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We certainly don’t have all the answers, and everyone’s experience of MND can be radically different. Listening to a webinar with Dr Bedlack recently, I learned that there are at least 40 subtypes of MND.

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Collective obligation

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On Wednesday 15 July 2026, Natalie Siegel-Brown gave a National Press Club address. It can be viewed in full here. She asked the simple question of whether Australia is funding independence or decline through the 1 Novem...

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Today, many of us use it as a way of saying “thank you”. Like many Aboriginal words, its meaning has shifted over time as our languages have adapted to living alongside English worldviews.

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Earlier this year I met a man (who I do remember having met before) who told me he reads all my blogs. I laughed and said, \"They're usually a cathartic exercise.\"

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On National Sorry Day this year, I delivered the keynote on my Country as a Baramadagal woman of the Darug-speaking peoples through the Reid Goldspink family.

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On ANZAC Day, we’re told to remember sacrifice and loss. It is a day framed by reverence; early morning services, quiet reflection, medals worn close to the chest, stories passed down across generations.

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An update, all in the course of a week...

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I am writing this blog on 13 April 2026 on unceded Wiradjuri lands as a Baramadagal woman of the Darug speaking peoples with unceded sovereignty. In addition to this, I am 'Australian' in that I have Anglo-celtic heritag...

","url":"https://jaynechristian.com/2025-dici-60ans%3A-relayer/f/from-the-river-to-the-sea---still-legal-here-for-now-anyway","title":"From the River to the Sea - Still \"legal\" here, for now anyway","summary":"I am writing this blog on 13 April 2026 on unceded Wiradjuri lands as a Baramadagal woman of the Darug speaking peoples with unceded sovereignty. In addition to this, I am 'Australian' in that I have Anglo-celtic heritag...","date_modified":"2026-04-12T07:16:40Z"},{"id":"https://jaynechristian.com/2025-dici-60ans%3A-relayer/f/on-the-record-what-it-takes-to-counter-right-wing-extremism","html_content":"

Last month, I provided submissions and gave evidence to the NSW Parliament as part of the inquiry into measures to combat right-wing extremism.

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Today, I lodged an appeal with the Administrative Review Tribunal. I did not pay the fee.

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The last six weeks have been a rough trot for us.

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Are settlers finally embracing the fact that they are not originally from here?\nOr are they embracing something else entirely, a romanticised idea of “settlement” that avoids law, history, and responsibility?

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Living Inside the Revelation

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My mother is an Aboriginal woman living with Motor Neurone Disease (MND), a non-curable, progressive neurological condition in a regional town where rates of MND are seven times higher than the national average. It is a ...

","url":"https://jaynechristian.com/2025-dici-60ans%3A-relayer/f/christmas-is-coming-faster-than-priority-care-for-mnd","title":"Christmas Is Coming Faster Than... Priority Care for MND","summary":"My mother is an Aboriginal woman living with Motor Neurone Disease (MND), a non-curable, progressive neurological condition in a regional town where rates of MND are seven times higher than the national average. It is a ...","date_modified":"2025-12-23T15:16:55Z"},{"id":"https://jaynechristian.com/2025-dici-60ans%3A-relayer/f/a-week-of-mourning-with-amnesia-when-grief-is-used-to-erase-us","html_content":"

A week has passed since the Bondi attack targeting a Jewish Chanukah gathering on the beach. Out of respect for the victims, many people restrained broader commentary, joined calls for peace, vigils for community grief, ...

","url":"https://jaynechristian.com/2025-dici-60ans%3A-relayer/f/a-week-of-mourning-with-amnesia-when-grief-is-used-to-erase-us","title":"A Week of Mourning With Amnesia: When Grief Is Used to Erase Us","summary":"A week has passed since the Bondi attack targeting a Jewish Chanukah gathering on the beach. Out of respect for the victims, many people restrained broader commentary, joined calls for peace, vigils for community grief, ...","date_modified":"2025-12-21T13:17:40Z"},{"id":"https://jaynechristian.com/2025-dici-60ans%3A-relayer/f/humanity-heroism-and-the-right-to-safety","html_content":"

Honouring grief, refusing collective blame, and choosing care in the first 24 hours

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A few weeks ago, I wrote about aged care “reform” under the themes Computer Says No and Calculator Says Pay Up, describing the widening gap between what the policy promises and what families actually experience. Since th...

