The failed and continually failing political leadership on respect, relationships and reconciliation sets back the quality of current and future education for all Australians.
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Using equivalent year levels provides us with a clearer picture of the gap for Indigenous students, who can be up to an equivalent of 7.7 years behind their non-Indigenous counterparts in writing.
In an article published in the lead up to Australia Day, WA Liberal Party policy committee chairman Sherry Sufi said “native title can only exist if Australia was settled, not invaded”. Is that right?
Clay Stories, a travelling exhibition, showcases ceramic art from Indigenous artists across the country. It is a triumphant display of specific stories and Dreamings, standing against cultural and political amnesia.
Some remote Australian communities have access to drinking water for only nine hours a day but can use ten times the average of urban households.
The government has rejected the Referendum Council’s call for a national Indigenous representative assembly to be put into the Constitution.
Indigenous youth are over-representation in juvenile detention centres, and excluding them from education could make this worse.
If the government is to continue to spend millions toward sending Indigenous children away to boarding school, we need research into how effective this model is, and its impact on communities.
Indigenous peoples have very little power when it comes to education policy. Goals, targets and strategies are instead set by the government.
Ken Thaiday Snr, an internationally-acclaimed artist from Erub Island in the Torres Strait, has been awarded a 2017 Red Ochre Award. Thaiday’s work draws on dance, the people and land of the islands to produce elaborate masks and headdresses.
A new report recognises that no two Indigenous suicides are identical, then skilfully identifies common themes for informing responses that have the potential to save lives.
New reports show a widespread lack of care for the cultural needs of many of the 19,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in child protection and out-of-home care.
Indigenous people make up small percentages of the population in many countries – but using social media, Indigenous voices can be heard worldwide. Here are a dozen deadly Australians worth following.
The Recognition of Aboriginal Customary Laws examined the interaction between two legal systems – one based in British law and the other in the customary laws of the Aboriginal peoples of Australia.
The ALRC report made some useful recommendations about how settler law could deal more fairly with Aboriginal people by taking their traditions and customs into account.
The process of constitutional recognition was initially to be completed by 2013, but is now being directed towards a referendum in May 2017 to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1967 referendum.
In many ways, the “great Australian silence” about Indigenous history, pointed out by eminent anthropologist W.E.H. Stanner back in 1968, still endures in this country some 50 years later.
Despite significant shortcomings in the negotiation, content and honouring of treaties, they continue to define the nature of the relationship between most Native Americans and the United States.
Boneta-Marie Mabo’s art responds to a colonial past in which Aboriginal women were fetishised as “black velvet”. But it also celebrates strong women, including her activist grandmother Bonita Mabo.
In some Indigenous communities, the ratio of programs to people served is possibly the highest in the world. Somehow, for many, Closing the Gap remains an elusive goal. A rethink is needed.
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Professor, Indigenous Studies and Director of The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures, Macquarie University
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Managing Director, Her Story Consulting & Postdoctoral fellow, Australian National University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Research Fellow, Monash University
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Associate Dean Education, Gnibi College, Southern Cross University
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Director Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, CI ARC Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence against Women (CEVAW), School of Philosophical, Historical & International Studies (SOPHIS), School of Social Sciences (SOSS), Faculty of Arts, Monash University
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PhD Candidate, University of Technology Sydney
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Lecturer, Griffith Law School, Griffith University
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Lecturer, Department of Indigenous Studies, Macquarie University
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Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Queensland, The University of Queensland
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Chancellor's Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney
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Research Fellow (Indigenous Diplomacy), Australian National University
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Principal Research Fellow, James Cook University
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Senior Lecturer in Indigenous Studies, Swinburne University of Technology
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Lecturer, Curtin University
