How I am learning to include Indigenous knowledge in the classroom
"What have we failed to know and at what cost?" An education professor draws upon Indigenous literature to support a personal journey into classroom decolonization.
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Collaboration can help in the Indigenous water crisis
Can community-led research help address Canada's Indigenous water security issues? One project from the Inuit community of Rigolet in Labrador suggests it can.
All mouth and no ears: Settlers with Opinions
A leading Indigenous academic says too many Canadians take ugly pleasure in being ignorant about Indigenous issues. It's time for some straight talk about Settlers with Opinions.
Lessons for Canada in New Zealand’s Indigenous-friendly electoral system
As New Zealanders head to the polls this week, there are lessons for Canada in the country's electoral system — in particular how it gives Indigenous people a greater role in governing.
In Vietnam poverty and poor development, not just floods, kill the most marginalised
Disasters may have 'natural' triggers but why are ethic minorities forced to live under harsh conditions that make them particularly vulnerable to catastrophes?
Instead of renaming buildings, why not truly improve Indigenous lives?
The Langevin Block on Parliament Hill is being renamed out of respect for Indigenous people. But instead of renaming buildings, let's offer meaningful change to the Indigenous.
Romantic notions about the Arctic must include Indigenous rights
The Arctic plays a big role in Canada's national identity. But as Canada's relationship with the region evolves, the interests of Indigenous peoples must be better-represented.
Australia has ignored black viewpoints before – why would a constitutional ‘voice’ be any different?
Bodies established around the world to hear 'black' voices have an enduring problem: they advise, but are rarely – if ever – heard.
Buried tools and pigments tell a new history of humans in Australia for 65,000 years
A new study pushes back the first known evidence of human activity in Australia – to 65,000 years ago.
Response to Referendum Council report suggests a narrow path forward on Indigenous constitutional reform
Implicit in Malcolm Turnbull’s and Bill Shorten's arguments that an Indigenous 'voice to parliament' would be a big change is the notion that it may be too difficult.
Three charts on: Australia’s booming prison population
The largest increases in Australia's prison numbers have been in remand, Indigenous and women prisoners.
How Indigenous tourism can help bring about reconciliation in Australia
It is a problem in our efforts to build reconciliation that Australians appear not to be taking up the hospitality of their fellow Australians.
Bridges and roads in north-east India may drive small tribes away from development
As India opens up a new bridge in its north-eastern region, local tribal communities feel left out of the development picture.
Uluru call for constitutional First Nations Voice presents new challenge for Referendum Council
If earlier timetables had been achievable and voters persuadable, we might by now have had same-sex marriage on the statute books and agreement to the recognition of Australia’s First Peoples in the Constitution…
Listening to the heart: what now for Indigenous recognition after the Uluru summit?
Indigenous Australians have issued a statement calling for constitutional reform that is substantive and meaningful.
‘Right wrongs, write Yes’: what was the 1967 referendum all about?
The 1967 referendum was the culmination of a long struggle for both Aboriginal rights and respect, for social esteem as well as equality before the law.
Explainer: why 300 Indigenous leaders are meeting at Uluru this week
At Uluru, Indigenous representatives from across Australia will aim to reach consensus on what constitutional recognition means to them.
Lessons of 1967 referendum still apply to debates on constitutional recognition
The 1967 referendum fell far short in giving people what they thought they were voting for, and in giving Aboriginal people what they wanted from it.
Australian politics explainer: the Mabo decision and native title
The Mabo decision changed Australia's concept of land ownership. It was a divisive yet important step toward recognising Indigenous rights and establishing native title.
Young people’s voices are all but invisible in the Don Dale royal commission’s interim report
The NT youth justice royal commission’s interim report did not deliver any findings or make any recommendations. Nor did it reflect young people’s personal stories.
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Associate Professor, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Professorial Fellow, Jumbunna IHL, University of Technology Sydney
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Senior Lecturer, UNSW Law School; Director, Referendums Project, Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, UNSW
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Aboriginal Studies, Curtin University
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ARC Indigenous Research Fellow, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor in Law, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor, Design Anthropology, Swinburne University of Technology
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Lecturer, School of Humanities, Griffith University
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Lecturer, Faculty of Health Sciences, Australian Catholic University
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PhD Candidate, Constitutional Law and Indigenous Rights, UNSW
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Research Professor, Alfred Deakin Institute of Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer and Deputy Director, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Law Faculty, Monash University
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