'As I learn more about First Peoples’ plant knowledge, I'm also better understanding the broader Australian community's failure to recognise the depth and breadth of our expertise.'
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For non-Indigenous Australians, the last summer of bushfires seemed to mark the end times. Indigenous Australians have a long perspective on history, which offers hope.
Yes, transitioning Australia to a zero-carbon economy is essential, but the federal government must remedy this imbalance.
Across the NSW portion of the Murray-Darling Basin, Aboriginal people make up almost 10% of the population. Yet they hold a mere 0.2% of all available surface water.
Police played a unique role in many settler colonies executing assimilationist policies designed to dismantle First Nations families.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison's statement that 'there was no slavery in Australia' is at odds with the historical record.
The bushfire royal commission will look at incorporating Aboriginal knowledge into mainstream fire management. But in practice, what does that mean?
Two hundred years of forced dispossession cannot erase millennia of land ownership and connection to country.
An honest reckoning with Captain Cook’s legacy won’t heal things overnight. But it’s a start.
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The impact of 1770 has never eased for Aboriginal people. It was a collision of catastrophic proportions.
Botany was an integral feature of Britain’s colonial and imperial ambitions.
In past bushfire inquires, Aboriginal people have been mentioned only sparingly. When referenced now, it's only in relation to cultural burning. This must change.
The Flinders Ranges in South Australia is Adnyamathanha Country. A country of 600 million-year-old fossils and 45,000-year-old living culture.
Megan Davis on a First Nations Voice in the Constitution.
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Megan Davis says the idea of including an Indigenous Voice in the Constitution is being rejected on an understanding that "simply isn't true" but believes Australia has the "capacity to correct this".
New research shows just how many first people were needed to create a viable population in what is now Australia.
Australia was one of the most linguistically diverse places in the world but today, few people speak an Australian language.
Museums around the world hold remains of Aboriginal people that were often taken without permission and in the absence of accurate records. New DNA methods may help return these items to country.
At the Maningrida football Grand Final in 2015, commentary was recorded in nine languages. But elsewhere, the threat of language loss poses a serious risk to our nation’s cultural inheritance.
The NSW government has purchased the land where Bennelong is buried. His third wife played a key role in the early colonisation of Australia.
The 1991 Royal Commission into deaths in custody was preceded by an 1850 inquiry, which recommended that Aboriginal people be released should their health deteriorate in gaol.
For 60 years, native police were deployed in Queensland to 'disperse' Aboriginal communities (a euphemism for systematic killing). Unearthing their camps is a key part of reckoning with the violence of those times.
Principales colaboradores
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Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate professor, University of Tasmania
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David Bowman es Amigo de The Conversation.
Professor of Pyrogeography and Fire Science, University of Tasmania
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Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Models Theme Leader for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Flinders University
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Professor, Australian National University
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Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, and Associate Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University
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Research Fellow, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH), University of Wollongong
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Lecturer, Deakin University
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Research Fellow, Australian National University
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ARC Laureate Fellow, University of Adelaide
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Pro Vice Chancellor, Aboriginal Leadership, University of Tasmania
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Wesfarmers Chair of Australian History, University of Western Australia
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Honorary associate lecturer at the Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW
