Neither of the two federal investigations into fish deaths in the Darling River include any Indigenous representation.
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Australia's government can do more to ensure Australian mining companies do no harm in pursuit of Africa's mineral wealth.
The We'suwet'en First Nation is fighting the Coastal GasLink pipeline project, which would stretch nearly 700 kilometres across northern B.C. through their unceded land.
Indigenous Australians are vastly over-represented in the prison population, but the success of a new program is offering hope that it can be turned around.
In New Zealand, sovereignty is disputed, but the Maori case for sharing it with settlers underscores the limits of First Nations consultation in Canada.
The Australian justice system must do more to acknowledge the colonial system on which it is built, which inherently privileges whiteness.
It was a week that saw the ABC's managing director and the chair of its board go, with many questions still to be answered; meanwhile Scott Morrison gave the ongoing controversy over Australia Day a new lease of life.
The NSW Court of Criminal Appeal ruled that a man cannot be retried for the murders of two Indigenous children – a major blow to families of the victims in a nearly 30-year-old case.
Increased use of renewable energies could help curb climate change, but the water required for their production has dispossessed rural Guatemalans.
The ruling against the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline project doesn't mean the end of the oil and gas industry in Canada. Other projects and approaches could go forward.
Australia's record on women's rights will come under scrutiny, including its treatment of Indigenous women and girls, sexual harassment and violence against women.
In the 1800s, a group of Southeast Asians were taken to the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, now part of Australia, by an English merchant. Their descendants are seeking Indigenous status from Australia.
The Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion is fast becoming one of the most divisive issues in Canadian politics in years. Here's how a compromise can be reached.
The decision of the Canadian government to purchase the $4.5 billion Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion project doesn't exactly instil confidence in Canada's investment climate.
Bigali needed documents to claim back money she was due. But the same government demanding that proof was denying her access to it.
Indigenous water rights have been overlooked for a very long time. A bipartisan agreement on the Murray Darling Basin Plan may change that.
Identity politics can take an exclusionary or even predatory form, but can they also be more progressive and emancipatory?
The current choice of date for Australia Day is symbolic of the country we used to be – not the one we hope to become.
To finally succeed, the idea of an Indigenous voice to parliament must be argued as one that is fundamentally democratic.
2017 has felt like a chaotic year in Australian politics, and one in which policy progress has been swamped by other distractions. We can only hope that 2018 is calmer and more productive.
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Law Reform Solicitor/Clinical Legal Supervisor, Kingsford Legal Centre UNSW; Lecturer, UNSW Human Rights Clinic, UNSW
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Associate Professor and Director, Kingsford Legal Centre, UNSW
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Professor Environment and Development Sociology, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Canada Research Chair in Regional Innovation, University of Saskatchewan
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University of Western Australia
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne
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Professor of Human Rights Law, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer, Victoria University
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Associate Professor of Law, Bond University
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Associate Professor, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Associate Professor, UNSW Law School, UNSW
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Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow, The University of Queensland
