Why, despite substantial spending, do serious difficulties continue to plague efforts to improve Indigenous wellbeing?
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There is a deep connection between past and present in Indigenous affairs in Australia.
The ABC has missed a rare opportunity to deeply engage with the diversity of views among Indigenous Australians about whether and how they should be ‘recognised’ in the Constitution.
Indigenous peoples live in societies where their sense of cultural worth is constantly undermined.
For many, relations between Indigenous Australians and the government are best described as being in a state of crisis.
The longer the process of recognising Indigenous Australians in the Constitution goes on, the more debate is likely to split and fracture.
What the Northern Territory’s experience with state interventions reveals is that rather than protecting young people, it has placed them at greater risk of mistreatment and trauma.
Until we see a marked change in the stories that are told, together with a shift from inclusion to social justice, the national story of Australian sport will remain very, very white.
Sports weekends are where family connections are sustained, and culture is infused into Australian football games played on country.
Ever since British settlement, water rights in Australia’s north have favoured landowners over traditional owners, effectively locking Aboriginal people out of agricultural development.
The accomplishments of successful royal commissions flow not just from strong findings and recommendations but from intelligent procedure.
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.
Media reporting and policies almost always tend to focus on what is wrong with Indigenous Australians. This is having unintended consequences.
Wildfire makes up about 4% of the greenhouse gases added to the atmosphere each year.
In some Indigenous communities, the ratio of programs to people served is possibly the highest in the world. Somehow, for many, Closing the Gap remains an elusive goal. A rethink is needed.
The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody’s report was meant to be a blueprint for reducing the disproportionate incarceration of Indigenous Australians and deaths in custody.
Debate over ‘discovery’ of Australia is alive and well – in the mind of one Sydney newspaper editor.
European invasion completely disrupted the way aboriginal Australians managed fire. Learning from Australia’s first people could help us fight fires in the future.
As the Australian Government pushes ahead with its Northern Development agenda “making it easier to use natural assets”, it’s important to ask how this may affect the Indigenous peoples in whose territories development will occur.
Tony Abbott’s belated agreement with Indigenous leaders on a consultation process for constitutional recognition is a step in the right direction.
Top contributors
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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