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Bigali needed documents to claim back money she was due. But the same government demanding that proof was denying her access to it.
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.
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.
A strengthening movement of Indigenous designers and developers is working to show Indigenous cultures, teachings, languages and ways of knowing through video games.
In Nagaland, a northeastern state in India, the push to implement a law giving women more representation in local politics has triggered a violent backlash.
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?
Was academic Marcia Langton right about the rate of violence against Indigenous women?
Magnolia Maymuru, the Northern Territory's representative at the Miss World national finals, is a trailblazer. But will she escape the racialised exoticism that has long plagued Indigenous women?
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.
Parents in three Australian states are being given misleading advice about the dangers of lead to babies and small children – including failing to warn pregnant women about miscarriage risks.
Research suggests serious problems with the way Aboriginal women, particularly those with mental and cognitive disabilities, are "managed" by the criminal justice system.
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Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law; Deputy Director of the Indigenous Law Centre, UNSW
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Associate Professor, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Professor of Indigenous Research, University of Newcastle
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Associate professor, UNSW
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Lecturer in Development Studies, University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, Creative Writing and Literary Studies, School of Media, Entertainment and Creative Arts, Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor in Work and Organisation Studies, University of Essex
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Professor, University of Sydney Business School, University of Sydney
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ARC Future Fellow, La Trobe University
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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 of Public Health, William Paterson University
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Lecturer/Research Fellow in Housing and Urban Studies, Swinburne University of Technology
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Assistant Professor, University of Delhi
