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'‘A Living Burial’: Inside the Hiawatha Asylum for Insane Indians' by David...
Sharing Culture Advisor David Walker has been researching and writing an intriguing series of articles on the terribly bad way the mental health system has treated Native Indians in America. Here's...
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‘Psychiatry Gone Astray’ by Professor Peter Goetsche
Some of you will know I spent 25 years as a neuroscientist in the long initial stage of my career, researching chemicals (in particular dopamine) in the brain. I left the field because I realised that...
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Remembering My Special Trip to the Northern Territory
The year is drawing to an end and I’ve been reflecting on the good things that I have experienced over the months, and on the things that I have learnt. In fact, my work year ends sooner than most of...
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'What the final hours of Ms Dhu's life tell us about our broken justice...
'It's a well-established fact that rather than feeling protected by the police, a lot of Aboriginal people feel unsafe, threatened and vulnerable in their presence. When we hear that Aboriginal...
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Given that we are approaching the year's end - or at least my holiday in the UK - I thought I'd show of some of my blog highlights of the year. Some will be my favourites, others will be yours (as...
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Amnesty International Report (2011): Aboriginal Peoples’ right to homelands
Here's the second of my blog highlights of the year, which appeared a day after the first one on March 18th. It had 364 Likes."Let me assure anybody who cares for the Aboriginal people of Australia...
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Sharing Culture: 12 Ways To Facilitate Healing
The third of my classic blogs from this year, one focused on the ways that can facilitate the healing of Indigenous healing. I wrote this article on 11th August. I believe In the past week, I've been...
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'Medical professionals promote alternative healing' by Natalie Hand
This is an initiative in which Sharing Culture Advisor Matt Erb and his wife Noshene Ranjbar participated. This article appeared in the Lakota Times. 'A diverse group of volunteer medical...
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Relationships, Connection and Healing from Trauma
As we continue with my favourite blogs of the year, here is one about one of my favourite reads of the year. A book co-written by Sharing Culture Advisor Bruce Perry MD, PhD. This blog appeared on the...
View ArticleThe Hills of Kadjina - Remote WA Community
The Hills of Kadjina - Remote WA Community from Robbie McEwan on Vimeo. Here's one of my favourite films of the year, which I first posted on my blog of 1st May. I still love it! "In the Kimberley...
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The Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Part 1, Answering a Call from the...
This blog from May 5th received 1,500 Likes, in part due to it being linked to from the Facebook page of musician/ human rights activist Peter Gabriel.'This is the first of three articles about...
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'How To Hold Space Instead of Fixing People' by Dina Strada
Here's an interesting blog found in Elephant Journal, which is dedicated to a mindful life. 'I like to think of myself as a “fixer-upper.” I like to fix people. Or at least their problems.When I got...
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The Impact of Colonialism on a Young Aboriginal Australian
Here's one of the most Liked blogs on the website. I posted it on 20th October and it received over 1,100 Likes.Here is an excellent description of how colonialism impacted upon a young Aboriginal...
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Time for My Break… and Wishing You All Well
I’m heading off to the UK tomorrow to spend some quality time with my beautiful and much-missed children Annalie, Ben, Sam and Natasha. I’m very excited! It’s the first proper break I’ve had in two...
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'One woman's mission to photograph every Native American tribe in the US' by...
Matika Wilbur has traveled more than 250,000 miles to ensure stereotyped images are replaced with accurate ones to change history’s collective psyche.Three years ago, Matika Wilbur sold almost...
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'The Future of Mental Health: Deconstructing the Mental Disorder Paradigm' by...
Some of you will know that I feel strongly about the focus on biology in much of the psychiatry and mental health care systems. Emotional and mental distress are not diseases and drugs do more harm...
View ArticleIQ2 Racism Debate: Stan Grant
Is Australia really a multicultural safe haven of equal opportunity? Or is racism more prevalent than ever before? Stan Grant took to the stage for the last IQ2 debate of 2015. His speech is widely...
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'Saying sorry means you won’t do it again—fighting the ongoing Stolen...
'In December, activists travelled to Jigalong, a remote Aboriginal community in Western Australia that is crying out for help to stop the Department of Child Protection forcibly removing their...
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'The World’s Most Popular Website Just Ripped The Rug Out From Under...
In a stunning departure from convention, today’s ‘Google Doodle’ – the picture that adorns the Google logo, and changes based on the significance of the day - has delivered what surely must be the...
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'Betrayal by Labels: The Feebleminded, ADHD Native Child' by David Walker PhD
Here is another excellent article focused on the way that Native Americans have been treated by white society by leading psychologist and Sharing Culture Advisor David Walker.'Diagnosing Native...
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