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Learning
- Fighting fire with fire: Botswana adopts Indigenous Australians’ ancient burning tradition (Jun '20)
- ‘I spoke about Dreamtime, I ticked a box’: teachers say they lack confidence to teach Indigenous perspectives (Jun '20)
- Non-Indigenous Australians need to educate themselves. One way to do this is to take an Indigenous tour. (Jun '20)
- Explainer: what is decolonisation? (Jun '20)
- Indigenous (Maori) man explains racism problem using Woolworths items (Jun '20)
- Here are the practical ways you can support Aboriginal Lives Matter (Jun '20)
- What is Indigenous cultural intellectual property and copyright and how can I respect it? (May '20)
- What Australians often get wrong about our most (in)famous explorer, Captain Cook (Apr '20)
- Welcome to Country (a guide to experiencing Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Australia)
- Why an Acknowledgement of Country is important (and advice on how to give one)
- Challenging Terra Nullius
- Resources and activities for teaching indigenous history and culture, ages 13+
- Why most Aboriginal people have little say over clean energy projects planned for their land (Aug '20)
- Why the Black Lives Matter protests must continue: an urgent appeal by Marcia Langton (Aug '20)
- The Uluru statement is not a vague idea of ‘being heard’ but deliberate structural reform (Jul '20)
- In My Blood it Runs (The Film) (Jul '20)
- Lidia Thorpe wants to shift course on Indigenous recognition. Here’s why we must respect the Uluru Statement (Jul '20)
- There are many ways to achieve Indigenous recognition in the constitution – we must find one we can agree on (Jul '20)
- In My Blood It Runs challenges the ‘inevitability’ of Indigenous youth incarceration (Jun '20)
- Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra still 'the ground zero for First Nations people' nearly 50 years on (Jun '20)
- It’s time for me to speak. (Jun '20)
- For too long, the truth of our history and Indigenous stories have been denied and whitewashed (Jun '20)
- Why we organised Melbourne’s Black Lives Matter rally (Jun '20)
- This is black liberation in Australia – the time is here to be on the right side of history (Jun '20)
- Looking to buy Indigenous art? Here's how to purchase it fairly and transparently (May '20)
- Three years on from Uluru, we must lift the blindfolds of liberalism to make progress (May '20)
- Arnhem Land is in lockdown – but you can visit through online concerts (Apr '20)
- First Nations people have faced moments like this before. We can learn from the poems that sprung from them (Apr '20)
- Australian Story - ABC TV: … two elders from Cape York entrusted Victor Steffensen with the ancient knowledge of cultural burning. (Apr '20)
- Truganini's story has always been told as tragedy. She was so much more than that (Mar ’20)
- I implore my non-Indigenous friends to give a genuine damn (Mar '20)
- Why we need Aboriginal voices to tell the history of Australia’s convict past (Feb '20)
- I’m putting my trust and hope in our peoples’ determination to get the treaty process right (Oct '19)
- Listening with ‘our ears and our eyes’: Ken Wyatt’s big promises on Indigenous affairs (Jul '19)
- A First People's Assembly could deliver what our people have been demanding for so long (Jun '19)
- Andrew Bolt’s disappointment - Bruce Pascoe (Jan '20)
- The Voice to Parliament isn’t a new idea - Indigenous activists called for it nearly a century ago (Jan '20)
- The speech 12 year old Aboriginal child, Dujuan, delivered at the UN Human Rights Council (Sep '19)
- Tony Abbott condemned by Indigenous parliamentarians after NT visit (Sep '18)
- Scott Morrison claims Indigenous voice to parliament would be a third chamber (Sep '18)
- Anger over Tony Abbott's Indigenous envoy role: 'Haven't we been punished enough?' (Aug '18) Number of articles:
Voice/Art/Treaty
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Identity
- How a stone wedged in a gum tree shows the resilience of Aboriginal culture in Australia (Jun '20)
- Actor Meyne Wyatt says racism the real pandemic, Leetona Dungay calls for justice for son David Dungay on Q+A (Jun '20)
- Changing the ABC's pronunciation guidance on Indigenous words (Jun '20)
