Earlier in the year I was invited to help with a project with @la.di.da1970 and @sarah_collard_ with the guardian to contribute as part of a national story called "The Killing Codes"
Here is a small excerpt from the story - "It’s early morning in the Battye library in Perth, Western Australia, and we’re scrolling through microfilm pages of the diary of a prominent and powerful colonist called Major Logue. Logue kept the diary for 50 years, until his death in 1900. He wrote in it almost every day. Entries are written in looping script, sometimes neat and measured, other times messy and cramped. Pages are peppered with sketches of horses and faces, designs for a house, mud maps, lists of crops and stock. It’s all fairly mundane. Most entries simply recount the work done on the farm by Logue and his men: fences mended, potatoes planted, cattle lost and found."
I'm happy to announce that this story lead by at @la.di.da1970 has been nominated for a @thewalkleys Award. Which also is one of the first pieces of work that I have been apart of to be nominated for a Walkley!
The story based in the Midwest has always been told and shared in the community where I am from for as long as I remember. As apart of this also I had the opportunity to work with @georgesteelecrids on another piece for the state on massacres and truth telling and working this and navigating the settler and colonial mind set up why so much was trying to be kept under wraps or even twisted has been hugely confronting but nothing I will ever shy away from!
Thank you @guardianaustralia @la.di.da1970 and @sarah_collard_ for letting me apart of this and congratulations!
