Almost a year after the Voice proposal was defeated, blame and recrimination are still being thrown around, and the government is still reeling from Albanese’s overreach.
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Anthony Albanese will switch the focus in Indigenous affairs policy towards the economic empowerment of First Nations communities, in a speech at the Garma Festival in Arnhem Land on Saturday.
The rate of suicide among Indigenous Australians is increasing, as is the rate of children in out-of-home care, according to the latest Closing the Gap report released by the Productivity Commission. Assessing…
After the referendum loss, the government hasn’t had much of a plan for Indigenous Australians. The new minister’s biggest challenge will be making one.
On Tuesday the government will present its latest implementation plan for Closing the Gap. Which provides a major test for the government as it prepares the next steps after the referendum.
An activist from a young age, it was in her role as inaugural chair of ATSIC that O'Donoghue changed advocacy on Indigenous issues.
Despite the best of intentions, the prime minister’s determination to take Australians to a referendum on the Voice to Parliament has caused tremendous damage.
In the end, the “yes” case failed to answer two basic questions: what was the problem to be solved, and how would the Voice help solve it?
Could the vote affect the way the world views Australia and potentially have an impact on Australia’s international relations?
Voice supporters are not looking for division, but rather a desire to play a role in the future of a nation that accepts it’s our country, too.
The decline in support for the Voice after initial strong polling demonstrates settlers are resistant to the idea of Indigenous peoples as a collective subject entitled to a unified Voice.
Many Liberal politicians have been passionate about redressing Indigenous disadvantage, but have come unstuck by the pitfall of ‘settler liberalism’.
Despite all the arguments flying around the Voice offers one simple thing: a long overdue way for Indigenous consensuses to develop and find their rightful place in national politics.
Stepping down to the backbench and going against the overwhelming view of your party on a critical issue takes a good deal of political courage.
In the struggle against aqua nullius, Indigenous people’s right to make decisions about water on Country is a priority.
We cannot allow climate change mitigation and adaptation to become another colonial process of dispossession and disempowerment.
Sacred trees are a cornerstone of our national identity. They transcend simple economics and sit at the centre of the sacred — sentinels in ceremony, birthing and burials.
These issues matter to our strategic allies, particularly in the Pacific. Dutton’s climate change scepticism and attitudes toward First Nations people could have a damaging effect.
This new Australian documentary follows 12-year-old Dujuan Hoosan from Garrwa country to Geneva.
It’s a devastating loss, but the destruction of a culturally significant Aboriginal site is not an isolated incident. Rio Tinto was acting within the law.
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