Jenny Fraser

Dr Jenny Fraser is a Migunburri Creative Researcher. Her poetry has been published with Yellow Arrow Journal (USA), IndigenousX, Rabbit Journal and in the anthology This country anytime anywhere by IAD Press. Jenny is a recipient of many Residency Programs including Varuna House and Apex Arts in New York City. She has also written for the Havana Biennale, NAICA (Native American Indigenous Cinema and Arts), Conundrum Magazine (Canada), SBS and others.

Articles by Jenny Fraser:

27 September 202323 November 2023 · Sport

When the sport circus comes on Country

Jenny Fraser

The next huckster in the carnival of sport is the upcoming 2032 Brisbane Olympic Games. If we want aspects of it to be in line with Aboriginal protocol, we need action from across the four winds of the world. If it’s not done right we need solidarity and protest just the same. We are each other’s safety net in this theatre of sport. As a senior Aboriginal woman activist once told me, ‘we are all only as good as we negotiate’.