to mix might produce better might be more apt – no, the Maybe the consultation results developers. How does LAHC justify outcomes for social housing ƒ Whilst historically a range of answer is 5 per cent affordable! aren’t important because tenants this when we have such a shortage tenants and reduce our shortage factors have enabled a diversity It gets worse when we look at aren’t really city makers? of social housing in Australia? of social housing. Indeed, this is of dwelling and household types how we deliver the social housing My one-word summary is The number that LAHC has an ambition of the City of Sydney, to reside within the Sydney LGA in the renewed development. ughhhhhh! S plucked out of the air is 70 per which has the public view that (such as social housing, lower On page 69 the report states: cent private and 30 per cent social it wants the site to work harder entry costs, etc.), its growing “Of all approaches examined, Professor Peter Phibbs is Director of the as the ratio for housing on any and has suggested a 50:50 split. attraction as a place to live is the building-by-building approach Henry Halloran Trust at Sydney University. 8 FEATURE SEPTEMBER 2020

Hiromi Tango, ‘Heart’, 2020, Textile, 35cm diameter. Photo: Aaron Anderson Art that flies beyond borders

Aproximación al lugar de los hechos. Photo: Supplied ART From this came her series of drawings, the ‘Healing Circles’. Beginning with the grey SSH palette of the earth’s pain and suffering, and working through the meditative Beauty, compassion – JAPANESE-AUSTRALIAN artist, Hiromi process of drawing and redrawing, these Tango, says the series that make up her finally evolved to encompass a bright and a fierce message exhibition New Now represent an artistic palette of positivity and joy. response to overwhelming situations, Next, Tango says, just as she and other and a quest for healing. Australians began to think they might ART Her work as a forensic scientist informs recover from the bushfires, Covid-19 and inspires her art, and her art explores “How do we define now? How can we changed everyone’s world radically and ANNA NORTH and lays bare the relationship between build resilience? How do we adapt to new borders closed. poverty, violence, marginalisation, realities? How can we build hope in this “‘Beyond Borders’ captures that moment CARRIAGEWORKS was placed into gender and the anonymous victims challenging time?” of deep anxiety, fearing for the safety of voluntary administration on May of violence who can’t be identified The sculpture, paintings and drawings loved ones in Australia and in Japan, not 4. Two weeks later help came from but deserve to be mourned. in New Now were developed in 2019 knowing when or if we can meet again. philanthropists and the venue rose Margolles worked with a group of and 2020 – a period in which Tango’s “I began to focus on the things we from the dead. The venue reopened students from the National Art School in hometown of Tweed Heads was engulfed could still share even across the ocean, to the public on August 7. Since that Sydney to create this installation. They in bushfire and she was isolated from her and imagined a bird that could fly beyond time, free access to a range of visual sought out and visited 20 sites where ageing parents in Japan due to Covid-19. borders, and the perspective of all the art, including eight new installations violent acts, homicides and disappearances Beginning with ‘Kimono’s Will’, a ways that nature can still connect us commissioned for the 22nd Sydney of women have taken place in Sydney and series of colourful textile sculptures through this time. Biennale, have been on display. surrounding suburbs. They poured water made from kimono fabric, Tango unwraps “The lockdown period has been so onto the ground where the homicides and resolves “the relationship between difficult for so many of us: isolation, lost Aproximación al lugar de los hechos and the disappearances of women took generations of women” and associated income, uncertainty about the future. (Approach to the scene), created by place, then absorbed small pieces of cultural expectations. For my practice, it has also meant a time Teresa Margolles, is a work I was material left by each violent act. Through these works, she says, pain of reimagining how to create collective immediately drawn to for its beauty, The finished artwork, surrounded related to her complex relationship experiences that are joyful and uplifting, compassion, and its fierce message. by red industrial plastic, shows 20 with her mother “released like the and that can help us all to feel connected at Margolles was born in Culiacán, steaming iron plates onto which the kite without thread, and I felt a heavy a time when we must be ‘together apart’.” Mexico, in 1963. She originally trained drops of water, laced with the residue weight taken from me”. The final works – ‘New’, ‘Now’ and ‘Heal’ as a forensic pathologist, and holds of violence, fall from above. Having just negotiated this peace – focus on the things we can influence, diplomas in science of communication and The effect is both churchlike and between her two worlds of Japan and Tango says, to find the beauty in the moment. forensic medicine. She has been creating hellish. The silence accentuates the Australia, the chaos of the bushfires “‘Now’ is where we discover our own sculptural installations, photographs, hiss of falling water, and the faint smell began in late 2019. ability to be resilient in the face of all the films and performances about trauma and proximity to a scalding hot iron “I remember feeling so helpless, things we can’t control.” S and loss for over 25 years, and works combine to create an air of sinister yet watching the news while working closely with communities that have sacred ceremony. See it if you dare … overseas, and wanting to somehow New Now runs from September 3 – October 3, 2020, at no access to systems of social care. Welcome back Carriageworks! S heal the landscape.” Sullivan+Strumpf, 799 Elizabeth Street, Zetland.

