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Indigenous economic development corporations can generate income for communities and support the transition to clean energy.
The overarching goal of Indigenous cultural practices is to prevent the overconsumption of resources that underpins society’s throwaway culture.
The issue of poor sleep needs particular attention in the context of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander teenagers who have high rates of poor health, social and emotional well-being and education.
It’s 2023 and residents in remote First Nations communities still suffer from regular power disconnections. The fix is simple: put solar on every roof. But there are challenges to overcome first.
Now begins a long and difficult process to recover vast areas of forest after more than 50 years of destructive logging.
The office of the Protector of Aborigines was established in an effort to hear to the ‘wants, wishes and grievances’ of Aboriginal people. It failed almost immediately.
The end of native timber harvesting in Victoria offers a generational opportunity for First Peoples to care for Forest Country
We estimate more than 200 communities across Australia do not have community drinking water fountains. That must change.
Indigenous women are using sustainable tourism to overcome generational challenges and as an entrepreneurial means of generating income.
Restricting access to alcohol has proven successful, but it’s only part of the solution. There are other strategies that can lead to a longer-term, more sustainable approach.
In this podcast, former Paralympian Kurt Fearnley, chair of the National Disability Insurance Authority, which implements the scheme, discusses its issues and the road ahead
What does ‘justice reinvestment’ mean in practice? Who makes funding decisions? To find out more, we consulted Aboriginal communities in Bourke, Moree and Mount Druitt.
We used yarning and photoyarning to gather insights from staff and residents about the changes five decades of housing stability and support can bring about.
New agreements in B.C. provide economic compensation for land restoration activities to several First Nations and limit new oil and gas development projects.
The recent deaths of migrants trying to cross the Canada-U.S. border through Indigenous territory highlight the history of colonial dispossession that the border represents.
In this podcast, Michelle Grattan and Professor Marcia Langton discuss the Voice to Parliament and constitutional recognition for First Nations Australians
The Uluru Statement from the Heart calls for truth-telling as a crucial step towards reconciliation. What does this process involve, and what are the potential promises and pitfalls?
Strange barren patches in the Australian outback have been long-studied by scientists – but until recently, nobody had consulted the Aboriginal people who live among them.
Indigenous people have been calling for a treaty for generations. But what would it actually look like and what would it do?
Top contributors
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor, Australian and Aboriginal History, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, Convenor: Indigenous Land & Justice Research Group, UNSW
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Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney
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Director of Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, Chief Investigator for the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence against Women (CEVAW), School of Philosophical, Historical & International Studies, School of Social Sciences (SOSS), Monash University
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Executive Co-Director, UNU Hub on Empowering Communities to Adapt to Environmental Change, United Nations University; University of Calgary
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Associate professor, Faculty of Law, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Adjunct Professor, Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington and Auckland University of Technology, Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University
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Associate Dean of Business (Indigenous Leadership & Engagement); Director, UTS Centre for Indigenous People and Work, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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York Research Chair in Environmental Law & Justice in the Green Economy, York University, Canada
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Research Fellow in Disaster Resilience, Monash University
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Senior research fellow, Curtin University
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Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Department of Archaeology and History, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor of Public Policy, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Assistant Professor, Indigenous Methodologies, Chanie Wenjack School of Indigenous Studies, Trent University