Essays & Reportage
8 September 2020
While the new agreement opens up opportunities for Indigenous organisations, the federal government has stepped back from its post-1967 responsibilities
Essays & Reportage
3 September 2020
An exchange of memorials illustrates how Cook has been remembered and misremembered
Essays & Reportage
4 August 2020
Myth, history and Captain Cook
National Affairs
2 July 2020
The Productivity Commission wants a new focus on what works for Indigenous communities
Books & Arts
24 June 2020
Books | Historian Mark Dunn is alive to the complexities of early contact in the Hunter region
National Affairs
12 June 2020
Two major inquiries have recommended a simple measure to reduce Aboriginal deaths in custody. So why have most states taken so long to act?
Books & Arts
5 June 2020
Books | A new biography of Truganini provokes bittersweet reflections
Books & Arts
4 June 2020
Television | The ABC’s satirical take on the Maralinga tests captures the confusion and the wilful blindness
Books & Arts
13 May 2020
Television | Ensemble drama Mystery Road is in a class of its own
Essays & Reportage
1 May 2020
Reappraisals and re-enactments have shaped public memory, but our understanding of James Cook’s life and impact continues to evolve
Essays & Reportage
28 April 2020
The anniversary festival has been abandoned, but the communities at Cook’s landing point continue to promote a more complex story
Books & Arts
27 April 2020
Books | Two new books about frontier conflict bring fresh evidence that Aboriginal communities waged well-planned warfare on the settlers
Essays & Reportage
17 April 2020
Having yet again rediscovered Aboriginal land management practices, let’s not let the opportunity slip away
Essays & Reportage
6 April 2020
How the Spanish flu reached the New South Wales town of Singleton
Essays & Reportage
17 February 2020
Extract | For many Aboriginal people, Finniss Springs has been a homeland and a refuge
Essays & Reportage
4 August 2019
Extract | Maralinga combines the devastation of atomic testing and the green shoots of the future
National Affairs
24 July 2019
Governments across Australia are negotiating formal agreements with Indigenous communities
National Affairs
21 July 2019
An edited extract from the former chief justice’s speech this week
National Affairs
17 July 2019
At heart, this is an inclusive rather than divisive proposal
National Affairs
14 June 2019
Nearly thirty years after the Aboriginal deaths in custody royal commission, the Northern Territory finally has a custody notification service. But is there devil in its detail?
Essays & Reportage
28 May 2019
Is there a way to escape the paradox presented so movingly by Stan Grant?
Books & Arts
8 May 2019
Books | Three men and four organisations were at the centre of a movement with an outsized impact on Australian politics
Essays & Reportage
21 November 2018
The pioneering Indigenous journalist played a key role in establishing the Tent Embassy in Canberra. His work has been recognised this month by the Australian Media Hall of Fame
Essays & Reportage
8 February 2017
Beginning to understand an Indigenous language brought Lea McInerney a little closer to a deeper story
Essays & Reportage
22 December 2016
Keith Windschuttle has assembled a highly selective case against recognition of Indigenous Australians in the Constitution
Essays & Reportage
19 December 2016
The 1966 equal pay case was a product of the silence at the heart of Indigenous policy, writes one of the lawyers briefed in the case
National Affairs
16 December 2016
The abolition of Community Development Employment Projects has undermined economic renewal in remote Indigenous communities
National Affairs
15 September 2016
A new WA government scheme may show how the “mainstreaming” of Aboriginal services can be made to work, says Patrick Sullivan
Essays & Reportage
2 September 2016
It’s time for a national inquiry into how the outback can be better funded for black and white alike, writes Patrick Sullivan
Essays & Reportage
24 August 2016
Between their historic departure from Wave Hill station in 1966 and Gough Whitlam’s return of their land in 1975, the Gurindji people lived through a decade of uncertainty.…