NITV (SBS) Country
On his 82nd birthday Uncle Jim Everett Puralia Meenamatta was arrested for defending native forests in Lutruwita (Tasmania) from logging by Forestry Tasmania, reports NITV’s Rudi Maxwell. For Uncle Jim, asserting Palawa Law in Country was his birthday gift to the forest. 30/10/24
Hobart Mercury
It is clear the impacts of colonisation are neither resolved nor in the past, says Danielle Wood for The Mercury following Charles and Camilla’s tour of ‘Australia’. 25/10/24
Koori Mail
82-year-old Pakana Elder Jim Everett tells Koori Mail’s Jillian Mundy that the older he gets the more frantic he feels about what he can do to stop the destruction of his Country. 23/10/24
ABC Radio Hobart
On live radio, the morning after his arrest at Bradys Lake, JIm Everett tells ABC’s Leon Compton he’s prepared to go to gaol for the environment. 23/10/24