As the debate around celebrating Australia Day on January 26 continues, new research shows Australians have mixed views of it as a national day.
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One of the ‘first white women’ to travel in the Northern Territory, Elsie Masson’s attitudes to the Aboriginal people she met expressed the contradictions of racial thought at this time.
Aboriginal songs found in the notebooks of a Victorian anthropologist shed light on the mystery of a ‘captive white woman’ that has been debated for generations.
The image, depicting a group of Indigenous people resisting their enslavement, predates the next oldest image by 75 years.
Aboriginal children are rarely named in the colonial archive. But the remarkable story of Dirimera and Conaci reveals two boys who, while removed from their land, had a keen sense of sovereignty.
It is 50 years since anthropologist W.E.H. Stanner gave the Boyer Lectures in which he coined the phrase ‘the great Australian silence’. How far have we come since?
In the forests around the Murray River, Victoria’s Watti Watti people have trained trees to mark significant cultural locations in the landscape.
Like many Australian museums, collectors for the Queensland Museum played a role in the violent dispossession of First Nations people.
Where else but on the sports field can an under-educated and even a troubled Aboriginal youth achieve celebrity status and social mobility?
Social media posts since Gerald Stanley’s acquittal have been saturated with vitriolic rants and myths. If reconciliation is to be more than an aspiration, settlers must acknowledge our culpability.
That colonial wars were fought in Tasmania is irrefutable. More controversially, surviving evidence suggests the British enacted genocidal policies against the Tasmanian Aboriginal people.
Canadians should be listening closely to stories coming from the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. We need to hear the truth and then help justice move forward.
Over the past half century, Australia has experienced a ‘time revolution’ with Indigenous history pushed back into the dizzying expanse of deep time. The latest discovery reminds us that science, like history, is an ongoing inquiry.
Just 210 of nearly 13,000 biographical entries in the Australian Dictionary of Biography are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men and women. A new project aims to change this.
Australian universities are teaching ‘identity politics’ at the expense of Western history, according to an Institute of Public Affairs report. But unis make decisions based on student demand, not politics.
An Aboriginal man shoots a white landowner in self-defence, triggering a tragic tale of racism in 1920s Northern Territory.
Anti-immigrant policies ignore that American ideals like liberty, equality and the pursuit of happiness can be traced back to the indigenous pioneers who once moved freely across North America.
The word Squ-w has an innocent origin, but its use in English has long been derogatory and racist. Place names which use this word should be changed.
A Fremantle monument to three white explorers was revised in 1994 to acknowledge the violence committed against Indigenous owners. As Australia struggles to reconcile its racist past, perhaps this monument shows a way forward.
Many of our public commemorations honour people and incidents that brought great harm to others. We need to look at what that says about us, and how we build more inclusive public memorials.
Top contributors
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Director/Chair of Aboriginal History - The Wollotuka Institute, University of Newcastle
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Associate Professor, School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor, University of Adelaide
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Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History, Case Western Reserve University
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Sean Ulm is a Friend of The Conversation.
Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, James Cook University
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Professor in Public History, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, Convenor: Indigenous Land & Justice Research Group, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Geography, School of Law and Society, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Chair in Rock Art Research and Director of the Place, Evolution and Rock Art Heritage Unit (PERAHU), Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Languages and Linguistics, La Trobe University
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ARC Future Fellow, La Trobe University
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ARC Laureate Fellow, Monash University, Director of Global Encounters Program., Monash University
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Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH), University of Wollongong
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ANU Visiting Professor, Politics and International Relations, Australian National University
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Senior Curator of Australian and First Nations Art, National Gallery of Victoria, The University of Melbourne
