When our COVID-19 lockdowns end, we can’t afford to stop caring about collective well-being. NZ is well positioned to show the world how it’s done – if we listen to Māori and other diverse voices.
Articles on Indigenous Australia
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Charred plant remains from one of the oldest archaeological sites reveal that the first Australians ate a varied - and sometimes labour-intensive - diet.
Megan Davis on a First Nations Voice in the Constitution
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Megan Davis says the idea of including an Indigenous Voice in the Constitution is being rejected on an understanding that "simply isn't true" but believes Australia has the "capacity to correct this".
A report on primary health care found New Zealand fails to deliver good outcomes for Māori because the state does not stand aside to allow Māori to take charge of their own affairs.
As the flag’s copyright owner, Luritja artist Harold Thomas has the right to grant licences to whomever he pleases. Asking the government to buy back his copyright licence could be seen as an appropriation of Aboriginal property rights.
In 1918, in Wünsdorf prisoner-of-war camp, a German sculptor created a bust of Indigenous soldier Douglas Grant. For decades, the whereabouts of this nationally significant sculpture were unknown - until now.
Australian composers have long referenced Indigenous music and culture in their works. A new platform paper suggests a more collaborative way forward.
Romantic comedy meets road movie in Wayne Blair’s much anticipated new film.
It has often been assumed that Australia was essentially isolated until 1788. But research into the seagoing trade on the south coast of Papua New Guinea suggests otherwise.
There is a long history of cultural silence on the frontier wars that characterised Australia’s colonisation. Peta Clancy’s exhibition invites us to see this history in the Victorian landscape.
Wanji-wanji’s lyrics have remained unchanged over thousands of kilometres and the past 150 years.
In the late 1880s, Gomeroi woman Mary Jane Cain began petitioning Britain for land rights. A matriarch and Queen to her people, she recovered 600 acres that became home to displaced Aboriginal families.
Where else but on the sports field can an under-educated and even a troubled Aboriginal youth achieve celebrity status and social mobility?
A new report unpacks the complex role social media play in the lives of Indigenous Australians.
Peter Dutton’s call for ‘civilised nations’ to rescue white South African farmers draws explicitly on a long history of equating civilisation with a global white identity.
What may appear to be slow progress or steady outcomes for the whole Indigenous population may be masking worsening results.
While Harley Windsor’s selection deserves celebration, it’s surprising that it has taken until now for an Indigenous Australian to compete at a Winter Olympics.
Australia is on track to meet its ‘Closing the Gap’ employment target, but more than a decade late.
Care needs to be taken in interpreting progress on closing the gaps between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, and ascribing it to actual policy change.
Reconciliation between the Settler and First Nations populations is a self-evident prerequisite for Australia cutting the ties of colonial dependency with Britain to stand on our own.
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Professor of Economics and Public Policy, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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ARC DECRA Fellow, Australian National University
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Associate Professor, UNSW
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Indigenous Health, Executive Director, Carumba Institute, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Public Policy, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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ANU Visiting Professor, Politics and International Relations, Australian National University
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Professor of Conservation Biology, Charles Darwin University
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Commissioner, Yoo-rrook Justice Commission, University of Tasmania
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Professor in Human Rights and International Law, University of Newcastle
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Adjunct Professor, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer in Social Research and Policy, UNSW
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Professor of Linguistics, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney