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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.
Neither constitution protections nor protests have prevented the Mapuche and their allies from suffering at the hands of the Argentine state.
Australia's track record on racial equality and tackling racism is under review – and the findings will have significant implications.
Despite its dubious ancestry, the popular vote on same-sex marriage has done its job, delivering an overall majority and majorities in all states and territories.
The UN report findings show that concerns far outweigh any improvements in Australia's human rights record.
Closing Uluru to climbers is vital to the preservation, maintenance and on-going development of culture, traditions and knowledge.
The disappearance of Santiago Maldonado in Argentine Patagonia is part of the global conflict between the forces of capital and indigenous rights.
More than 200 remote communities in Canada rely on diesel fuel for energy. Cleaner options could fuel a better quality of life.
Australia came in for some harsh criticism from the UN Human Right Committee in regard to its treatment of Indigenous issues – a problem that must now seriously be addressed.
They are contesting the maps that deny them territorial rights.
Shattered by powerful back-to-back earthquakes, Mexico is facing daunting damages across six states. Now Chiapas and Oaxaca, the country's two poorest states, which were hit first, fear neglect.
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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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Associate Professor Environment and Development Sociology, The University of Queensland
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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 of Political Science, Charles Sturt University
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ARC Future Fellow in Linguistics, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, La Trobe University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
