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Ancestors’ words
NO ONE WAS surprised when, in 1977, the Western Australian Government put a blanket ban on its recently decommissioned...
Lost opportunities
GRIFFITH REVIEW IS not, according to its ‘Writers’ Guidelines’, an ‘academic journal’. This leads me to pause and consider...
Decolonising the north
THE TURNBULL GOVERNMENT’S initial response to the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern...
Hope and conflict at the MCG
THE ADULTS STARE hard, looks of panic rip through the crowd. A curiously dressed man in clinical white clothing...
A century of activism and heartache
Where Aboriginal people are concerned, the twin strands of dysfunction and idealisation weave a highly coloured thread through the fabric...
The imperial mind
IT IS A common vanity among humans that our ascent is an exponential trajectory applauded by gods. Our religions encourage...
Owning the science
SCIENCE AND RESEARCH has an important role to play in the fundamental debate Australians are now having about the...
The voice of Indigenous data
THE ULURU STATEMENT from the Heart is essentially the same missive as sent by Tasmanians Walter and Mary Anne...
Imagining abolition
Proportionally, we are the most incarcerated people on the planet. We are not an innately criminal people. Our children...
A question of value
IN AUGUST 2016, I stood on the sacred ceremonial grounds of the Yolngu, the people of north-east Arnhem Land,...
Preparing the treaty generation
ON 25 JULY 2016 I was in a paediatric roundtable at Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital, where we discussed early...
Resilience and reconstruction
Wiyi yani, Galinda yani 'All women, all girls' Wina nginyji: Mimi, Ngowiji, Ngarranyi, Ngawiy, Jugu, Manay, Ngaja, Manggay, Gunday, Jimarri, 'Whether you...
