We estimate more than 200 communities across Australia do not have community drinking water fountains. That must change.
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What does ‘justice reinvestment’ mean in practice? Who makes funding decisions? To find out more, we consulted Aboriginal communities in Bourke, Moree and Mount Druitt.
It’s quite common to see whole Indigenous families on bikes – including pets and tiny children.
Changes in southern African rock art reflect the mixing of groups of people after they came into contact with each other.
More than a week into administration, Lula’s multicultural politics could not stand in starker contrast to Bolsonaro’s colourblind stance. Could they bring the country together?
The idea that human activity threatens nature, and that it is important to protect wild places, dates back to the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.
Almost 200 countries are reckoning with the world’s extraordinary loss of the variety of life at the COP15 nature summit in Canada. Here’s why Indigenous involvement is crucial.
After participation in the Literacy for Life Foundation adult literacy campaign, serious offences by students dropped by almost 65%.
Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says he will end land clearance in Brazil’s Amazon region. But powerful forces profit from rainforest destruction.
Indigenous people’s languages were largely lost as a result of forced assimilation efforts in the U.S. Here’s why one tribal leader says the languages should be brought back.
Countries across the Americas are tweaking their census to better understand their population, allowing them to create more responsive policies. The US still has a ways to go.
The population size of smaller communities is declining, and racism and discrimination are hindering its growth.
Pride Toronto has the opportunity to change its relationship with Indigenous and racialized people.
Parks and refuges are important for conservation, but without connections, they’re like islands. Linking them by protecting land in between makes it possible for wildlife to move over bigger areas.
By raising the Mauritian flag on the Chagos Islands, the east African nation has reasserted – if only symbolically – its claim to sovereignty.
If the local context and priorities of those who most directly rely on natural resources for their survival isn’t considered, conservation efforts will continue to fail.
A review of studies of Parramatta demonstrates an extensive deep-time archive of Indigenous activity extending over 14,000 years.
More than 100 nations have pledged to end deforestation by 2030. But there’s no mention of the need for Indigenous people to give their prior informed consent.
Indigenous people and communities are not monolithic. How they react to and deal with tragedy will be different. Acknowledging that will help us all heal.
Five climate-sensitive infectious diseases exist in the Torres Strait. Traditional Owners are calling on the UN for action.
Top contributors
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Professor of Economics and Public Policy, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Indigenous Health; Executive Director, Carumba Institute, Queensland University of Technology
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Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Archaeology, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Professor of Linguistics, Yale University
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Professor, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Executive Director, The Stronger Smarter Institute; Professor of Education, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor of Law, Griffith University
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Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney
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ARC Laureate Fellow, University of Adelaide
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Honorary Senior Lecturer, Australian National University
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Associate Professor, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Geography, School of Law and Society, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Lecturer in Anthropology, Durham University
