Daphne Habibis – The Conversation

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February 13, 2023

Our research has shown Indigenous peoples’ needs cannot be understood and met, without Indigenous voices

Penny Taylor, University of Tasmania; Daphne Habibis, University of Tasmania, and Kellie Pollard, Charles Darwin University

Decades of government Indigenous Affairs policy has not delivered. A new approach is needed. Policy-making informed by Indigenous lived experience through a Voice to parliament may be the answer.

This child and her mother found refuge at a women’s shelter, but many are unable to find the secure housing they need to escape family violence. Dan Peled/AAP

September 19, 2019

Another stolen generation looms unless Indigenous women fleeing violence can find safe housing

Kyllie Cripps, UNSW and Daphne Habibis, University of Tasmania

Indigenous children are admitted to out-of-home care at 11 times the rate for non-Indigenous children. The lack of safe housing for mothers fleeing family violence is a key factor.

A remote community in the Cape York region of Queensland.

February 19, 2018

We won’t close the gap if the Commonwealth cuts off Indigenous housing support

Daphne Habibis, University of Tasmania; Peter Phibbs, University of Sydney, and Rhonda Phillips, The University of Queensland

Decent housing underpins the Closing the Gap goals, with a decade-long national remote housing program having made measurable progress. If the Commonwealth pulls out now, hard-won gains could be lost.

Research shows most Indigenous people feel judged, stereotyped and disregarded by white people. AAP/Marianna Massey

September 19, 2016

To move forward on reconciliation, Australia must recognise it has a race relations problem

Daphne Habibis, University of Tasmania; Maggie Walter, University of Tasmania, and Penny Taylor, Larrakia Nation Aboriginal Corporation

Indigenous peoples live in societies where their sense of cultural worth is constantly undermined.

While Adam Goodes is the public face of the debate, almost any Indigenous Australian can speak of the day-by-day experience of a lack of respect for who they are. AAP/Paul Miller

August 6, 2015

White Australia needs to take responsibility for reconciliation too

Daphne Habibis, University of Tasmania and Penny Taylor, Larrakia Nation Aboriginal Corporation

For at least some Australians, it seems that Indigenous culture is acceptable only as an object of consumption for tourists visiting the remote north.

Younger generations are more likely to engage in acts of kindness. Alex Proimos

October 6, 2014

Forget moral decline: Aussies might be getting kinder

Nicholas Hookway, University of Tasmania and Daphne Habibis, University of Tasmania

The world today is often portrayed as being less kind, friendly or giving than it used to be. So-called Gen Me, today’s teens and young adults, are the poster-children of moral decline, routinely characterised…

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