What have our governments done to tackle rates of Indigenous custody?
Jack Waterford. 4 May 2021. From one perspective, one could see the conviction of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd as a...
Victoria’s truth-telling commission: to move forward, we need to answer for the legacies of colonisation.
Harry Hobbs University of Technology Sydney. 30 March 2021 Last year, the Victorian government announced it would establish a Truth and Justice process to...
Truth & treaties: the ongoing legacy of the Uluru statement.
Henry Reynolds. 30 March 2021. The most shameful day in Malcolm Turnbull’s tenure as Australia’s Prime Minister was 27 October 2017. It was the...
A rightful place, from colonisation to reconciliation.
Paul Wright. 8 February 2021 In the lead-up to Survival Day this year, three key reports have been released, the Interim Report to the...
Paul Wright. The Budget: record spending, but very little for First Nations peoples.
1 November 2020 So, unless you’ve been off the grid or in a bunker since January, the 2020 Budget has been offered up by...
Sherry Balcombe. Why we marched for Black Lives Matter.
2 July 2020 Photo Black Lives Matter Rally Melbourne. Matt Hrkac 2020. Flickr cc. When I heard the news of the George Floyd’s killing,...
Thalia Anthony & Stephen Gray. Was there slavery in Australia? Yes. It shouldn’t even be up for debate.
Thalia Anthony University of Technology Sydney. Stephen Gray Monash University. Photo In 1891 a ‘Slave Map of Modern Australia’ was printed in the British...
Bruce Duncan. Pope Francis, the Amazon Synod, & Australia.
7 May 2020. Pope Francis’s response to the Amazon Synod carries a message for Australia concerning our Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander peoples, since...
Why Pope Francis’s letter, ‘Beloved Amazon’, resonates in Australia.
Bruce Duncan Posted 10 March 2020 Many parts of Pope Francis’s response to the recent Amazon Synod could have been written for Australia, especially...
Ken Wyatt’s proposed ‘voice to government’ marks another failure to hear Indigenous voices.
Eddie Synot UNSW. Many will feel a sense of déjà vu when reading the minister for Indigenous Australians’ announcement of a co-design process for...
Mirrors & flags: the situation in West Papua.
Susan Connelly. A great deal is being written about the violence and deaths in Papua and West Papua, the two provinces of Indonesia which...