","url":"https://jaynechristian.com/2025-dici-60ans%3A-relayer/f/an-update-aged-care-mnd-in-the-riverina-and-bureaucracy","title":"An Update: Aged Care, MND in the Riverina and Bureaucracy","summary":"A few weeks ago, I wrote about aged care “reform” under the themes Computer Says No and Calculator Says Pay Up, describing the widening gap between what the policy promises and what families actually experience. Since th...","date_modified":"2025-12-04T10:46:17Z"},{"id":"https://jaynechristian.com/2025-dici-60ans%3A-relayer/f/aged-care-price-hikes-arent-the-shock-msm-make-them-out-to-be","html_content":"

Okay, since writing my Blog yesterday as a cathartic exercise, based on the Objection letter to a re-assessment refusal I had spent a good part of the day preparing, I went down several rabbit-holes on what others were s...

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When the government announced 40,000 new Home Care Packages earlier this year, the headlines sounded triumphant. But as Jim Moraitis from VillageLocal bluntly wrote in his blog, “With over 200,000 people on the waitlist,...

","url":"https://jaynechristian.com/2025-dici-60ans%3A-relayer/f/more-packages-less-care-how-reform-missed-the-point","title":"More Packages, Less Care: How Reform Missed the Point","summary":"When the government announced 40,000 new Home Care Packages earlier this year, the headlines sounded triumphant. But as Jim Moraitis from VillageLocal bluntly wrote in his blog, “With over 200,000 people on the waitlist,...","date_modified":"2025-11-14T06:54:42Z"},{"id":"https://jaynechristian.com/2025-dici-60ans%3A-relayer/f/iwc-2025-across-land-and-lineages-decolonising-mental-health","html_content":"

At the Indigenous Wellbeing Conference in Meanjin / Magandjin, over 21 - 22 October 2025, I had the honour of co-presenting with two extraordinary people; Ziyad Serhan, CEO of educAID, and Assala Sayara, founder of Hawey...

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Everyone one is talking about it...

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While ordinary people around the world risk their safety and lives to intervene in the face of seemingly unending atrocity, Australia’s Prime Minister continues to drift through a political daydream, built on diplomatic ...

","url":"https://jaynechristian.com/2025-dici-60ans%3A-relayer/f/as-humanity-acts-with-courage-albo-asleep-in-political-daydream","title":"As Humanity Acts with Courage, Albo Asleep in Political Daydream","summary":"While ordinary people around the world risk their safety and lives to intervene in the face of seemingly unending atrocity, Australia’s Prime Minister continues to drift through a political daydream, built on diplomatic ...","date_modified":"2025-10-05T11:13:11Z"},{"id":"https://jaynechristian.com/2025-dici-60ans%3A-relayer/f/nsw-lalcs-an-increasingly-irrelevant-tool-of-the-settler-colony","html_content":"

A recent media release from the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council (MLALC), posted on Facebook (bless!) and \"liked\" by other LALCs and LALC-lovers, has caused some confusion, triggered some frustration, but also ...

","url":"https://jaynechristian.com/2025-dici-60ans%3A-relayer/f/nsw-lalcs-an-increasingly-irrelevant-tool-of-the-settler-colony","title":"NSW LALCs: An increasingly irrelevant tool of the Settler Colony","summary":"A recent media release from the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council (MLALC), posted on Facebook (bless!) and \"liked\" by other LALCs and LALC-lovers, has caused some confusion, triggered some frustration, but also ...","date_modified":"2025-09-11T14:44:12Z"},{"id":"https://jaynechristian.com/2025-dici-60ans%3A-relayer/f/settler-behaviour-bingo-how-our-time-gets-wasted","html_content":"

There’s a certain type of settler behaviour that isn’t about open hostility or deliberate exclusion. It’s quieter, sneakier, and often comes wrapped in good intentions. On the surface, it looks like support. Underneath, ...

