March 5, 2017

MAKING NEWS: THE MEN’S TJILIRRA MOVEMENT

CASSE’s ground-breaking community psychoanalytic approach to Aboriginal mental health is achieving positive outcomes. The Men’s Tjilirra Movement (MTM), facilitated by CASSE and in collaboration with the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS), is leading cultural revival, changing minds and saving lives in the central western desert region of Australia. Ryan Liddle and the NITV team filmed a feature story about the inspiring men involved in this movement which premiered on 'Living Black' last week. Don't panic if you missed it - it will be replayed on Living Black on SBS on Monday 6th March at 5pm. Following is the story about the MTM which is published on the NITV website.
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October 28, 2016

Dear Antoinette

Australia has not been a country of master-slave, but a servile consciousness has been perpetuated by the declaration of Terra Nullius, of needing to grant citizenship and land rights and having corralled people into settlements, curfews and 'half-caste' regulations. Gary’s Letter to Antoinette is a very moving letter of remembrance, of deep apology and a wish to repair damage done from a man who grew up in Cape Town, South Africa.
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September 20, 2016

A week of pride, shame and hope in parliament

Last week Australia was presented with the Maiden Speeches of our new politicians. While often this time passes with little to cause more than a ripple, this week was different. There were waves of pride, followed by a tsunami of shame, followed by healing waves of hope.
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August 19, 2016

In memory of the Wave Hill Walk Off

This week marks the 50th Anniversary of the Wave Hill Walk Off. Many Australians may not know what the 'Wave Hill Walk Off' was, but many will know the name of Vincent Lingiari, who led the walk off, will have seen the photo of Gough Whitlam pouring sand through Lingiari's hand, and will have sung along to the Paul Kelly song 'From Little Things, Big Things Grow'.
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June 27, 2016

Save our Women!

By Pamela Nathan “Would Indigenous women and children feel safer if constitutional recognition, or even a treaty, eventuated in Australia?” asks Hannah McGlade in ‘The Australian’. And, […]
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June 1, 2016

Group overcomes violence

By Pamela Nathan Re: ‘The violent men who do change’, by Cosima Marriner, published in ‘The Age, 27 May, 2016.  Strong Evidence supporting the efficacy of […]
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April 5, 2016

The power of Politics to promote healing

By Pamela Nathan. Politics and healing are words that seldom share the same sentence, but in the past week there have been two discussions that had the potential to do just that...
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