Indigenous peoples safeguard biodiversity better than any other group. But in 2018, 164 were killed defending the environment. It's time for us to heed their knowledge, and protect their future.
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Researchers have warned about the reliability of voice evidence in criminal cases. Yet, there are few legal guidelines on the use of such evidence in court.
A report on primary health care found New Zealand fails to deliver good outcomes for Māori because the state does not stand aside to allow Māori to take charge of their own affairs.
Open justice is in contest with other rights as the Northern Territory considers a bill to ban the media from juvenile court cases.
Support for Māori and Pasifika communities was a funding priority in New Zealand's well-being budget, but a change in values may have greater impact than more money.
Last week's attempted removal of a newborn Māori baby from his family highlights the issue that indigenous children are much more likely to be taken into state care, in New Zealand and other countries.
A new federal program aims to reduce diesel-dependency in remote Indigenous communities. But are these communities able to do this on their own terms?
Some of the Coalition government's initiatives on women and Indigenous issues have been more successful than others. Labor is promising much more.
The U.S-Mexico border runs through Native American territories. A wall would further divide these communities, separating children from schools, farmers from water and families from each other.
Instead of paying lip service to promoting Indigenous Australians' rights as First Nations, the next federal government should be guided by the Uluru Statement from the Heart to make real progress.
Progress, in historical terms, has so often meant clearing places of their native inhabitants – both human and non-human.
Neither of the two federal investigations into fish deaths in the Darling River include any Indigenous representation.
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.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University
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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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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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Professor, School of Social and Political Sciences, Co-Director, Indigenous-Settler Relations Collaboration, 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
