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  • Professor, Australian and Aboriginal History, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, Convenor: Indigenous Land & Justice Research Group, UNSW
Les peuples wiradjuri, gomeroi et wailwan des plaines et des régions fluviales ne sont pas restés passifs face à la variole. Ici les plaines de Bathurst et la colonie de Nouvelle-Galles du Sud, représentées par Augustus Earle. Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Arêtes de poisson, quarantaine et vaccination : les armes des Aborigènes contre la variole

Heidi Norman, UNSW and Nicholas Pitt, UNSW

Longtemps, les historiens ont surtout étudié les origines de l’épidémie de variole qui a ravagé le sud-est de l’Australie au début des années 1830. De nouvelles recherches montrent que les peuples aborigènes ne furent pas seulement des victimes.
Hay Local Aboriginal Land Council staff and members with researchers and actuaries from Finity Consulting. UNSW Indigenous Land and Justice Research Group

Here’s how First Nations landholders can share the benefits of the NSW energy transition

Heidi Norman, UNSW ; Saori Miyake, University of Technology Sydney; Sarah Niklas, University of Technology Sydney, and Therese Apolonio, UNSW

A new report identifies opportunities for the 121 Local Aboriginal Land Councils in NSW to partner with renewable developers and build projects on their own land.
Hats for Humanity founder Susan Russell and Stolen Generations survivor Marlene Lord at the Sorry Day Stolen Generations Community Gathering in Sydney, May 25 2025. Sitthixay Ditthavong/AAP

30 years ago Australia confronted its Stolen Generation past – then the Howard government blew it

Anne Maree Payne, UNSW and Heidi Norman, UNSW

The landmark Bringing them Home inquiry was a chance to come to terms with the past. But the key recommendations of apology and compensation were rejected.
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Best books of 2023: our experts share the books that have stayed with them

Jen Webb, University of Canberra; Alexander Howard, University of Sydney; Alice Gorman, Flinders University; Anna Clark, University of Technology Sydney; Carl Rhodes, University of Technology Sydney; Carol Lefevre, University of Adelaide; Dennis Altman, La Trobe University; Edwina Preston, The University of Melbourne; Heidi Norman, University of Technology Sydney; Hugh Breakey, Griffith University; Julian Novitz, Swinburne University of Technology; Julienne van Loon, The University of Melbourne; Matthew Ricketson, Deakin University; Nick Haslam, The University of Melbourne; Oscar Davis, Bond University; Peter Mares, Monash University; Tanya Latty, University of Sydney; Tom Doig, The University of Queensland; Tony Hughes-d'Aeth, The University of Western Australia, and Wanning Sun, University of Technology Sydney

Plan your summer reading or catch up on what you missed with The Conversation’s selection of the best books of the year.
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Roald Dahl, time‑bending crime, and queer pirate comedy: the best of streaming this November

Dennis Altman, La Trobe University; Erin Harrington, University of Canterbury; Heidi Norman, University of Technology Sydney; Sarah Austin, The University of Melbourne, and Stephen Gaunson, RMIT University

There’s still time to get up to date on your binge watching, so you can be ready if anyone at an end-of-year party asks if you’ve seen anything good lately.
Professor Eleanor Bourke (left), chair of Yoo Rrook Justice Commission, the first formal truth-telling process into injustices experienced by First Peoples in Victoria, at the smoking ceremony at its launch. Diego Fedele/AAP

‘Why didn’t we know?’ is no excuse. Non‑Indigenous Australians must listen to the difficult historical truths told by First Nations people

Heidi Norman, University of Technology Sydney and Anne Maree Payne, University of Technology Sydney

Non-Indigenous Australians need to actively seek the truth about past violence and injustice against Indigenous Australians.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney and Chair of the Northern Land Council Samuel Bush-Blanasi unveil the 2023 Barunga Declaration at Parliament House. AAP Image/Lukas Coch

Before the Barunga Declaration, there was the Barunga Statement, and Hawke’s promise of Treaty

Archie Thomas, University of Technology Sydney; Heidi Norman, University of Technology Sydney, and Matthew Walsh, University of Technology Sydney

NT Land Councils have presented the Barunga declaration to Prime Minister Albanese, expressing support for the Voice to Parliament. The Barunga Statement in 1988 was an important part of this journey.
Chairperson of AIATSIS Jodie Sizer, daughter of the late Sir Robert Menzies Heather Henderson, Jenny Morrison, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and CEO of AIATSIS Craig Ritchie look at Indigenous artefacts at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies in Canberra. Lukas Coch/AAP Image

Ancestral Remains of First Nations people were once stolen for trophies. Now they will have a national resting place

Heidi Norman, University of Technology Sydney and Anne Maree Payne, University of Technology Sydney

The proposed National Resting Place in Canberra will be a vital step towards a more complete telling of this nation’s story.

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