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Open justice is in contest with other rights as the Northern Territory considers a bill to ban the media from juvenile court cases.
Support for Māori and Pasifika communities was a funding priority in New Zealand’s well-being budget, but a change in values may have greater impact than more money.
Last week’s attempted removal of a newborn Māori baby from his family highlights the issue that indigenous children are much more likely to be taken into state care, in New Zealand and other countries.
A new federal program aims to reduce diesel-dependency in remote Indigenous communities. But are these communities able to do this on their own terms?
Some of the Coalition government’s initiatives on women and Indigenous issues have been more successful than others. Labor is promising much more.
The U.S-Mexico border runs through Native American territories. A wall would further divide these communities, separating children from schools, farmers from water and families from each other.
Instead of paying lip service to promoting Indigenous Australians’ rights as First Nations, the next federal government should be guided by the Uluru Statement from the Heart to make real progress.
Progress, in historical terms, has so often meant clearing places of their native inhabitants – both human and non-human.
Neither of the two federal investigations into fish deaths in the Darling River include any Indigenous representation.
Australia’s government can do more to ensure Australian mining companies do no harm in pursuit of Africa’s mineral wealth.
The We'suwet'en First Nation is fighting the Coastal GasLink pipeline project, which would stretch nearly 700 kilometres across northern B.C. through their unceded land.
Indigenous Australians are vastly over-represented in the prison population, but the success of a new program is offering hope that it can be turned around.
In New Zealand, sovereignty is disputed, but the Maori case for sharing it with settlers underscores the limits of First Nations consultation in Canada.
The Australian justice system must do more to acknowledge the colonial system on which it is built, which inherently privileges whiteness.
It was a week that saw the ABC’s managing director and the chair of its board go, with many questions still to be answered; meanwhile Scott Morrison gave the ongoing controversy over Australia Day a new lease of life.
The NSW Court of Criminal Appeal ruled that a man cannot be retried for the murders of two Indigenous children – a major blow to families of the victims in a nearly 30-year-old case.
Increased use of renewable energies could help curb climate change, but the water required for their production has dispossessed rural Guatemalans.
The ruling against the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline project doesn’t mean the end of the oil and gas industry in Canada. Other projects and approaches could go forward.
Australia’s record on women’s rights will come under scrutiny, including its treatment of Indigenous women and girls, sexual harassment and violence against women.
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Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, and Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Acting Executive Director, Grata Fund, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor and Director, Kingsford Legal Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Co-Director, Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, and Professor of Public Administration, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Professor of Law, University of Waikato
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PhD student of law, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)
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Professor of Indigenous Health; Executive Director, Carumba Institute, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in History, Australian Catholic University
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Tom Calma is a Friend of The Conversation.
Chancellor, University of Canberra
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Professor of Law, Australian Catholic University
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Professor, Environment and Development Sociology, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Linguistics, The University of Queensland
