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.
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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.
Top contributors
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Associate professor, Australian National University
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Managing Director, Her Story Consulting & Postdoctoral fellow, Australian National University
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Director Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, CI ARC Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence against Women (CEVAW), School of Philosophical, Historical & International Studies (SOPHIS), School of Social Sciences (SOSS), Faculty of Arts, Monash University
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Professor, Environmental Science, UNSW Sydney
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ARC Future Fellow, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor, School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Indigenous Research, University of Newcastle
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Associate Professor, University of Tasmania
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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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Professor, Indigenous Studies and Director of The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures, Macquarie University
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Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Criminology, UNSW Sydney
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PhD Candidate in Social Work and Criminology, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Economics and Public Policy, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
