The United Nations Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) recently conducted an assessment of the wellbeing of people around the world. The results indicate that Canberra is a world…
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Tony Abbott is spending this week in North East Arnhem Land, part of his long-held hope “to be not just the Prime Minister but the Prime Minister for Aboriginal Affairs”. We asked our experts: what stories…
The Creating Parity report on Indigenous employment and welfare, released last week by mining magnate Andrew Forrest, is in much the same vein as Tony Shepherd’s recent Commission of Audit. Forrest and…
A few years ago in a quiet corner of Sydney’s Redfern Community Centre, I interviewed a young Aboriginal man, Scott, about his life for a research project. Like many of his contemporaries he grew up in…
Within Aboriginal Australia there is currently much to celebrate. We have several prominent Aboriginal politicians, an Australian of the Year who is Aboriginal (Adam Goodes), people employed in prestigious…
Indigenous languages are under attack yet again. The federal budget, released on May 13, includes a substantial reduction of A$9.5 million over four years for the Indigenous Languages Support Programme…
Despite prime minister Tony Abbott’s apparent passion for Indigenous affairs, last week’s federal budget – his government’s first – shows he has followed a well-trodden political path. This path leads…
Australian prisons are yet to implement key recommendations from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody…
Think of Aboriginal health and you’ll probably recall messages of large gaps in life expectancy, increasing rates of chronic diseases such as diabetes, kidney disease and asthma. Or that the last ten years…
The resurfacing of the idea of developing northern Australia is akin to making a sequel for an old cinema classic. It evokes familiarity and the repackaging of tested and yet-to-be tested concepts. It…
Recently, Australian Indigenous policy has been characterised by an unambitious bipartisanship. After one too many dramatic and unsuccessful initiatives, there is a sense of lowered expectations. New prime…
**Northern futures, northern voices: It seems everyone has ideas about how Australia’s north could be better, but most of those ideas come from the south. In this six-part weekly series, developed by the…
Five years ago, prime minister Kevin Rudd took to the nation’s driving seat with the historic Stolen Generation apology. With the theme of this year’s NAIDOC (National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance…
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Professor of Economics and Public Policy, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Professorial Fellow, Jumbunna IHL, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor of Public Policy, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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ARC DECRA Fellow, Australian National University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Senior Lecturer in Social Research and Policy, UNSW
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Senior Lecturer In Public Policy, School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Indigenous Health, Executive Director, Carumba Institute, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor, UNSW
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Advisor, Author and Researcher, The University of Queensland
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Pro Vice-Chancellor Indigenous UNSW and Professor of Law, UNSW ; University of Pennsylvania
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Professor, School of Social and Political Sciences, Director, The (so-called) Australian Centre, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, Faculty of Health Sciences, Australian Catholic University
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Associate Professor, Macquarie University
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Social Policy, The University of Queensland