Enforceable protections for the ancient rock art at Murujuga from the North West Shelf gas industry are critical to ensuring that it survives another fifty-thousand years.
Perkins broke through racial barriers not to be a first, but to move the dial of disadvantage suffered by Indigenous people so that they are counted as equal.
Fifty years of achievement must be viewed through the lens of what those who came before us were working toward and what still remains to be achieved.
A review of the achievements of Indigenous people over the past 50 years in Australia.
The defection of Barnaby Joyce should be viewed not so much as a matter of principle as one of strategic ambition.
The professor names the oppressors with taxonomic precision – and is correct about all of them. He cannot, however, imagine that Aboriginal people laugh.
The law must be held to account. The institutions that carry it must be held to account. The politicians who shape those institutions must be held to account.
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck ...
Higher expectations and broader negative assumptions of an Indigenous man underpin the pervasive structural racism that destroys First Nations lives.
Every year on the 26th of May, Australia observes National Sorry Day. Flags are lowered. Speeches are made. Politicians stand at podiums and invoke the language of healing, reconciliation, and…
Before the word sorry was even possible, the country already knew what had been taken ...
Some of you have been reading this blog since its earliest days. You know the history. You know what was attempted. This is a brief note to tell you that…
Far from being a footnote in history, the Enlightenment remains a challenge to the racism and exclusion plaguing Australia and the world.
Regardless of recommendations, time and again, the rights of Indigenous people in Australia are subordinated to those of others, The Gap never closing.
Australia is not and has never been a defined racial group. There is no racial purity and those who argue such are not its defenders.
Yolngu painting is more than art. It is a living expression of ancestors, land and community, one with the Dreaming.
Inequities in the management of first-time drug offences by NSW Police highlight the ongoing problems in Closing the Gap.