Tribal Fires - Dumbartung
Tribal Fires is a podcast that will tell the stories of the Dumbartung Aboriginal corporations' 35-year history of working in the Bibbulmun Nyoongah community in the South West of Australia. These stories will tell of the cultural initiatives, interviews, and the political struggles that has challenged the survival of the organisation by attempted Government strategies to adversely attempt to cease the truth-telling and cultural empowerment of this crucial Aboriginal organisation.
Tribal Fires - Dumbartung
A Death Threat in the East Perth Lockup
Warning this episode has a high content of racial vilification.
During the early 1990’s I was appointed as the spokesperson for the newly developed Aboriginal Visitors scheme.
This scheme was one of the recommendations from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody.
The story tells of an incident whilst I was visiting a young Aboriginal man in the East Perth Lockup, I was racially vilified and threatened by a Detective Sgt of the Western Australian Vice Squad whilst carrying out my duties. The story also recapture’s the police harassment on my family during the early years of the political activism of Dumbartung.
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