- Rio Tinto blasts 46,000-year-old Aboriginal site to expand iron ore mine (may '20)
- Between two worlds: 'I want my future to be on country' (Feb '20)
- High Court decision in Love and Thoms case reflects Aboriginal connection to the land (Feb '20)
- For First Nations people the bushfires bring a particular grief, burning what makes us who we are (Jan '20)
- Indigenous fire practices have been used to quell bushfires for thousands of years, experts say (Jan '20)
- Our first peoples already have a blueprint to remake the fire-ravaged land, it's in our country's bones (Jan '20)
- In traditional language, there is no word for disability (Nov '19)
- Aboriginal history is 'cultural vandalism'? Then I’ll proudly wear my Aboriginal flag-starred beret (Aug '17)
- How Indigenous tourism can help bring about reconciliation in Australia (Jun '17)
- Indigenous advisers slam Tony Abbott's 'lifestyle choice' comments as 'hopeless, disrespectful' (Mar '15)
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Inequality/Inclusion
- Victoria's 'silent tragedy' of Indigenous suicide sparks calls for urgent intervention (Jun '20)
- As COVID-19 restrictions begin to ease, now is the time to support Indigenous business (Jun '20)
- The ripple effect: How supporting Indigenous home ownership drives a strong economic future for Australia (Feb '20)
- Even education has been used as a weapon of white supremacy in Australia (Jul '19)
- Indigenous people no longer have the legal right to say no to the Adani mine – here’s what it means for equality (Sep ' 19)
- June Oscar's 2020s vision: Reaching our potential as a nation begins with truth-telling (Jan '20)
- The land the NDIS forgot: the remote Indigenous communities losing the postcode lottery (Nov '19)
- CONTEMPORARY TOOLS OF DISPOSSESSION: THE CASHLESS DEBIT CARD TRIAL IN THE EAST KIMBERLEY (Nov '18)
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Vandalism of Aboriginal Sites
- Juukan Gorge: Rio Tinto hired lawyers for potential injunction against blasting of Aboriginal site (Sep '20)
- More than 100 Aboriginal sacred sites – some dating before the Ice Age – could be destroyed by mining companies (Aug '20)
- Rio Tinto’s evidence condemned by Juukan Gorge traditional owners after revelation it could have avoided blowing up sacred sites (Aug '20)
- We need a thorough investigation into the destruction of the Juukan Gorge caves. A mere apology will not cut it (Jul '20)
- Propaganda 101: How Tony Abbott Won Australia’s Highest Honour For ‘Service To Indigenous Communities’ (Jun '20)
- Australia has an ugly legacy of denying water rights to Aboriginal people. Not much has changed (Jun '20)
- The destruction of a 46,000-year-old cave and the backlash for Australia’s mining industry (Jun '20)
- Rio Tinto caves on demands to release review of Indigenous heritage site destruction (Jun '20)
- Culture warriors obsessed with statues ignore Rio Tinto’s vandalism of Indigenous heritage (Jun '20)
- 'Heritage of all Australians': Rio Tinto and BHP in damage control after call for mining halt (Jun '20)
- BHP to destroy at least 40 Aboriginal sites, up to 15,000 years old, to expand Pilbara mine (Jun '20)
- Rio Tinto just blasted away an ancient Aboriginal site. Here’s why that was allowed (May '20)
- Rio Tinto blasts 46,000-year-old Aboriginal site to expand iron ore mine (may '20)
- 'This is a tragic loss': Sydney light rail construction 'destroys' heritage site (Mar '19)
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Racism
- How does racism impact on mental wellbeing? (Jun ’20)
- How does racism impact on mental wellbeing? (Jun ’20)
- Hills Shire Council Acknowledgement of Country motion defeated again (Jun '20)
- Facebook incorrectly removes picture of Aboriginal men in chains because of 'nudity' (Jun '20)
- Actor Meyne Wyatt says racism the real pandemic, Leetona Dungay calls for justice for son David Dungay on Q+A (Jun '20)
- Actor Meyne Wyatt supports Black Lives Matter with powerful monologue on racism on Q+A (Jun '20)
- Here are the practical ways you can support Aboriginal Lives Matter (Jun '20)
- Does the races power still have a place in the Australian constitution? (Jun '20)
- Three-quarters of Australians biased against Indigenous Australians, study finds (Jun '20)
