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First Nations
Essays & Reportage
Learning the local language
Lea McInerney
8 February 2017
Beginning to understand an Indigenous language brought Lea McInerney a little closer to a deeper story
Essays & Reportage
The fabrication of Aboriginal voting
Brian Galligan
22 December 2016
Keith Windschuttle has assembled a highly selective case against recognition of Indigenous Australians in the Constitution
Essays & Reportage
Where were the Aborigines?
Hal Wootten
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
Making a living differently
Jon Altman
16 December 2016
The abolition of Community Development Employment Projects has undermined economic renewal in remote Indigenous communities
National Affairs
A hope-led recovery?
Patrick Sullivan
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
New map, old roads
Patrick Sullivan
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
After the walk-off
Charlie Ward
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.…
National Affairs
A quarter of century later, how much have we learned?
Patrick Sullivan
1 August 2016
If governments are serious about the royal commission into child protection, they should pledge in advance to honour its recommendations, says
Patrick Sullivan
Essays & Reportage
Farewell to the spirit of 1967
Patrick Sullivan
29 June 2016
The rise of “deficit metrics” and the federal government’s retreat from Indigenous affairs have reversed the direction set by the historic 1967 referendum,…
Books & Arts
Is this such a man?
Peter Crowley
2 June 2016
Books
| Angus McMillan’s name has become attached to at least one massacre in Victoria’s Gippsland region, writes
Peter Crowley
. But does the…
National Affairs
Mungo Man needs help – to come home
Jim Bowler
9 February 2016
It’s time for funds and a plan to preserve and commemorate this visitor from Ancient Australia, writes
Jim Bowler
, the geologist who discovered Mungo Man’s remains
National Affairs
The parliamentary route to Indigenous recognition
Peter Brent
17 January 2016
There’s a way to recognise Indigenous Australians that bypasses our cantankerous founding document, says
Peter Brent
Essays & Reportage
Friend or foe? Anthropology’s encounter with Aborigines
Gillian Cowlishaw
19 August 2015
Anthropologists might have been implicated in colonial policies and practices, writes
Gillian Cowlishaw
, but for many decades theirs was the only scholarly discipline…
National Affairs
Unlocking Indigenous incarceration
Robert Milliken
31 July 2015
Governments have ignored a new report exposing appalling rates of young Indigenous people in detention, writes
Robert Milliken.
But a new response is attracting growing support
Books & Arts
Native title: the missing link
Michael Dillon
28 July 2015
Books
| A diverse new collection of essays lays out part of the roadmap for realising the potential of native title, writes
Michael Dillon
. But the political…
National Affairs
And the rest say “no”
Peter Brent
17 July 2014
There’s a pattern to the success of attempts to change the Australian constitution, writes
Peter Brent
, with lessons for advocates of Indigenous recognition
Essays & Reportage
Behind the mulga curtain
Eleanor Hogan
11 July 2014
Tennant Creek has developed innovative ways of dealing with the strengths and weaknesses of social media, writes
Eleanor Hogan
. But the initiatives are languishing,…
Books & Arts
Not so much the tale as its telling
Sylvia Lawson
5 March 2014
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
The Past
and
Utopia
Books & Arts
Stumbling into existence
Eleanor Hogan
11 December 2013
Eleanor Hogan
reviews a careful and often illuminating history of a northwestern Australian town
Essays & Reportage
The Brandis agenda
Shipra Chordia & Andrew Lynch
4 December 2013
Armed with an ambitious political and legal agenda, the new attorney-general faces a testing time, write
Shipra Chordia
and
Andrew Lynch
Books & Arts
Between one geography and another
Sylvia Lawson
25 July 2013
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
Satellite Boy
,
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
and
The Great Gatsby
Essays & Reportage
Forgotten war
Henry Reynolds
25 July 2013
The looming centenary of the landing at Gallipoli is a reminder of unfinished business between settler and Indigenous Australia after a decade of incomplete reconciliation
Books & Arts
A welcome touch of modesty
Frank Bongiorno
9 May 2013
Tim Rowse’s new book shows the strengths of an evidence-based approach to Indigenous policy, writes
Frank Bongiorno
Books & Arts
The limits of empire
Henry Reynolds
2 May 2013
Henry Reynolds
reviews a new account of exploration on two continents
Books & Arts
A slice of Alice Springs
Eleanor Hogan
14 February 2013
Eleanor Hogan
reviews Warwick Thornton’s film installation,
Mother Courage
Books & Arts
Shades of green, black and white
David Bowman
7 February 2013
David Bowman
considers the environmental politics of managing Indigenous lands
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