Every 10 minutes, Australians throw away 15 tonnes of fashion waste on the planet. This amounts to 800,000 tons per individual a year. With the increase in buying and producing fashion products, about 148 million tonnes of fashion waste is expected by 2030. This is fuelled by a relentless pursuit of up-to-datedness but is being…
Month: February 2023
Wasted
Featured February 25th 2023 • Jaya Prisco • Suleiman Thomas •Saphire Gaskas • Anna Royals • Dress by Eudeamonnia The product pride and artistry And craftsmanship that used to be Are vanishing before our eyes As trash today’s consumer buys. Creations that are works of art In modern commerce have no part. To businesses their sole concern Is how much profit will it…
Tedx Talks- Systemic Racism: Australia’s great white silence | Jonathan Sri
Racism is more entrenched and systemic than most of us realise. Using a range of practical case studies, Jonathan shows how Australia’s white supremacist history continues to influence present-day political, legal and cultural institutions. Mainstream conversations about racism too often focus on overt bigotry, rather than covert structural oppression. The deeper issues are ignored and…
First Nations and Torres Strait Islanders’ rights
During the 90’s and leading into the early 2000’s, there was a society wide expectation that racism was largely over. Although many forms of explicit racism had vanished from the primary social view, racism still occurred and occurs in the realms where its most damaging effects manifested; economic and cultural. The banishing of explicit iconographic racism should be seen…
Always was, Always will be
Featured January 26th 2023 • Jaya Prisco • Alain Pottier • Joey • Violet Spencer • IIluka • • Dress & jewellery by Paul McCann We see the land, we see inside, our dreams show the light that you tried to hide. The rain has gone, trees are on fire, the Black Cockatoo is lost to the choir. Our blood runs through rivers, our…