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THEATRE and not just be sitting there stressing communicating through the internet … trapped in [their] own space.” was a complete mystery. However, Catherine Skipper Jobkeeper enabled Milk Crate to the time has arrived when working maintain a core staff, and without together again in small groups is not IT is difficult at any time for this support, says Wainwright, far away. Wainwright looks forward our small not-for-profit local “we might have been forced into to it as she feels “it’s hard to get a organisations working to support hibernation. It was scary.” In creative flow in a digital environment”. vulnerable people to find sufficient addition, several grants, for instance, However, one of the benefits funding. So, imagine the stress a Westpac Foundation Community of digitalising its programs has for Jodie Wainwright, CEO Grant of $10,000, enabled Milk been the realisation that Milk of the remarkable Milk Crate Crate to make a transition to digital Crate need no longer be bound by Theatre for less than a year, when technologies and a fully developed geographic boundaries. It can, for she and her staff had to meet online program, Stay Creative, instance, implement workshops Natural Order. Photo: Milk Crate Theatre the challenges of Covid-19. Stay Connected came into being. in regional NSW and there is A range of videos aimed at the possibility of sharing its work Milk Crate is well known for also addiction, disability and other Regretfully, Wainwright says, Milk maintaining a sense of community, with much wider audiences. its performance work with people mental health problems, Milk Crate Crate made the decision to proactively fostering good health and prompting However, Wainwright foresees who have experienced homelessness makes a major contribution to the suspend all its programs from March creative engagement were uploaded that a return to “normality” – and through its annual production (who reduction in pressure on already 18, 2020, onward until further notice. weekly. A 10-week series entitled she doesn’t think things will ever could forget 2019’s multi-media overburdened mental health services. Aware that its community was “Devising Theatre”, which included be quite the same again – will be welfare-recipients-eye-view of As Wainwright says, “It is not particularly vulnerable, not just to the opportunities for discussion through a challenge financially even to an Centrelink’s protocols) and it runs just about being part of a theatre health challenges of Covid-19 but Zoom, kept participants in touch enterprise that is skilled in managing drama workshops throughout project. [Participants] join a group, also to stress from increasing social with the skills needed to eventually things on “the smell of an oily rag”. the year at the Ozanam Learning make lots of social connections, isolation, Wainwright’s small team – (and hopefully) move into a new Centre, Woolloomooloo, the build their confidence. Many have now working reduced hours and from production – Tiny Universe. Milk Crate, along with Dress for Exodus Foundation in Ashfield, experienced an aura of invisibility for home – initiated a basic program. While an effective means of Success, the Social Outfit, and the and a youth program at Evolve years and they gain a voice through Operating mainly through email they lessening the impact of isolation, Women’s and Girls’ Emergency Housing for Youth, Parramatta. feeling they have contributed to invited their participants to engage Wainwright felt its success was Centre, who also received Westpac As the participants are not something. The skills they learn and in simple writing tasks in response limited. Many of the Milk Crate Foundation Grants, will be competing only people who experience confidence they gain [in workshops] to a prompt. It was, Wainwright says, community didn’t have up-to-date for the donation dollar in a very unstable housing situations but transfer directly to real life.” “something to get on with in life devices or internet plans and, to some, competitive environment.

