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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.
A transactional mental health system fails to accommodate consumers’ needs for human connection and understanding. Elders in Perth are helping to transform this system.
The energy transition requires the development of new infrastructure, which can have adverse effects on the environment and on certain communities.
Our new report makes 12 recommendations for how industry, government, educators and First Nations communities can create jobs and fulfilling careers in clean energy.
As we launch into a Future Made in Australia, we need to map and better understand the social and economic risks – as well as potential benefits – for remote and disadvantaged communities.
While they may have fallen short of Eurovision glory, Electric Fields still blazed a trail for First Nations representation.
Lowering Indigenous incarceration rates is a key aim of the Closing The Gap targets, but there are more First Nations people behind bars than ever. How did this happen and what can fix it?
The Northern Territory’s Indigenous population predominantly voted ‘Yes’ to a Voice to Parliament. Despite the referendum’s ‘No’ outcome, the Northern Territory is making moves to self determination.
Truth-telling is at the heart of a new project re-examining an expedition in Queensland’s Cape York Peninsula. This research aims to address the absence of Aboriginal voices in this history.
Australia lags the US and Canada when it comes to involving Indigenous people in projects on their land. With the growth of renewable energy we have an opportunity to make a fresh start.
Tools such as ChatGPT dominate the conversation around AI in schools. But with teachers looking to meet Indigenous content requirements, using generative AI could do more harm than good.
Zenadth Kes peoples (or Torres Strait Islanders) have a tiny population, but they’ve been highly effective in creating distinctive laws to protect their culture and way of life.
After the Voice to Parliament referendum, researchers asked a sample of Australians how they felt about issues including changing the date of Australia Day.
The Australian War memorial recently announced it will extend its exhibition to recognise the Frontier Wars, where Aboriginal resistance fighters fought in retaliation to massacres and other attacks.
In the aftermath of a disappointing Voice referendum, Indigenous politicians are looking to the United Nations Declaration for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as a potential way forward.
Through many social inequities, First Nations peoples are more likely to experience poor mental health. A new review shows how physical activity that includes cultural practices can help.
We interviewed Indigenous business owners, managers and employees to explore how these businesses support strong levels of Indigenous employment.
A royal commission into sexual abuse in Aboriginal communities is not the way to address abuse against Aboriginal children. Indigenous-led solutions are needed.
Frontier violence was widespread across colonial Queensland and has real life implications for contemporary Australia.
Top contributors
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Professor, Critical Indigenous Studies and Director of The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures, Macquarie 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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Principal Research Fellow, James Cook University
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Research Fellow, Monash University
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PhD Candidate, University of Technology Sydney
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Managing Director, Her Story Consulting & Postdoctoral fellow, Australian National University
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Chancellor's Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney
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Lecturer in Political Science/Indigenous Politics (First Peoples), Griffith University
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Research Fellow, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Queensland, The University of Queensland
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Research Fellow (Indigenous Diplomacy), Australian National University
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Lecturer, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, Griffith Law School, Griffith University
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Professor, National Centre for Reconciliation, Truth, and Justice, Federation University Australia
