The word Squ-w has an innocent origin, but its use in English has long been derogatory and racist. Place names which use this word should be changed.
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A Fremantle monument to three white explorers was revised in 1994 to acknowledge the violence committed against Indigenous owners. As Australia struggles to reconcile its racist past, perhaps this monument shows a way forward.
Many of our public commemorations honour people and incidents that brought great harm to others. We need to look at what that says about us, and how we build more inclusive public memorials.
Indigenous people recorded stories that provide much detail about eruptions in Australia. They can help us date natural events in the past and are legitimate sources of scientific information.
Anthropologist Percy Leason thought he was painting the extinction of Victoria’s Indigenous people in the 1930s. He was wrong, but his portraits, part of a new exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, are surprisingly sympathetic.
Research shows that the Globe and Mail has created a script in which marginalized youth can only be dealt with as failures or criminals, impacting the way they are perceived in society.
The revival of the idea of Indigenous influence on the origins of Australian rules football diverts attention from another, much more uncomfortable story about Indigenous relationships to football.
A 20th-century image of an anonymous ‘Aboriginal Chief’ becomes an investigation of power, colonialism and queer sexuality in the hands of Brook Andrew.
Murujuga, or the Burrup Peninsula, is home to over a million rock artworks. But as concern grows about the impact of industrial pollution on the art, the WA government continues to play down the area’s heritage value.
At many Spanish missions in the US and Latin America, the rising sun illuminates the altar on the winter solstice or other symbolic days. To the faithful, these events meant that Christ was with them.
A new book reveals the drama and comedy of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam’s famous “hand back” of Gurindji land in 1975, following the Wave Hill Walk-Off 50 years ago – and the bittersweet aftermath.
The Gurindji people of the Northern Territory made history 50 years ago by standing up for their rights to land and better pay. But a new book reveals the deeper story behind the Wave Hill Walk-Off.
Sports weekends are where family connections are sustained, and culture is infused into Australian football games played on country.
Twenty eight unarmed men, women and children were killed at Myall Creek on June 10, 1838. It was a sad, sombre place - but descendants of the perpetrators and victims have transformed it with a healing ritual.
The French capital will light up to the sights and sounds of Cleverman, Samson and Delilah, and The Sapphires.
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.
Detailed historical research on the colonial frontier unequivocally supports the idea that Aboriginal people were subject to attack, assault, conquest and subjugation: all synonyms for the term ‘invasion’.
Liberal MP Dennis Jensen’s comments about the ‘noble savage’ lifestyle tap into a centuries-old stereotype about Indigenous people.
Researchers aim to record the experiences of the last people to live under the control of the Aborigines Protection/Welfare Board in NSW as part of a complete history of its far-reaching impacts.
A new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrates 2,000 years of artistic achievement.
Top contributors
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Director/Chair of Aboriginal History - The Wollotuka Institute, University of Newcastle
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Associate Professor, School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University
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Professor of History, University of Winnipeg
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Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History, Case Western Reserve University
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Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, James Cook University
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Director of the Centre for Indigenous Studies; Associate Professor, Indigenous Studies and History, University of Toronto
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Professor, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, Convenor: Indigenous Land & Justice Research Group, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Geography, School of Law and Society, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Chair in Rock Art Research and Director of the Place, Evolution and Rock Art Heritage Unit (PERAHU), Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Languages and Linguistics, La Trobe University
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ARC Future Fellow, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor, University of Adelaide
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Professor in Public History, University of Technology Sydney
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Traditional Custodian — Kurnai, Indigenous Knowledge
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ANU Visiting Professor, Politics and International Relations, Australian National University
