Stan Grant
Stan Grant is broadcaster and the vice-chancellor's chair of Australian/Indigenous Belonging at Charles Sturt University.
The lessons Stan Grant hopes to pass onto his sons
“Too often I wasn’t there. I missed a lot but I had a job to do. And you will have your jobs to do and you will make your choices and live with your regrets.”
- by Stan Grant
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Best Games ever
On that night, Cathy Freeman gave us more than gold
I was there in the Sydney Olympic Stadium on that cool evening. Me and 112,000 others, all crammed in to watch Cathy Freeman carry the hopes of an entire nation.
- by Stan Grant
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Floyd protests
When I look at America torn apart, I see my own family and Australia's history of racism
Justice cannot be colour-blind, but we are not America and our streets, thankfully, are not battlegrounds.
- by Stan Grant
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History
Between the ship and the shore: The Captain James Cook I know
It is hard to be Australian in weeks like this, when Australia remembers its glorious Captain Cook.
- by Stan Grant
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Adam Goodes
Indigenous Australians must tell the truth, so don't ask us for fairytales
It's time to hear some hard truths, writes the maker of The Australian Dream, the documentary that confronts the racist treatment of Adam Goodes
- by Stan Grant
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Indigenous
I don’t want my rights shackled to appeasing conservatives
To those who worry the recent High Court decision will be misused by opponents of constitutional recognition, I say it is better to aim high and raise Australia with us.
- by Stan Grant
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Journey from the heart
Our politicians have shown themselves too small for this task
The idea of Australia isn’t big enough - but it can be enlarged.
- by Stan Grant
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Indigenous
'Terra nullius is a lie': the brutal denial of First Peoples' humanity
The Australian Dream is a film about us, about our nation; a nation founded on an idea that the Indigenous people of this continent were invisible.
- by Stan Grant
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Journey from the heart
Ken Wyatt, a man in the crosshairs of history
The Minister for Indigenous Australians is attempting to defy history - again. It's looking like a forlorn hope, but he's invoking the triumph of 1967.
- by Stan Grant
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Hong Kong protests
People power will test Xi Jinping, but he can wait it out
Hopes the Hong Kong protests will light the spark of democracy in China are liberal fantasies.
- by Stan Grant
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Journey from the heart
My friend fears for the Uluru Statement under Morrison - but I don't
Indigenous leadership will have to reframe the argument for recognition, rights and justice.
- by Stan Grant
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