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I LISTENED TO the radio broadcast of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s Closing the Gap address in parliament on 12...

By Marcia Langton

HIDDEN INSIDE THE Commonwealth – both the word and the idea – is a crucial concept: the commons. A...

By Tim Hollo

IT IS AN unseasonably wet August in the Rift Valley Province town of Iten. For two days it has...

By Jackie Lebo

I FOUNDED WOW – Women of the World Festival eight years ago out of sadness and love, and my...

By Jude Kelly

DEAR FORMER BRITISH Colonial Oppressors, I have an important message for you, which is being delivered rather late. Sorry about...

By Nury Vittachi

TWELVE YEARS AFTER William the Conqueror sailed across what is now known as the English Channel to invade England...

By Julianne Schultz

The Queen? The Queen never been fuggin walk around here! Uncle Jimmy Pike, Walmajarri artist[i] IN 2002, BUNDJALUNG songman Archie Roach...

WHEN THE GUARDIAN’S international editor, Anthony Hartley, visited Amsterdam in 1958, he was immediately struck by the quiet confidence...

By Stuart Ward

We will make better decisions on all the great issues of the day and for the century to come, if...

By Jenny Hocking

SHE HAS THE most recognisable face in contemporary Western history and she’s almost within my reach. The longest-reigning British...

and the bones are begging to be let loose with their drums and handbells, with their tales of the sea at...

By Gaiutra Bahadur

UBUNTU IS A word that makes me cringe. You might also know it as obuntu or unhu. It comes...

By MK Suubi