Delivering the Closing the Gap annual report, the prime minister has announced a national commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children among other measures.
Demonstration for the rights of the Uyghurs in Berlin, 2020.
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Is history really a triumphant march of progress? It depends on your point of view.
Regrowth one month after fires at Colo Heights, NSW. A legacy of displacement and racism inflames bushfire trauma for Aboriginal Australians.
Vanessa Cavanagh
As Australia picks up the pieces after the fires, we must understand the unique grief Aboriginal people experience from a loss of country.
The family of Rebecca Maher, an Aboriginal woman who died in custody in 2016, believed access to a custody notification service would have been an important check in the absence of police care.
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Tanya Day, Ms Dhu and Rebecca Maher are among the 400 people who have died in custody more than 25 years since the Royal Commission. How could those deaths have been avoided?
Victoria’s proposed Indigenous treaty may run into problems over the issue of Aboriginal sovereignty.
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A damning inquiry has revealed the extent of the abuse suffered by British children sent abroad between 1920 and 1970. But it skirts around Aboriginal cultural genocide.
Debbie Baptiste, mother of Colten Boushie, is seen here in the House of Commons in February 2018.
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Indigenous people are seriously questioning whether Canada is truly changing following the acquittal of the man accused of killing Colten Boushie. A Mi'kmaq lawyer explains the despair.
Seeking out a good education can sometimes take you away from what’s familiar.
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If the government is to continue to spend millions toward sending Indigenous children away to boarding school, we need research into how effective this model is, and its impact on communities.
Aubrey Lynch, elder from the Wongatha Aboriginal language group, participated in one of the studies.
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New research into how early humans spread across the world settles several long-running debates.
Syphilis outbreaks tend to occur in marginalised populations where there is a lack of affordable, appropriate and culturally acceptable health care.
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James Ward, South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute; Donna B Mak, University of Notre Dame Australia; Johanna Dups, Australian National University, and Nathan Ryder, University of Newcastle
The syphilis outbreak in Central Australia is not about child abuse. But it highlights the urgent need for investment in sexual health services for Aboriginal Australians living in remote areas.
An historian reading the government White Paper on developing northern Australia will realise we’re actually heading all the way back to the 1890s.
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The federal government’s recent White Paper on developing northern Australia has disturbing echoes of the 1890s, a time when unbridled capitalism and indentured labour developed the North.
Senator David Leyonhjelm has said he is not taking sides in the debate, saying only that anthropologists disagree.
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Women who live in poorer areas, are older mothers, smokers or are Aboriginal have a higher risk of having a premature birth…
West Papuan refugee Amos Wainggai is on board the Freedom Flotilla, headed for Papuan shores from Australia. What will it mean for our relations with Indonesia?
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Given the extreme sensitivity with which the issue of West Papua is viewed in Indonesia, the “Freedom Flotilla” heading from Australia to the Indonesian-controlled territory is sure to create tension…
Koori women are the fastest-growing group in the Victorian prison population.
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Every two years, the Productivity Commission releases a report on the level of Indigenous disadvantage in Australia. These reports make for fairly bleak reading: most indicators show no change, and in…
Neither party should lose sight of Indigenous issues ahead of the federal election.
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With the federal election in our sights, we are reminded of the long journey ahead in addressing past wrongs and present challenges for Australia’s Indigenous peoples. Historically, the similarities outweigh…
Masters of Applied Epidemiology (MAE) Scholar, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National Univeristy (ANU), Australian National University