To address the climate and biodiversity crises, we must stop criminalizing Indigenous Peoples for exercising their treaty rights and start upholding them instead.
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Watch 30 years since Mabo, a live-streamed event hosted by State Library of Queensland and The Conversation honouring the activism of Eddie Mabo.
When judges, legislators, and policymakers neglect the foundational dynamics of indigenous customs, they worsen conflict between indigenous laws and state laws.
Canada’s new governor general will have to fuse the British, French, American and Indigenous elements of Canada that together are the core of the country.
Indigenous land defenders: Don’t Call Me Resilient EP 6 transcript.
South African customary law should be understood from the perspective of dissonance between the past and the present.
Two new coins released by the Royal Australian Mint celebrate Indigenous astronomers, who have used the stars to map changing seasons, inform the behaviours of plants and animals, and encode Law.
The fact that so many Canadian pension funds are tied to oil and gas companies is a deeply structural form of racialized oppression and a denial of Indigenous rights.
Canada is at a critical crossroads. The Wet’suwet’en conflict brings us to a deciding moment in Canada, one that will shape the future of the nation.
Governments and corporations seem to understand that the landscape of Indigenous resistance has shifted.
Laws in other countries recognise ‘rights of nature’. But even trees sacred to Indigenous Australian communities have no special protection.
To make meaningful progress on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Calls to Action, all provinces and territories should promptly follow B.C. and ban discriminatory ‘birth alerts.’
There are memorial stones scattered along songlines throughout the Australian landscape, victims and transgressors transformed into rock following epic struggles to stand as cautionary tales.
The Bomvana say the global development agenda has created division because it sees people as individuals rather than primarily as members of a collective.
The Victorian government plans to destroy trees and sites sacred to Djab Warrung people to make way for the Western Highway at the same time as it seeks heritage listing for the Eastern Freeway.
Laws and policies that marginalize Indigenous people and communities make these same people vulnerable to disaster.
It’s time for a more reasonable, hybrid definition of civilisation that incorporates our Indigenous heritage.
A recent historical win for Ontario First Nations against the government of Canada is as significant for the legal process, which took into account Anishinaabe law, as it is for the win itself.
The headlines suggest the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled against Indigenous consultation. But its recent ruling is much more nuanced and complex than that.
Indigenous people are seriously questioning whether Canada is truly changing following the acquittal of the man accused of killing Colten Boushie. A Mi'kmaq lawyer explains the despair.
Top contributors
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Director, Centre for Legal Integration in Africa, University of the Western Cape
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Interim Director, Urban Futures Enabling Impact Platform, and Professor in Sustainability and Urban Policy, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Professor, Environment and Development Sociology, The University of Queensland
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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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Associate Professor, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Peace and Conflict Studies, The University of Queensland
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Adjunct Senior Fellow, Law Futures Centre, Griffith University
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Professor of Ethnography, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of law, Australian National University
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Professor of Urban Planning, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Professor of American Literature and Culture; Native American Studies, University of Denver
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Senior Lecturer Indigenous Knowledges, Deakin University
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Adjunct Research Fellow, Environmental Management, James Cook University
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Assistant Professor and Chancellor's Chair in Aboriginal Law and Policy, Dalhousie University
