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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".
Whispering in our hearts
LONG BEFORE 1873, when William Christie Gosse ‘discovered’ the six-hundred-million-year-old sandstone monolith at the centre of Australia and called...
Changing the channel
LAST NIGHT, FOLLOWING the tenth anniversary of the national Apology to Australia’s Indigenous peoples, a former host of online...
Challenge of negotiation
THIRTY YEARS AGO, at Barunga in the Northern Territory, Prime Minister Bob Hawke promised a treaty. I was there,...
Enduring traditions of Aboriginal protest
NOBODY SEEMED QUITE capable of distinguishing John Noble from Jimmy Clements when the pair turned up for the royal...
Trick or treaty
AS JACQUI WANDIN gazes out over the rolling paddocks and scribbles of bushland, she can visualise the scene a...
Centre of controversy
ALICE SPRINGS TOWN centre is surrounded by three prominent hills, each of them sacred to Central Arrernte people, the...
The trench
DOCTOR JUNK STOPS his car facing the heavy white gate, from where he can see a few outlying buildings...
Less is less
A STRANGER RODE into town only it wasn’t a stranger, it was Kerry, come to say goodbye to Pop...
Hey ancestor!
Hey ancestor, you talking to me? Country time everyday. I know, I know, but wouldn’t you know it, it’s the 26th...
