Honi Soit
FIRST PRINTED 1929
WEEK 3, SEM. 1, 2019
4-5: NEWS
12-13: FEATURE
Support at Dungay Jr. coronial inquest
Endometriosis on campus: Invisible 1 in 10
Activists and community members gathered to support the Dungay family last Friday on the last day of the Coronial Inquest into David Dungay Jr.’s murder. The majority of supporters gathered as part of a vigil, with placards supporting the mourning Dungay family as they gathered in court to give testimony. Supporters heard from Leetona Dungay, David’s mother, who made powerful
demands for accountability and justice. “Why [did] my beautiful son die such a horrible death?” Leetona asked, imploring the court to hold the murderers of Indigenous Australians in the health and legal systems accountable. We want to see justice for David’s death.”
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It’s February 2018 and I’m lying on a hospital bed. The anxiety-induced sweat underneath me is soaking the hospital bed linen. An anaesthetist is returning in five minutes to put me under, but at this point I’m having trouble lying still. I pick at my fingernails in an attempt to avoid clenching my jaw. I can hear the clock ticking over. Outside my
curtained room, I can also hear a series of murmured voices. “I’ve read about it in the media I think,” says one nurse to another. “Yeah, I always forget the name, but they say it’s a pretty common chronic condition. Should be an interesting surgery.”
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