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All material is published on the understanding that it is copyright free, and Desi Australia accepts no liability for any subsequent copyright Magazine. issues. We also cannot accept responsibility for and do not endorse views expressed by the contributors. Download Our App JUNE I 2020 www.DesiAustralia.com 5 Community News | Sydney Systemic Racism Isn’t Just an American Problem. Here’s How To Be A Better Ally To Australian First Nations People Police brutality and systemic racism are not new to First Nations - by listening and confronting our own privilege we can become better allies to Black and Blak people here in Australia. by Shyamla This article was originally published on HuffPost Australia and republished with permission Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander readers should be aware that this article may contain the images and names of people who have passed away. Like most Australians, I felt outrage and heartbreak watching Derek Chauvin, a White Minneapolis Police Officer, end George Floyd’s life. It reminded me that Australia too has had its knee on the neck of First Nations peoples for more than 230 years. If we truly want to end police brutality against Black people we need to recognise and address the issues in our own back- yard, especially as we sift through articles filled with the words that Australians usu- ally sweep under the rug when it comes to First Nations (Systemic Racism, Discrimi- nation, White Supremacy, Oppression, Police Brutality, Deaths in Custody). When my father arrived in Australia in Performing Artists Shyamla & Mirrah Protesting at black Lives matter Rally 1969 during The White Australia Policy Download Our App JUNE I 2020 www.DesiAustralia.com 6 Community News | Sydney he was taught to view First Nations as custody of the police since the 1991 Royal dole bludging alcoholics taking undue Commission Into Aboriginal Deaths In advantage of the various benefits provided Custody and not one police officer has to them - the complete opposite of himself ever been charged for their crimes” - Kate as an upstanding, hard-working Indian. L Munro A government strategy to distract immi- “You are comfortable in the position grants from Australia’s shameful treatment you are in while we are uncomfortable in of First Nations. the position we have been put. We need to get comfortable with having uncomfort- I have come to learn that as a South able discussions and address the hard is- Asian Australian woman, much of my sues. The White Australia Policy only al- privilege has been gained at the expense lowed the whitest People Of Colour from of First Nations peoples. First and second other nations into the country and migrants generation Australians have much to re- have been conditioned to look down upon flect on and unlearn when it comes to First and fear us. Until you understand your Nations - that process starts with confront- privilege and the privilege of the people ing our privilege as a ‘model minority’ and who tell stories about us you can’t get an Angelina Hurley, see the art of Vernon how it’s allowed us to prosper and achieve accurate picture of what’s happening” - Ah Kee and Richard Bell, read poetry by ‘a better life’ in ‘The Lucky County’. It’s Boori Monty Pryor Evelyn Auraluen and Alison Whitaker” - also down to listening to First Nations Amy McQuire voices about how we can help at this time. Question Mainstream Media And Listen To First Educate Yourself On Aus- I reached out to four First Nations Nations Voices tralia’s True History friends and former colleagues from when “Don’t justify what you say by listening “This place is stolen and the successive I worked at the NSW Aboriginal Land to other people and the media. Do your Governments (mainly Liberal/Conserva- Council to ask how to be a better ally. own work to look, learn and listen before tive) are systematically plotting the demise making assumptions about us. I have of First Nations peoples. The Supreme Here’s what Amy McQuire (Darumbal never been on the dole in my life and my Court is an elite white ‘Mens Club’ that and South Sea Islander Journalist), Boori parents worked for many years without thwarts ANY attempt of opposition at the Monty Pryor (Birri-gubba & Kunggandji ever getting paid. Learn more through the end of the day. Storyteller, Author & Elder), Blak Douglas right avenues and don’t make your deci- (Dhungatti Artist) and Kate L Munro sion by listening to the likes of Andrew Be a better ally by LISTENING and (Gamilaroi Journalist) had to say: Bolt - it’s just rhetoric and vitriol. - Boori becoming better informed. First Nations Monty Pryor peoples from this continent are living Confront Your Own Privi- within a continuum of cultural genocide. lege And The Impact of White people writing about Black peo- It’s as easy as Googling nowadays... Silence ple is like me writing a book on pregnancy try- ′the history of Aboriginal protests in “Non-Indigenous people - whether - I can never understand that experience. Australia.’” - Blak Douglas People Of Colour or White - are benefiting Similarly, you can’t know what it’s like from the theft of Aboriginal land and the to be chained and beaten up, have a gun “You live and breathe on this land so violence perpetrated against us. It can be stuck in your mouth, be spat and pissed on take the time to understand the true history an uncomfortable thing to face but under- - let us tell our own stories”Boori Monty of First Australians. Watch First Austral- standing that helps build the foundation Pryor ians on SBS (note the first ep title They for solidarity” - Amy McQuire Have Come To Stay) then put yourself in “Avoid misinformation by access- our shoes and consider the immense flow- “Apathy by others over the years has ing First Nations writing, art, film and on effects of trauma and dispossession on allowed police brutality towards Black music. Aboriginal artists often work to our families and peoples. Learn the real and First Nations people across the world resist disparaging images, stereotypes history of the land you live on - it contains to continue almost unabated. The lives of and representations and we have so much anenergy that, once understood, has the 432 First Nations people in this country talent. Look up Melissa Lucashenko and power to heal attitudes, perceptions and have been taken at the hands of or in the Alexis Wright, listen to Chelsea Bond and minds and create a connection amongst Download Our App JUNE I 2020 www.DesiAustralia.com 7 Community News | Sydney “The strength of our culture is central to all of our fights.