- The way Scott Morrison talks about Indigenous pain is a problem (Jun '20)
- It took a death overseas to take the blinkers off here. Australia, the time has come (Jun '20)
- 80 years ago, Violet was stolen and forced into unpaid work. She says the PM is wrong: It was slavery (Jun '20)
- This is black liberation in Australia – the time is here to be on the right side of history (Jun '20)
- Three-quarters of Australians biased against Indigenous Australians, study finds (Jun '20)
- Uluru climb ban: Today show criticised after segment featuring Pauline Hanson (Jul '19)
- Henry Reynolds: Australia was founded on a hypocrisy that haunts us to this day (Aug '18)
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Indigenous History
- Aboriginal people sacrificed their lives in the frontier wars for us to be here. I wanted to honour them (Jul '20)
- Cook commemorations are mute on intimate encounters and their profound impact on Indigenous women (Jun '20)
- 80 years ago, Violet was stolen and forced into unpaid work. She says the PM is wrong: It was slavery (Jun '20)
- Was there slavery in Australia? Yes. It shouldn’t even be up for debate (Jun '20)
- Truganini's story has always been told as tragedy. She was so much more than that (Mar '20)
- Australia is built on lies, so why would we be surprised about lies about climate change? (Jan '20)
- The Pinjarra massacre: it's time to speak the truth of this terrible slaughter (Nov '19)
- Blood, brains and foul murder: evidence of Australia's massacres is in its newspapers (Nov '19)
- Forced to build their own pyres: dozens more Aboriginal massacres revealed in Killing Times research (Nov '19)
- The Killing Times … a map of sites where violence occurred on the Australian frontier. … (Nov '19)
- Henry Reynolds: Australia was founded on a hypocrisy that haunts us to this day (Aug '18)
- Tony Abbott says Australia was 'unsettled' before British arrived (Jul '14)
- Senate Committee Report: Unfinished business - Indigenous stolen wages (Dec '06)
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Invasion Day
A failure to say hello: how Captain Cook blundered his first impression with Indigenous people (Jun '20) Captain Cook ‘discovered’ Australia, and other myths from old school text books (Apr '20) This Invasion Day, I have your playlist sorted (Jan '20) 26 January, the ultimate day for toxic patriotism, is the perfect event to call for change (Jan'20) Yes, this continent was invaded in 1788 – an international law expert explains (Jan '20)
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Health Care/Closing the Gap
- Yes, we need to Close the Gap on health. But many patients won’t tell hospitals they’re Indigenous for fear of poorer care (Jul '20)
- Chelsea Bond: The ‘new’ Closing the Gap is about buzzwords, not genuine change for Indigenous Australia (Jul '20)
- There are 3 new Closing the Gap education targets: here’s what they miss (Jul '20)
- Collaborating with communities delivers better oral health for Indigenous kids in rural Australia (Jul '20)
- Collaborating with communities delivers better oral health for Indigenous kids in rural Australia (Jul '20)
- 'Disgusting' prices and mouldy fruit: the shocking allegations about Indigenous Australians' food supply (Jul '20)
- 'Lack of money': 43% of Aboriginal people in remote communities have gone without food in past year (Jul '20)
- Closing the gap: joint council approves draft strategy, but leaders say 'new money' essential for progress (Jul '20)
- The lie white Australians tell themselves about issues in Indigenous communities (Jun '20)
- Foster care groups on a mission to recruit Indigenous carers in remote NSW (Jun '20)
- Closing the Gap measures need to be changed to improve outcomes. Here’s how (Jun '20)
- Coronavirus and culture: 'We're waiting it out in paradise' (May '20)
- Urban Aboriginal people face unique challenges in the fight against coronavirus (Apr '20)
- 'I am frightened': Indigenous people return to homelands to wait out coronavirus (Apr '20)
- Lack of PPE forces Aboriginal health groups to stop testing for coronavirus (Apr '20)
- The answer to Indigenous vulnerability to coronavirus: a more equitable public health agenda (Apr '20)
- Scott Morrison wants Indigenous people to help with Closing the Gap. They already are (Mar '20)
