• The Edge
CitizenJ
http://edgeqld.org.au/contact/
  • Home
  • About
  • All Stories
  • Megastories
  • Behind The Scenes
  • Experiments Fund
  • For Media
  • Log In

Red Dust Entry Four: Kicking Up Dust

“This is how we do it,” Aunty Nandy would tell me, teaching me to make island scones or cook enough rice and yam for a horde of hungry dancers.

19 March 2014
by Jess Saxton in Blogs, Indigenous, Journalism, Multicultural, Music, Blogs, Red Dust, Rural / 15 Comments

Red Dust Entry Three: Sticky Fingers

It’s amazing, the confidence of these children to physically communicate with absolute strangers.

04 March 2014
by Jess Saxton in Community, Indigenous, Journalism, Blogs, Red Dust, Rural / 7 Comments

Red Dust Entry Two- Bright Skin and Sky Eyes

In the communities, you will hear people refer to themselves as black or white skinned. It’s generally not meant in a derogatory way, but simply as a straight-to-the-point way of speaking, common to the region.

25 February 2014
by Jess Saxton in Bits and pieces, Blogs, Indigenous, Journalism, Blogs, Red Dust / No Comments

Red Dust Entry One: Wet Season

In Queensland, it seems the further north you go, the slower things become. The people run on what we call ‘island time’.

18 February 2014
by Jess Saxton in Blogs, Community, Home Featured, Indigenous, Blogs, Red Dust, Rural / No Comments

Time for more than recognition

Nasuven Enares calls on the Australian Government to offer Australian South Sea Islanders the same benefits as Indigenous Australians, minus land rights.

15 August 2013
by Nasuven Enares in Australian South Sea Islander, Biographical, Community, Indigenous, Politics, Video / No Comments

The beauty of bush foods

Do you eat lilly pillies off hedges in the street? Or sprinkle lemon myrtle in your cooking?

12 August 2013
by Ursula Skjonnemand in Agriculture, Indigenous, Nature, News, Video / 6 Comments

150 years – survival

Dennis Bobongie talks about his family history of kidnap and slavery and how his grandfather’s will to survive led to cultural illiteracy.

05 August 2013
by Dennis Bobongie in Australian South Sea Islander, Indigenous, Video / No Comments

Reconciling a slavery past

Shennie Yasserie discovered her family’s slavery past when she found shackles in a cane shed.

29 July 2013
by Shennie Yasserie in Australian South Sea Islander, Indigenous, Video / No Comments

Found but teetering and still enigmatic

After an absence as a confirmed living presence for at least 101 years, the Night Parrot has granted us a sighting.

12 July 2013
by minh mcCloy in Indigenous, Nature, Rural, Science, Technology / 3 Comments

Winking at land rights: the 1982 Brisbane Commonwealth Games

It was to be the last day of September 1982 when the XII Commonwealth Games, ‘The Friendly Games’, bounded into town in the pouch of a giant plastic marsupial and put Brisbane at last on the proverbial map.

02 July 2013
by Damian West in Community, Feature stories, Indigenous, Politics / 12 Comments
123
Report an issue with this story
Add to this story

Partners

About Citizen J

CitizenJ is a pioneering new-media journalism project aimed at giving everyday people the platform to tell their stories and equipping citizen journalists with the credibility to make sure these stories are told well.

The program also aims to recognise libraries as a key part in the information services industry and to explore their potential for generating, supporting and preserving commentary on issues of significance to society.

The program is broadly grouped into three streams; a newsroom, an experimentation fund and a public program.

Read More...

Contact Us

News

  • Red Dust Entry Four: Kicking Up Dust
  • Red Dust Entry Three: Sticky Fingers
  • Parting words from the outgoing Newsroom Coordinator
  • Red Dust Entry Two- Bright Skin and Sky Eyes
  • How to correctly expose your photographs

Menu

  • Home
  • About
  • All Stories
  • Megastories
  • Behind The Scenes
  • Experiments Fund
  • For Media
  • Log In
© The Edge (State Library of Queensland) 2013 | Stanley Place, Cultural Precinct South Brisbane Powered by WordPress