by Stella Coram | Apr 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
In 1975 the Waitangi Tribunal Act was passed in 1975 in Aotearoa-New Zealand. The Act meant that Maori could claim grievance with the Crown for the loss of their land and seek reparation accordingly. In the Rangitikei district of the North Island district is land...
by Stella Coram | Apr 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
It has been a tough 2020 for everyone so far and it’s not over yet. Having to undergo 14 day isolation following a weekend trip to New Zealand I watched aghast as federal and state leaders twisted themselves in knots trying to avoid any hint of having to take...
by Stella Coram | Feb 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
In January 2020, a couple in the Victorian country town of Beulah raised a flag bearing the swastika on their property citing German ancestry. The response from Council was insipid with all manner of excuses offered to explain why no action could be taken to have the...
by Stella Coram | Feb 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
Following on from an earlier post, To the Manor Born, in which I outline my theory of descent for ancestor John Gotty to the ‘father’ of Germany, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, I present a pictorial representation of Gotty. There are some intriguing...
by Stella Coram | Dec 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
This post continues from previous posts examining the silences and contradictions of free speech. It is claimed that speech without consideration of its intended audience is no speech at all and that there are consequences for diminishing the importance of freedom of...
by Stella Coram | Nov 30, 2019 | Uncategorized
The Weekend Australian commentator, Janet Albrechtsen, published a piece (November 22-3, 2019) criticising the artist Will.i.am for suggesting that a flight attendant racially abused him on a recent Qantas flight in Australia. In my view, her criticism overreaches and...
by Stella Coram | Sep 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
The celebrated author Lionel Shriver is back in Australia doing her best to take down the hallmarks of what she sees as misguided leftist ideology such as white privilege, identity politics, cultural appropriation, and the relevance of race among other things. She...
by Stella Coram | Aug 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
An important ongoing issue within Australian media discourse is the debate surrounding the booing of indigenous athlete Adam Goodes during the 2015 Australian Football Rules (AFL) season. The view that the booing amounted to the racialization of Goodes is summarily...
by Stella Coram | Aug 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
I have been travelling through Europe and the UK for the past four months so my return to the desk is long overdue. Having returned to Australia there is a lot going on that I find unsettling. So, for this post I have decided to have a crack at unpicking the...
by Stella Coram | Feb 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
A recent spat on daytime television in Australia pitted conservative Kerri-Anne Kennerley with activist Yumi Stynes on the politics of protest within indigenous affairs thereby raising the question of what is mean by race, racism, and the ‘racist’. My view...