- Closing the Gap report shows only two targets on track as PM pushes for Indigenous-led refresh (Feb '20)
- Being Aboriginal with a disability a 'double whammy', royal commission told (Feb '20)
- The Closing the Gap - PBS Co-payment Measure (Jan '20)
- Lost, missing or murdered? … some of the country’s most vulnerable people are going missing, and many are never found. In Canada they’re calling it a genocide, but in Australia some states aren’t even keeping count. (Dec '19)
- The land the NDIS forgot: the remote Indigenous communities losing the postcode lottery (Nov '19)
- 'Unspeakable': how can Australia stop the Indigenous suicide epidemic? (May '19)
- Aboriginal foster children, non-Indigenous carers and breaking down barriers in out-of-home care (Mar '19)
- NT camp water still contaminated two weeks after alert (May '18)
- Without the basics, Indigenous girls still can't participate in society (Jul '17)
- Indigenous girls in remote areas skip school because they lack pads and tampons (Jul '17)
- MPs who walked out on Bill Shorten at Closing the Gap, thanks for your honesty (Jul '17)
- Housing and Indigenous people living with a disability: lived experiences of housing and community infrastructure (Feb '16)
- Closing the Gap: poor progress on most Indigenous disadvantage measures (Mar '15)
- Coalition MPs stage walkout after Bill Shorten raises budget in Closing the Gap speech (Feb '15)
- Abbott is quietly failing on his ‘PM for Aboriginal affairs’ promise (May '14)
- Budget 2014: $534 million cut to Indigenous programs (May '14)
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Indigenous Justice System/Deaths in Custody
- David Dungay: manslaughter or assault charges over death in custody are 'viable', barrister says (Jul '20)
- Instead of demonising Black Lives Matter protesters, leaders must act on their calls for racial justice (Jul '20)
- Black Lives Matter organisers say they’ll call off Sydney rally if premier seeks Dungay death investigation (Jul '20)
- The push to raise Australia's minimum age of criminal responsibility (Jul '20)
- Raise the age to keep Aboriginal kids in community, not behind bars (Jul '20)
- Three projects linking Aboriginal communities and police that are helping to stop more Indigenous people going to jail (Jul '20)
- Australia must commit to ambitious targets to reduce incarceration. Indigenous lives depend on it (Jul '20)
- We need to go beyond empty gestures if we're going to end Aboriginal deaths in custody (Jun '20)
- 'Bad day' no defence in arrest of Indigenous teen: former judge (Jun '20)
- NSW police commissioner says officer who slammed Indigenous teen to ground ‘had a bad day’ (Jun '20)
- 'These aren't random events': calls grow for greater police accountability over Indigenous arrests (Jun '20)
- Pat Dodson on Indigenous deaths in custody – Australian politics live (Jun '20)
- Indigenous man repeatedly tasered in face, chest and neck during arrest in Sydney (Jun '20)
- WA police officer escaped sanction for ‘shocking’ force against Indigenous boy (Jun '20)
- Aboriginal deaths in custody: Black Lives Matter protests referred to our count of 432 deaths. It's now 437 (Jun '20)
- Public health expert says Black Lives Matter protests should be allowed to go ahead (Jun '20)
- How does Australia address worsening Indigenous incarceration rates? Focus on these three things (Jun '20)
- Failure of justice for Indigenous people: … In the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests, footage of police punching Aboriginal man Noel Henry in the head during an arrest has prompted outrage… (Jun '20)
- Australia had its own George Floyd moment, only it passed without international outrage (Jun '20)
- How serious is the Morrison government about stopping Indigenous deaths in custody? (Jun '20)
- FactCheck Q&A: are Indigenous Australians the most incarcerated people on Earth? (Jun '20)
- A Wiradjuri woman, Jarin joined the force to make a difference. She quit disappointed (Jun '20)
- 'Defund the police': What it means and how it would work (Jun '20)
- Deaths inside: how we track Indigenous deaths in custody and why we do it (Jun '20)
- NSW police pursue 80% of Indigenous people caught with cannabis through courts (Jun '20)