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Originally scheduled to open at the theatre earlier this year, priority will be given to current ticket holders for the show, after which any available tickets will be made available to the general public for purchase. www.belvoir.com.au www.ahc.org.au/housing/applications 10 The Review – September 2020

and providing some employment in a Waterloo, Stebbins and an hilarious The rest is Grenville’s imagination, The Reviews difficult time, STC Virtual also provided Ash Flanders in Blackie, Blackie, Brown from Elizabeth’s dislike of her narcissistic an attractive platform from which to and that unforgettable speech by Tommy bully of a husband to her afternoons appeal for much needed donations to an Ryan (Hamish Michael) in How to Rule spent in the embrace of Mr Dawes, the dual timelines you also try to grapple entertainment industry in crisis. the World. astronomer, in the leafy room of the title. with the why. I do wonder if any of the Writers from the EWG jump-started All this and more, so watch STC While A Room Made of Leaves quotes actors understood what they were doing the series. An engaging Miranda Virtual now. Binge, and why not? letters written by the real Elizabeth while performing. Unlikely, so full credit Tapsell gives a lively performance of Macarthur, the fictional Elizabeth to them because across the board they Tiger Scare (writer, Wendy Mocke), » [email protected] explains that her letters were always are good, even Michael Caine, though which satirises airline peculiarities but written knowing her husband would read he was one of the few that didn’t travel also pays a tribute to the wisdom of them, as would many others besides the through time. I think. Probably. Aunties. Both funny and moving, Ex intended recipient. This gives Grenville In a post-Covid world where Utero ( Jordan Fulcher), performed by an wide license to present a character very Film Review everything is either too real or two weird, utterly convincing Stephanie Somerville, different from the Elizabeth whose by Lindsay Cohen Tenet is the perfect film to blow your explores a pivotal shift in power in a actual letters survive. mind on your return to the cinema, but mother-daughter relationship. While in Her descriptions of her new home’s Tenet in a good way. Lebanese BBQ ( James Elazzi) Priscilla natural beauty are among some of the Director: Christopher Nolan Rating: Half-and-a-three. Doueihy gives a sensitive portrayal book’s best prose: “Each step revealed a Stars: John David Washington, of a young woman’s “betrayal” of her new marvel: a view through the bushes Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki » [email protected] protective father as she pursues a of a slice of harbour rough and blue like Genre: Forward to the past desirable stranger. Book Review lapis, a tree with bark of such a smooth The wide-ranging series features two by Catherine DeMayo pink fleshiness that you could expect I’d love to be able to tell you what favourite Australian theatre presences, it to be warm, and overhang of rock Tenet is about but I’m not sure I really Tim Minchin and Hugo Weaving, both A Room Made of Leaves with a fraying underside, soft as cake, can. To say that this is a time-travel sci-fi of whom chose to read monologues Kate Grenville that glowed yellow … There was an film really doesn’t do it justice. Time from Shakespeare’s Hamlet. To play Text Publishing, 2020 almost frightening breadth and depth isn’t travelled so much as it is scrunched the Danish prince is something both and height to the place.” up and folded over multiple times, a actors have always wished to do – “A playful dance of possibilities Books like A Room Made of Leaves bit like toilet paper but without the and both disclaim the likelihood of between the real and the invented” present us with a character who may satisfying conclusion after the initial ever being invited to play this role is how Text Publishing promotes or may not have said, done, or thought effort. Beyond trying to save the world, Theatre Review – the difference in their approach is Kate Grenville’s A Room Made of Leaves. the things we read. This gives the author from what or whom I’m not really sure, by Catherine Skipper personally revealing. “What if Elizabeth Macarthur, wife almost carte blanche, for who can dispute I can’t elaborate on any plot lines or Revealing also, and fascinating, is the of the notorious John Macarthur … what someone might have thought? enlighten you with any insights. Why not binge watch STC Virtual? moment that Shari Stebbins becomes had written a shockingly frank secret Yet it seems farfetched to have the That’s not to say that Tenet is a bad Medea (Black Medea) and Helen memoir?” fictional Elizabeth, 40 years on, chiding film. Far from it. Like any good sci-fi The Sydney Theatre Company is Thomson transforms into Elizabeth l Of course, she didn’t (so far as we herself for being a thief for “every one offering there are impressive special plugging the large “theatre-shaped” (Mary Stuart), and the moment that know), so Grenville has used her of those forty years” because “I am not effects including a real 747 being driven hole left by the forced closure of public each returns to their everyday self. imagination to fill in the details of how prepared to give them (the Indigenous into a real building. venues to prevent the spreading of Astonishing, in fact, is the rapid a historical figure may have thought people) back what has always been Then it all gets difficult and Covid-19. Rather than using archival transition made by Stebbins from Rose- and acted. (A Room Made of Leaves, theirs”. In fact, the real Elizabeth complicated when parts of the action material to ensure that audiences and in-meltdown (Black is the New White) her sixteenth book, is the fourth in a Macarthur referred to the Aborigines go backwards, though this does make for artists stay connected, STC chose to back to friendly Shari. Stebbins, series of colonial novels, beginning with as “complete savages … lawless and the most extraordinary and sometimes present a series of short videos featuring a Richard Wherrett fellow at the STC, A Secret River in 2005.) troublesome” and lamented that “Our confusing fight scenes ever in cinema well-known actors, writers and directors. shows her versatility – playing several Most of the key historical facts are settlements are constantly subjected to where one protagonist or battle group The videos came in weekly instalments different roles throughout the series. true, though Grenville takes a few their depredations.” Why Grenville felt moving forward through time battles with in-home actors either performing There is so much to see: Tracey Mann liberties. The fictional Mrs Macarthur, the need to imbue her with such a noble another moving backwards. Give an original commissions from STC’s reading a savage critique of the ’50s like the real one, sails with husband outlook is puzzling and seems more Academy Award to the choreographers Emerging Writers Group (EWG), from Home, I’m Darling and Glace Chase John from England, pregnant and tokenistic than realistic. and editors. excerpts from plays in which they had giving a heart-breaking monologue with a toddler in tow. We hear of Still, this is a minor criticism of a book But to what purpose is difficult to performed (or were about to perform), from Triple X – both plays that were on John Macarthur’s notorious public that is well researched and well written, grasp. Just when you think you know and speeches, poems and passages of the verge of opening only to be cancelled. life through Elizabeth, who is vastly and which, unusually, tells Australian what’s going on, the scene changes for prose which they found personally There are excerpts from the tried and relieved when circumstances force him colonial history from a female perspective. reasons at best loosely understood, and meaningful. A key initiative in keeping true: Stebbins and Luke Carrol in a to spend years in England while she » [email protected] while you try to come to terms with the artists and theatre in the public eye, scene from Kylie Coolwell’s Battle of remains in Parramatta.

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Found Respect Family Decolonisation Clouds Found has some of the most Respect is the first title in Family, the second book in the If you want to know how to When the Peanuts gang are adorable cow drawings you’ll ever the “Our Place” series of “Our Place” series, is a simple be a good ally to Aboriginal lying looking at clouds, Linus see; their limpidly lashed eyes four children’s picture books story encapsulating an important and Torres Strait Islander sees the stoning of Stephen, the and big wet noses nuzzling you which welcome and introduce message about “listening to peoples, Living on Stolen Land, Apostle Paul, and the painter from the page. Blue Mountains children to important elements Aunties, Uncles, Elders and is the perfect primer. Ambelin and sculptor Thomas Eakin. artist, and descendant of the of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Ancestors,” and finding a place Kwaymullina, writer, illustrator When Lucy asks Charlie Brown Bundjalung people, Charmaine Islander culture. It has a quiet to belong. Fay Stewart-Muir’s and legal academic from the what he sees, he says, “I was Ledden-Lewis, has engaged grace that shimmers through and Sue Lawson’s text shows that Palyku people of the Pilbara going to say I saw a ducky and beautifully with Bruce Pascoe’s its red deserts and flowing families can be as different as the region of Western Australia, a horsie, but I changed my story of a calf who gets separated waters – luring readers to stars in the sky – but kinship can asks readers to challenge settler mind.” No pressure! In Happiness from his family. It seems her listen to Indigenous wisdom be humanity’s mainstay. Jasmine thoughts and behaviours relating is a Cloud Robert Vescio matriarchal lineage – “a living about how to treat people and Seymour’s touching illustrations to stolen lands, sovereignties, (author) and Nancy Bevington legacy of the Stolen Generation” the earth with courtesy and support the message that we all systemic bias and more. (illustrator) have captured the – helped her connect deeply with consideration. Lisa Kennedy’s need to learn how to honour the Kwaymullina says, “I hope my ups and downs of a young boy’s this delicate lost-and-found story. illustrations are luscious and deep currents that connect us. book helps people to make a emotional life, with Harry Writer, Bruce Pascoe, best known vivid – complementing Fay Seymour is a Darug woman who start, or to continue on their seeing flying pigs, a rhinoceros for Dark Emu, is of Tasmanian, Stewart-Muir’s and Sue Lawson’s wants everyone to know through journeys, towards a decolonised … and finally happiness. Read Bunurong and Yuin descent, pared back text. Stewart-Muir her books that the Darug mob Australia.” She writes: There are it outside with your kids and ask and this is his first children’s is a Boonwurrung Elder are still here and still strong. no trees / rivers / hills / stars / that them what they see and feel. picture book. Read it with your from south-east Victoria and were not / are not / someone’s kin. kids until the cows come home! Kennedy is a descendant of the coastal Trawlwoolway people of north-east Tasmania. JUNE 2020 COMMUNITY NOTICES 11

