A record 11 Indigenous representatives are now in federal parliament, most of them women. But despite the improvement in representation, research tells us their road ahead won’t be an easy one.
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Territorians will go to the polls for the next Northern Territory election only eight weeks after the July 2 election – blurring the lines between local controversies and how people vote federally.
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?
High-profile Indigenous Labor senator Nova Peris is quitting after just one term in parliament.
When Frances Abbott’s private scholarship award was “exposed”, when poetry professor Barry Spurr was outed for his inflammatory emails and when Senator Nova Peris was devastated by the leaking of her private…
Senator Nova Peris’ current travails around the NT News’ publication of intimate emails are a reminder to politicians and public figures everywhere that, like it or not, in today’s news culture there is…
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Journalism, Media and Communication, Queensland University of Technology
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na, Australian National University
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Associate Professor, specialising in Indigenous leadership, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Politics, Griffith University