- South Australia police investigate video appearing to show officers striking Indigenous man (Jun '20)
- NSW police disproportionately target Indigenous people in strip searches (Jun '20)
- Punitive policing doesn’t make Aboriginal people safer. Community solutions can (Jun '20)
- The death of David Dungay Jnr … his case and the death of George Floyd have brought his death in 2015 back into the spotlight. Both men were held down before they died, both cried ‘I can’t breathe' (Jun '20)
- Tony Abbott: 'no evidence' Indigenous Australians face justice system discrimination (Jun '20)
- Death Inside: Aboriginal Deaths in Custody 2008-2020 (Jun '20)
- 'Essentially a cover-up': why it's so hard to measure the over-policing of Indigenous Australians (Jun '20)
- More guns and prisons are not a solution to racial disparity. Could defunding the police be the answer? (Jun '20)
- ‘There cannot be 432 victims and no perpetrators…’ (Jun '20)
- No, Australia is not the US. Our shocking racial injustice is all our own (Jun '20)
- Despite 432 Indigenous deaths in custody since 1991, no one has ever been convicted. Racist silence and complicity are to blame (Jun '20)
- Australia still turns a blind eye to Aboriginal people dying in police custody (Jun '20)
- ‘I can’t breathe!’ Australia must look in the mirror to see our own deaths in custody (Jun '20)
- Sydney police officer under investigation after slamming Indigenous boy face-first on to pavement (Jun '20)
- Family of David Dungay, who died in custody, express solidarity with family of George Floyd (Jun '20)
- Aboriginal prisoners in Western Australia held in sweltering hot cells infested with snakes (May '20)
- NSW police watchdog says strip searches illegal but critics say findings ‘did not go far enough’ (May '20)
- 'My son should not have died': Prison death of Indigenous man is much more than an 'isolated tragedy' (May '20)
- Tanya Day inquest: coroner refers death in custody of Aboriginal woman for possible prosecution (Apr '20)
- ACT prison officers' drawing of Aboriginal inmate 'racist and hurtful' (Mar '20)
- Kumanjayi Walker: court postpones case of NT police officer charged with murder (Apr '20)
- NSW police put children as young as nine, many of them Indigenous under surveillance (Feb '20)
- Coalition seeks to sidestep high court ruling that Aboriginal non-citizens can't be deported (Feb '20)
- Indigenous woman dies in custody in Victoria two days after being refused bail (Jan '20)
- Can Indigenous Australians be deported as ‘aliens’? A High Court decision will show us the strength of modern colonial power (Dec '19)
- Geraldton shooting: questions raised over WA police decision to use lethal force (Sep '19)
- Shackling dying man Eric Whittaker to bed was 'horrific', coroner hears (Oct '19)
- Geraldton shooting: Indigenous woman dies after being shot by police in Western Australia (Sep '19)
- 'Why does it take so long?' The desperate wait for answers after a death in custody (Aug '19)
- Locking up kids damages their mental health and sets them up for more disadvantage. Is this what we want? (Jun '19)
- 'It's time for this to stop': Aboriginal woman dies in custody 20 years after her father (Apr '19)
- Prison health service concedes it missed opportunities to prevent Indigenous death in custody, inquest told (Nov '18)
- Drownings of boys in Perth being treated as 'death in police presence' (Sep '18)
- Aboriginal man dies in WA regional prison (May '18)
- We need evidence-based law reform to reduce rates of Indigenous incarceration (Apr '18)
- Queensland police accused of spear-tackling Indigenous man before death in custody (Feb '18)
- Sydney father dies after falling from Waterloo balcony during attempted arrest (Feb '18)
- More than 50% of those on secretive NSW police blacklist are Aboriginal (Nov '17)
- Tane Chatfield's family sceptical of information given by Corrective Services NSW over death in custody (Oct '17)
- South Australia reform push after another 'medical episode' death in custody (Aug '17)
- Why are so many Indigenous kids in detention in the NT in the first place? (Aug '16)
- Aboriginal woman in WA fined $500 for stealing $6.75 box of tampons (Oct '15)
- Nigel Scullion criticised for not setting goal to cut Indigenous incarceration (Nov '14)