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Yesterday, hundreds of thousands of people marched across the Sydney Harbour Bridge for Palestine in the March for Humanity. The scale was moving.

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I came across a headline this morning from the Sydney Morning Herald about Palestine, one of many that circulate right now... in a new trend. It struck me how easily the public can be misled into thinking we’re moving to...

","url":"https://jaynechristian.com/2025-dici-60ans%3A-relayer/f/smoke-and-mirrors-the-dangerous-comfort-of-a-%E2%80%9Ctwo-state-solution","title":"Smoke and Mirrors: The Dangerous Comfort of \"Two-State Solution\"","summary":"I came across a headline this morning from the Sydney Morning Herald about Palestine, one of many that circulate right now... in a new trend. It struck me how easily the public can be misled into thinking we’re moving to...","date_modified":"2025-07-30T01:31:34Z"},{"id":"https://jaynechristian.com/2025-dici-60ans%3A-relayer/f/why-now-starvation-silence-and-the-21-month-wait-to-speak-up","html_content":"

I haven’t written much since I got back from Paris. It’s been a couple of months. But things haven’t gone quiet, they’ve just gotten heavier. The weight of what’s happening in Palestine is crushing, and the weight of peo...

","url":"https://jaynechristian.com/2025-dici-60ans%3A-relayer/f/why-now-starvation-silence-and-the-21-month-wait-to-speak-up","title":"Why Now? Starvation, Silence, and the 21-Month Wait To Speak-Up","summary":"I haven’t written much since I got back from Paris. It’s been a couple of months. But things haven’t gone quiet, they’ve just gotten heavier. The weight of what’s happening in Palestine is crushing, and the weight of peo...","date_modified":"2025-07-27T13:05:12Z"},{"id":"https://jaynechristian.com/2025-dici-60ans%3A-relayer/f/policy-with-soul-a-blak-take-on-ahpra%E2%80%99s-anti-racism-commitment","html_content":"

Just over a week ago I was standing at Gate 87 at the Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, in line to board a flight home when a notification popped up on my phone, giving due credit to Professor Yin Paradies for his work on...

","url":"https://jaynechristian.com/2025-dici-60ans%3A-relayer/f/policy-with-soul-a-blak-take-on-ahpra%E2%80%99s-anti-racism-commitment","title":"Policy with Soul: A Blak-take on Ahpra’s Anti-Racism Commitment","summary":"Just over a week ago I was standing at Gate 87 at the Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, in line to board a flight home when a notification popped up on my phone, giving due credit to Professor Yin Paradies for his work on...","date_modified":"2025-05-29T08:29:49Z"},{"id":"https://jaynechristian.com/2025-dici-60ans%3A-relayer/f/reconciliation-is-a-red-herring-when-genocide-continues","html_content":"

It’s the 27th of May, one day after National Sorry Day and the start of another annual Reconciliation Week.

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The Poetics of Tasting event held on 13 May 2025, was both an intimate and political act: the sharing of stories and food.

","url":"https://jaynechristian.com/2025-dici-60ans%3A-relayer/f/a-reflection-on-recipes-as-archival-resistance-radical-care","title":"A Reflection on Recipes as Archival Resistance & Radical Care","summary":"The Poetics of Tasting event held on 13 May 2025, was both an intimate and political act: the sharing of stories and food.","date_modified":"2025-05-14T20:20:17Z"},{"id":"https://jaynechristian.com/2025-dici-60ans%3A-relayer/f/meeting-ailton-krenak-in-paris-river-wisdom-to-action-now","html_content":"

On 4 May in Paris, I had the rare opportunity to hear Ailton Krenak speak. The auditorium was full, every seat taken, with two mezzanine levels above also filled with people looking down toward him.

