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Humans have shown that together we can overcome daunting problems, including deadly pathogens like smallpox. It is a lesson of international cooperation and respect that we should pay attention to.
An alternative holiday for Indigenous people doesn’t address the arguments against celebrating nationhood on a day that causes offence to some citizens.
Sgaawaay K'uuna (Edge of the Knife) is a feature film project that works to entertain audiences and revitalize language.
In the name of global development, the silent genocide of one of Brazil’s largest ethnic groups is taking place.
Despite the American Indian Religious Freedom Act, passed by the US Congress 40 years ago, Native Americans still struggle to protect public lands where they practice their religions.
Participants of roundtable forums in Australia and Indonesia last year agree that parents’ extended family and community hold an important role in caring for children within their first 1000 days.
Aboriginal Australians have effectively been on their country for as long as modern human populations have been outside of Africa. We have a limit as to how long ago that was: around 50,000 years.
A new map shows that more than 25% of all land outside Antarctica is held and managed by Indigenous peoples. This makes these communities vital allies in the global conservation effort.
The “Haida manga” by Indigenous artist Yahgulanaas opens a graphic dialogue between the different cultures of the Pacific Northwest and East Asia.
With enough will and resourcing, many of the structural issues that make financial services a trial for many Indigenous consumers can be overcome. But we need more regulation to deter sharp practice.
It’s been half a century since Jim Bowler discovered Mungo Lady, which changed the course of Australian history. But now he says the find has fallen off the national radar, leaving a legacy of shame.
In 2016, Venezuela opened up a large swath of the country to mining in an effort to prop up its economy. Now it is paying the environmental price.
Decades after the end of a civil war that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, the survivors’ search for justice goes on.
Bigali needed documents to claim back money she was due. But the same government demanding that proof was denying her access to it.
Identity politics can take an exclusionary or even predatory form, but can they also be more progressive and emancipatory?
Nearly 300 community organizers and activists have been killed in Colombia since the country’s 2016 peace accord. Who’s behind these targeted assassinations?
The federal government’s 2018 budget allocates almost $50 million over five years to support sports programs for Indigenous peoples. The problem? The money is going to a non-Indigenous organization.
Cyberbullying has become destructive and feels unstoppable. Here is a five-step technique for dealing with it.
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.
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Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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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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Professor of Latin American Studies and Geography, University of Florida
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Professor of Economics and Public Policy, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Professor, School of Social and Political Sciences, Director, The (so-called) Australian Centre, The University of Melbourne
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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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Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, UNSW Sydney
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Executive Director, The Stronger Smarter Institute; Professor of Education, University of Canberra
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Professor of Geography, University of Florida
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Professor of Geography, School of Law and Society, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Associate Professor, The University of Melbourne
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in History, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Law Faculty, Monash University
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Canada Research Chair in Global Indigenous Rights and Politics and Associate Professor in Political Science, Public Policy and Indigenous Studies, University of British Columbia
