Indigenous Australia
From Left to Right and back again: The Donald Horne enigma

A new selection of writings by iconoclastic social commentator and historian Donald Horne has ...  
Support marriage equality? Yes. We do!

Independent Australia strongly supports marriage equality — as we support justice, fairness ...  
Héritier Lumumba and the AFL’s problem with race

After the resignation of two prominent footballers, it seems the AFL has learnt little about its ...  
Scullion sends Indigenous Advancement funding to Australia Day celebrations

Why were next year’s Australia Day celebrations going to be funded via the Government’s ...  
Systemic failures lead to Aboriginal death in custody in NSW

The NSW Coroner finds systemic failures led to the suicide death of an Indigenous man in a NSW ...  
Voices of reason call for immediate end to NT Indigenous Intervention

Hundreds of eminent Australians will tomorrow in Melbourne add their support to Indigenous calls ...  
Plebiscite fever and the First Nations: Peering into the leadership abyss

Progress towards a treaty or treaties with Australia's First Nations is hampered by a number of ...  
Did we kill Dr Yunupingu? Poor fellow my country

Dr Yunupingu did not need to die; he was killed by a system that abandoned him, writes contribu ...  
Drowning in White privilege

The First Nations community is both reeling and in mourning; Indigenous affairs editor Natalie ...  
Inequality not just about wealth but also about power

Inequality is growing because there is an uneven distribution of power.  
Dr G Yunupingu: And now a deafening silence

Internationally acclaimed Indigenous musician Dr G Yunupingu has died at age 46 following a long ...  
Elijah Doughty's death was murder

"Dangerous driving occasioning death" is crap — 14-year-old Elijah Doughty was killed by murd ...  
Dutton's Austasi — Turnbull's worst decision yet

Making Peter Dutton tsar over an immense Homeland Security-style department is easily Turnbull's ...  
Why Marcia Langton is wrong on Adani

For all her powerful and peerless leadership of Aboriginal rights, Professor Marcia Langton has it ...  
After Mabo: Removing the stain of racism with his vision for a Great Society

Author, journalist and activist Jeff McMullen delivered this speech at the 25th Anniversary Mabo ...  
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MEMBERS ONLY EDITORIAL: Healing the hole in the Heart

Last week, after a summit at Uluru, Indigenous Australians released a statement rejecting token ...  
The Uluru walkout: Constitutional recognition, Treaty and structural change

Several Indigenous delegates walked out of a Constitutional recognition summit yesterday. Natalie ...  
Turnbull and Shorten: No leadership in Indigenous Recognition

Turnbull and Shorten have "respectfully declined" to attend the Uluru Convention, indicatin ...  

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