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This sketch depicts the Waterloo Creek massacre (also known as the Slaughterhouse Creek massacre), part of the conflict between mounted police and Indigenous Australians in 1838. Godfrey Charles Mundy/National Library of Australia

June 19, 2020

Enforcing assimilation, dismantling Aboriginal families: a history of police violence in Australia

Thalia Anthony, University of Technology Sydney and Harry Blagg, The University of Western Australia

Police played a unique role in many settler colonies executing assimilationist policies designed to dismantle First Nations families.

Country provides a site where Aboriginal and mainstream forms of law can come together and have dialogue – an outcome made possible by Eddie Mabo (L). AAP/NAA

June 9, 2016

Law reports push piecemeal changes to native title, but still fall short

Harry Blagg, The University of Western Australia

The ALRC report made some useful recommendations about how settler law could deal more fairly with Aboriginal people by taking their traditions and customs into account.

The system is failing Indigenous youths with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder. AAP/Mick Tsikas

April 7, 2016

Indigenous youth with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder need Indigenous‑run alternatives to prison

Tamara Tulich, The University of Western Australia and Harry Blagg, The University of Western Australia

Rosie Anne Fulton, a young Northern Territory Indigenous woman with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder, highlights how the system is failing.

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