","url":"https://jaynechristian.com/2025-dici-60ans%3A-relayer/f/meeting-ailton-krenak-in-paris-river-wisdom-to-action-now","title":"Meeting Ailton Krenak in Paris: River Wisdom to Action Now ","summary":"On 4 May in Paris, I had the rare opportunity to hear Ailton Krenak speak. The auditorium was full, every seat taken, with two mezzanine levels above also filled with people looking down toward him.","date_modified":"2025-05-06T16:39:31Z"},{"id":"https://jaynechristian.com/2025-dici-60ans%3A-relayer/f/indigenous-arts-vectors-of-emancipation-healing","html_content":"

Reclaiming Space Through Story and Practice

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On 26 April 2025, I had the privilege of sharing lunch and conversation with four powerful Indigenous community leaders, before hearing them speak at a panel discussion titled “Crossing Indigenous Perspectives: France x ...

","url":"https://jaynechristian.com/2025-dici-60ans%3A-relayer/f/crossing-indigenous-perspectives-france-x-brazil-%E2%80%93-a-reflection","title":"Crossing Indigenous Dialogues: France x Brazil – A Reflection","summary":"On 26 April 2025, I had the privilege of sharing lunch and conversation with four powerful Indigenous community leaders, before hearing them speak at a panel discussion titled “Crossing Indigenous Perspectives: France x ...","date_modified":"2025-05-01T22:16:31Z"},{"id":"https://jaynechristian.com/2025-dici-60ans%3A-relayer/f/reckoning-with-white-imaginings-of-%E2%80%9Cterrorism-and-resistance","html_content":"

There have been a number of events and societal behaviours that have been permeating my thoughts over the last 18 months, but more sharply in recent months and days relating to the Australian form of fear-mongering.

","url":"https://jaynechristian.com/2025-dici-60ans%3A-relayer/f/reckoning-with-white-imaginings-of-%E2%80%9Cterrorism-and-resistance","title":"Reckoning with white imaginings of “Terrorism\" and \"Resistance\"","summary":"There have been a number of events and societal behaviours that have been permeating my thoughts over the last 18 months, but more sharply in recent months and days relating to the Australian form of fear-mongering.","date_modified":"2025-04-27T16:01:07Z"},{"id":"https://jaynechristian.com/2025-dici-60ans%3A-relayer/f/why-i-don%E2%80%99t-call-myself-an-artist-well-most-of-the-time","html_content":"

While many embrace the title of \"artist\", I accept the title when given to me, but find a deeper resonance with the term \"cultural practitioner\".

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The collaborative exhibition “60 Years From Now: Relayer” at the Cité Internationale Des Arts in Paris opened yesterday, and will be running until 12 July 2025.

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This week has felt particularly heavy. At the beginning of the week, Palestinian journalist Hossam Shabbat was killed by Israel. He knew this was coming; his name had been on a hit list for months. He even had a statemen...

","url":"https://jaynechristian.com/2025-dici-60ans%3A-relayer/f/a-week-of-silence-and-violence-australian-politics-and-palestine","title":"A Week of Silence and Violence: Australian politics and Palestine","summary":"This week has felt particularly heavy. At the beginning of the week, Palestinian journalist Hossam Shabbat was killed by Israel. He knew this was coming; his name had been on a hit list for months. He even had a statemen...","date_modified":"2025-03-28T14:39:28Z"},{"id":"https://jaynechristian.com/2025-dici-60ans%3A-relayer/f/wander-wisely-jaynes-top-ten-travel-tips","html_content":"

I first caught a plane when I was 18 years old from Wiradjuri to Dharug Country (Wagga to Sydney), and first left the Continent to go to Aotearoa (New Zealand) when I was 21, since then I have gone on to travel through K...

","url":"https://jaynechristian.com/2025-dici-60ans%3A-relayer/f/wander-wisely-jaynes-top-ten-travel-tips","title":"Wander Wisely: Jayne's top ten travel tips!","summary":"I first caught a plane when I was 18 years old from Wiradjuri to Dharug Country (Wagga to Sydney), and first left the Continent to go to Aotearoa (New Zealand) when I was 21, since then I have gone on to travel through K...","date_modified":"2025-03-25T11:55:50Z"},{"id":"https://jaynechristian.com/2025-dici-60ans%3A-relayer/f/solidarity-paris-with-palestine-and-how-you-can-act-from-home","html_content":"

On March 22 2025, a crowd of up to approximately 10,000 people, gathered in Paris to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people, advocating for justice and an end to the ongoing genocide, which never stopped, and ha...

