University "Indigenization" efforts using Massive Open Online Courses promise to reach wide audiences. They also raise critical questions about how to embody Indigenous ways of knowing and relating.
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What does the ongoing involvement of Australia in the Commonwealth Games teach us about our cities and the relationship between sport and politics?
When did Australia’s human history begin?
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Today's episode of Essays On Air, the audio version of our Friday essay series, seeks to move beyond the view of ancient Australia as a timeless and traditional foundation story.
Research shows that Indigenous women are at greatest risk of injury within Canada. Income, education and housing inequities play a role. So does systemic racism and post-colonial trauma.
A leading Indigenous academic says too many Canadians take ugly pleasure in being ignorant about Indigenous issues. It's time for some straight talk about Settlers with Opinions.
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.
A new report recognises that no two Indigenous suicides are identical, then skilfully identifies common themes for informing responses that have the potential to save lives.
Chair of the Prime Minister’s Indigenous Advisory Council, Warren Mundine, told Q&A that $30 billion is spent every year on 500,000 Indigenous people in Australia. Is that right?
There is an ongoing trend of low workforce participation among Indigenous people, research demonstrates eight ways to improve this.
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'.
Sarah Hanson-Young told Q&A that Indigenous children are currently ten times more likely to be living out of home. Is that right?
From 2016, students will be able to study Aboriginal languages in high schools in New South Wales – but a clause in the design of the course means grades will not contribute towards ATARs.
The predictable path into prison for Aboriginal people with disabilities is preventable. Here are some solutions.
Research suggests serious problems with the way Aboriginal women, particularly those with mental and cognitive disabilities, are "managed" by the criminal justice system.
Australia's high rates of imprisonment and re-imprisonment of Aboriginal people with mental and cognitive disabilities is not only shameful, it is entirely predictable and preventable.
Being rooted is different from being connected or even grounded. As we know from our mobile phones, connectivity can be fleeting. Grounding is only at surface layers. Being rooted goes as deep in the earth as above in the sky, providing greater stability.
New Zealand's relationship with its Indigenous people and knowledge of their language far exceeds Australia's.
Up to 150 'communities' in 'remote' Australia are threatened with closure. But do such terms put a gloss on what is, in reality, the closure of people's homes?
Since 2004, the number of prisoners in South Australia has risen seven times faster than the state's net population growth – and nearly doubled its rate of locking up Indigenous Australians.
Recently, Tony Abbott asserted the government couldn't afford to fund the "lifestyle choices" of remotely-based Aboriginal people. But such communities could be key to meeting the demands of our future.
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Senior Research Fellow, UNSW
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Professor of Criminology, UNSW
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PhD Candidate in Social Work and Criminology, UNSW
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Associate Professor, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer in Australian Studies, Flinders University
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Lecturer, Faculty of Health Sciences, Australian Catholic University
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Wood Jones Professor of Anthropological and Comparative Anatomy, University of Adelaide
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Aboriginal Studies, Curtin University
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Emeritus Professor of Law and Honorary Professor of Medicine, University of Sydney
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ARC Indigenous Research Fellow, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, First Year College, Victoria University
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Senior Lecturer and Deputy Director, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Law Faculty, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology
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Kerin O'Dea is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of Population Health and Nutrition, University of South Australia
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Visiting Scholar, Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney
