Still here
A research partnership with Inala Wangarra and Triple A, Still Here focuses on how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community organisations do much more than deliver services – they are sites of resistance to colonialism, ongoing struggle and emancipation.
A recipient of the AIATSIS Indigenous Research Exchange Grants, Still Here honours the political significance of the Queensland community-controlled sector. We trace its emergence in the 1970s and 1980s from the violence of the Protection Act and assimilation era in Queensland. By focusing on organisations with different profiles and locations around Queensland, Still Here captures how Indigenous sovereignty is exercised in highly localised and concrete ways (as theorised by Indigenous scholars Moreton-Robinson 2015, 2021; Watson 2014; Simpson 2014).
We also highlight the challenges faced by the sector, including defunding in favour of large mainstream organisations, racialised bureaucratic scrutiny and insecure funding. We learn from organisations how they navigate this environment to deliver outcomes for their communities and enact sovereignty, resistance and care.
Listen in to this five part podcast about Still Here.
Let’s Talk 2022, Episode 217
Still Here with Jyi Lawton,
Kevin Yow Yeh & Chelsea Watego
Let’s Talk 2022, Episode 218
Still Here with Kevin Yow Yeh
& Daniel Yasso
Let’s Talk 2022, Episode 219
Still Here with with Kevin Yow Yeh & Boe Spearim
Let’s Talk 2022, Episode 220
Still Here with with Kevin Yow Yeh & Karla Brady
Let’s Talk 2022, Episode 221
Still Here with Kevin Yow Yeh & Susan Thompson
Sample ‘Let’s Talk’ episodes from the Triple A archive.
Still Here is archiving over 1000 episodes of Triple A’s ‘Let’s Talk’. Listen on the Triple A website.
Let’s Talk, 20 July 2009
Tiga Bayles with guest Marc Newhouse: (Chair WA Deaths In Custody Watch Committee) 'Death of "Mr Ward"'
Let’s Talk, 19 September 2008
Tiga Bayles with guests Ron Unwin, Mary G & Josie Creek (Forensic Mental Health, Cairns QLD) 'Mental Health'
Let’s Talk, 18 December 2009
Tiga Bayles & Karen Dorante with guest Chris Graham (Former Editor NIT) 'The "Chocolate Frog" Awards'
Let’s Talk, 15 March 2010
Tiga Bayles with guests Duane Humacher (PhD Candidate Astronomy) & Chris Kavelin (Lecturer & Researcher Port Macquarie University & ANU) 'Aboriginal Astronomy and Protecting Indigenous Medicines'
Let’s Talk, 17 December 2010
Tiga Bayles with guest Chris Graham (Former Editor NIT) - '2010 Year in Review'
Sovereignty & community control posters
As part of Still Here, organisations discussed what sovereignty means to them and how they seek to express it everyday through community controlled ways of working.