","url":"https://jaynechristian.com/2025-dici-60ans%3A-relayer/f/solidarity-paris-with-palestine-and-how-you-can-act-from-home","title":"Solidarity: Paris with Palestine, and how you can act from home","summary":"On March 22 2025, a crowd of up to approximately 10,000 people, gathered in Paris to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people, advocating for justice and an end to the ongoing genocide, which never stopped, and ha...","date_modified":"2025-03-23T20:58:27Z"},{"id":"https://jaynechristian.com/2025-dici-60ans%3A-relayer/f/weaving-resilience-holding-space-a-reflection-from-the-cit%C3%A9","html_content":"

I arrived in Paris on the 4th of March, stepping into a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts that will carry me through to the end of April 2025. This time, this place, it holds weight.

","url":"https://jaynechristian.com/2025-dici-60ans%3A-relayer/f/weaving-resilience-holding-space-a-reflection-from-the-cit%C3%A9","title":"Weaving Resilience, Holding Space: A Reflection from the Cité","summary":"I arrived in Paris on the 4th of March, stepping into a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts that will carry me through to the end of April 2025. This time, this place, it holds weight.","date_modified":"2025-03-14T18:29:37Z"},{"id":"https://jaynechristian.com/2025-dici-60ans%3A-relayer/f/the-national-anti-racism-symposium","html_content":"

From someone who was actually there

","url":"https://jaynechristian.com/2025-dici-60ans%3A-relayer/f/the-national-anti-racism-symposium","title":"The National Anti-Racism Symposium ","summary":"From someone who was actually there ","date_modified":"2025-02-04T15:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://jaynechristian.com/2025-dici-60ans%3A-relayer/f/tales-of-a-homeland","html_content":"

On 7 September 2024, the annual Tales of a Homeland play performed at Bankstown (Dharug Country), being a fundraiser for the Palestinian Australian New Zealand Medical Association (PANZMA)

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I originally wrote this piece on 1 July 2024, as a guest author for the National Indigenous Times (NIT). It was published as a blog on 20 July, and as an online article by NIT on 5 August 2024.

","url":"https://jaynechristian.com/2025-dici-60ans%3A-relayer/f/wagga-wagga-joins-in-solidarity-with-palestine","title":"Wagga Wagga joins in Solidarity with Palestine","summary":"I originally wrote this piece on 1 July 2024, as a guest author for the National Indigenous Times (NIT). It was published as a blog on 20 July, and as an online article by NIT on 5 August 2024.","date_modified":"2024-07-20T02:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://jaynechristian.com/2025-dici-60ans%3A-relayer/f/support-for-palestine-in-wagga-wagga","html_content":"

All photos courtesy of Sundays for Peace organisers

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On 5 May I visited upon the encampment set up by students at the University of Sydney to show support.

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On 4 May 2024, I attended the Cultural-Cultural Youth Summit on the invitation of the Gallipoli i-Youth Centre and the Somali Muslim Association.

","url":"https://jaynechristian.com/2025-dici-60ans%3A-relayer/f/cross-cultural-youth-summit","title":"Cross-Cultural Youth Summit ","summary":"On 4 May 2024, I attended the Cultural-Cultural Youth Summit on the invitation of the Gallipoli i-Youth Centre and the Somali Muslim Association.","date_modified":"2024-05-21T01:29:51Z"},{"id":"https://jaynechristian.com/2025-dici-60ans%3A-relayer/f/first-nations-strategy-launch-for-city-of-parramatta","html_content":"

On 2 May 2024 at the launch of the inaugural City of Parramatta launched its First Nations Strategy.

","url":"https://jaynechristian.com/2025-dici-60ans%3A-relayer/f/first-nations-strategy-launch-for-city-of-parramatta","title":"First Nations Strategy Launch for City of Parramatta","summary":"On 2 May 2024 at the launch of the inaugural City of Parramatta launched its First Nations Strategy.","date_modified":"2024-05-01T19:00:00Z"}]}