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Re-imagining Parramatta
THERE ARE JACKHAMMERS everywhere. A new Parramatta is emerging out of the rubble, seeking to make real its tag line:...
History never repeats?
RECENTLY, I WATCHED worried policemen and politicians denounce the crimes of Sudanese Australians. If you only caught the headlines, you...
Not another diversity panel
WHAT I WANT is for three people to speak to you. Merlinda Bobis, Julie Koh and Mammad Aidani. You may...
Sentenced to discrimination
ON AUSTRALIA DAY in 2016, artist Elizabeth Close was at an Adelaide shopping centre speaking to her young daughter...
Settling and making a place
AUSTRALIA WAS THE last continent to experience the transformation wrought by new settlers arriving to make it their own....
Gifts from China
A VISITOR TO China will often hear about the four great inventions that China has given the world: paper,...
The limits of the colonial mind
I AM NOT original to this land, having just relocated to Australia from Canada, but a recent welcome to...
Return to country
WHEN DR TIMOTHY White spins a yarn he attracts an audience – capturing the listener with his imaginative use...
Sharing country, sharing sovereignty
We acknowledge our Yawuru Elders and their organisation we work with and for, who have generously given us permission...
The courage to reform
LAST YEAR MARKED the fiftieth anniversary of the 1967 constitutional referendum. I was only four years old when the...
Learning from experience
THE CONFERENCE OF Indigenous leaders from the public sector, convened by the Australian and New Zealand School of Government...
The long road to Uluru
Uluru is a game changer. The response of ordinary Australians to the Statement has been overwhelming…a rallying call to the Australian people to “walk with us in a movement…for a better future".