VOLUNTEERS’ NEWS Uniting Churches PAT CLARKE the old Marrickville Library in We need each other now, Hooray, it’s spring! the basement of Marrickville Isn’t it lovely to see all the Town Hall, and then to the new flowers and trees in bloom, and Library and Pavilion, prior to the more than ever. for the days to be getting a bit Covid-19 lockdown and closures. longer and warmer. It’s a pity I When the Library reopened, I South Sydney Uniting Church keep forgetting to plant my seeds was informed that the SSH was 56a Raglan St, Waterloo for a spring showing. no longer welcome at the Library, Public worship suspended One way to enjoy the outburst as it was not relevant to the Follow @sundayssuc for prayers, of spring, besides looking at Inner West and its Council area. music and reflections your neighbour’s gardens, is to As you can imagine, I’m very Rev. Andrew Collis experience the Royal Botanic disappointed at such a narrow 0438 719 470 Gardens for an explosion of scent outlook, as there are now no www.southsydneyuniting.org.au longer any local papers for library and colour. Leichhardt Uniting Church users to take home. The Calyx in Bloom exhibit is 3 Wetherill St, Leichhardt a new display which explores (near Norton St, a world of colour and light in SSH Instagram Gallery free parking behind church) flowers, with over 20,000 plants Have you caught up with Public worship suspended on show. It is open daily from our Instagram Gallery, Revs Radhika & 10am to 4pm, and entry is by www.southsydneyherald.com.au? Adrian Sukumar-White donation. There is a very nice If you are a keen photographer, www.leichhardtuniting.org.au café, and you can explore further or would just love to see your the Garden Shop and purchase photo(s) in one of our issues, tag Mustard Seed Uniting Church plants from the Growing Friends your instagram pics #sshphotos Cnr Quarry St & Bulwara Rd, Plant Sales at the Nursery. Tours with a chance to be included in Ultimo with an Aboriginal guide are the best five photos each month. Public worship suspended available on Wednesdays, Fridays We love local photos here at the Rev. David Gore 0449 875 065 and Saturdays. Learn all about SSH. the Gardens and find a map at mustardseed.unitingchurch.org.au Newtown Mission www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au. Next Volunteers’ Meeting 280 King St Newtown September 5, from 2pm Public worship suspended This time last year we said This will be a Zoom meeting, Rev. Graeme Tutt a farewell to Tripod Café in and you can find details of how 9519 9000 Abercrombie Street, but in the to access the meeting: www.newtownmission.org.au last few months it has reopened www.southsydneyherald.com. for business as Eatz, with a au/subscribe. Paddington Uniting Church slightly different décor, but the 395 Oxford St, Paddington same good food and friendly Until next time, keep safe; Public worship suspended staff. We wish them and all our wear a mask if you can on public Rev. Danielle Hemsworth-Smith other local small businesses the transport and at the shops, Office 9331 2646 best of luck in these harder times. and other places where social www.paddingtonuca.org.au distancing isn’t possible. Pitt Street Uniting Church Marrickville Library 264 Pitt St, Sydney For a number of years now Pat Clarke Public worship suspended I’ve been delivering copies of Revs Karyn and Gareth the South Sydney Herald to [email protected] Burchell‑Thomas Office 9267 3614 www.pittstreetuniting.org.au Wayside Chapel Advertising in the South Sydney Herald shows 29 Hughes St, Potts Point you’re thinking about the community around you. REDWatch Public worship suspended (Please note that Wayside is That the people who have kept you going until now, REDWatch will meet 6pm Thursday September 3 to discuss: still open for those in need) matter. The Future of Eveleigh Pastor Jon Owen Office 9581 9100 To survive we need each other – let’s invest in Join via Zoom meeting – ID: 880 4767 1010 (Passcode: 133341) www.thewaysidechapel.com our community. or join by phone on 8015 6011. St Stephen’s Uniting Church If you want to be involved in this conversation but cannot participate online 197 Macquarie St, Sydney Explore our online and print advertising packages now: then contact Adam at [email protected] or phone 02 9698 9569. Public worship suspended Rev. Ken Day southsydneyherald.com.au/advertising The October REDWatch meeting is the Annual General Meeting with a focus on Office 9221 1688 broadening community involvement. www.ssms.org.au

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