Lorena Allam on the new low in Australia’s history of colonial terrorism

Last week, nine days after a bomb was allegedly thrown into an Invasion Day rally in Perth, police charged a 31-year-old man with engaging in a terrorist act. They allege he was seeking to advance what they described as a ‘racially motivated ideological cause’, saying he had accessed ‘pro-white material’ online. The wanting response from police, politicians and the media has left First Nations people feeling exposed and abandoned. Lorena Allam from the University of Technology’s Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research speaks to Nour Haydar on Australia’s history of racial violence and denial