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The first crowdsourcing campaign that caught my attention was in about January 2015. It was for the Food Justice Truck at the Asylum Seeker resource Centre in Footscray. The centre exists to support people seeking asylum in Australia and who have lost many of the rights that we all take for granted. An example is… Read more

This blog is a reflection about the social media game “Fortnite” and the gaming habits of professional athletes and in particular, my cousin a young and brilliant athlete! The game “Fortnite” is described as “a survival game where 100 players fight against each other in player versus player combat to be the last one standing.”… Read more

For this blog I am speaking about Aboriginal people living in remote communities’ called homelands and how social media has improved their health outcomes. I was lucky enough to live in Mparntwe (Alice Springs) for over 8 years during the 1980’s – 1990’s. Such a beautiful and culturally alive place, the MacDonell Ranges, the striking… Read more

In the recent survey “Social Media Mob: Being Indigenous Online” which has been previously sited in these blogs, 88 per cent of the Aboriginal survey respondents have seen or experienced racism towards Indigenous people while on social media. Coupled with the reported high usage and Indigenous people more than ever before networking and communicating online… Read more

As stated in my previous blog Indigenous Australian are increasingly using social media at a rate higher than non-Indigenous Australians (Carlson B & Frazer R, 2018). As an Aboriginal woman I use it to connect to my Ngarrindjeri mob via a Facebook page called Ngarrindjeri and Proud. We share and maintain traditional knowledge, Lore and… Read more

From my perspective, a proud Ngarrindjeri woman, I believe Australia has a black and cruel history. The impact of invasion and colonialisation on the Indigenous people of this land has resulted in severed cultural practices, the dispossession of land, inter-generational trauma, forced removal of children, disproportionate rates of criminalisation and incarceration, economic exclusion and poverty… Read more