Indigenous Australia
Sorry Day 2016: Saying sorry is nowhere near enough

On Sorry Day 2016, David Donovan recollects growing up in the bush and becoming aware of the ...  
Anzac Day and the war to end all wars

Let's make Anzac Day about trying to end war rather than about glorifying it, writes managing ...  
Utopia: The dirty secret of Indigenous Australia

Nine years after the Howard Government's "Intervention" conditions are dire for Indigenous Aus ...  
Constitutional Recognition fades as momentum builds for a Treaty

Momentum for a Treaty is building following many influential Indigenous Australians rejecting ...  
Invading our smugness: Thoughts on a diversity toolkit

The Murdoch press are outraged a university is teaching that Australia was invaded — but when ...  
Racism or placism?

Nader Galil discusses Adam Goodes’ fight for a tolerant multicultural Australia and argues that ...  
Ignorant Alan Jones and the Stolen Generations

Shock jock Alan Jones has declared that Indigenous Australians need more Stolen Generations. ...  
Indigenous Australia and an Australian Republic: Moving in the same direction

Meaningful self-determination for First Australians is not even a remote possibility while the ...  
Murdoch spreads the IPA’s porkies about ‘the Andrew Bolt law’

The campaign to rehabilitate one of the most notorious racist liars in the English-speaking world ...  
Why didn't The Canberra Times report on the Invasion Day protest in Canberra?

John Passant asks why the whitewash of the Invasion Day protest in Canberra by The Canberra ...  
A Day of Shame in the Land of No Fair Go

Forget pride, achievement, nationalism and the inevitable mindless jingoism normally associated ...  
Australia Day: Invasion Day

Natalie Cromb, IA's Indigenous affairs editor, asks us to give thought to those that are mou ...  
Australia's day for secrets, flags and cowards

John Pilger writes about the significance of 26 January for Indigenous Australians — a history ...  
Commercialisation and the casualness of going to war

John Menadue calls for an end to the commercialisation of Gallipoli and Anzac, to put the drums ...  
Five big nuclear issues for 2016 — and Australia's role in them

Nuclear issues got next to no discussion in Australia in 2015. That is sure to change in 2016 from ...  
The beginnings of Ashbygate

In a speech at the Ashbygate book launch on Thursday (10/12/15) in Caloundra, managing editor ...  
Racism targets Indigenous people more than any other group

A report released on last month by the UNSW paints a bleak picture of justice for Indigenous ...  
Inquest into death of Ms Dhu in police custody exposes institutional racism

A terminally ill woman is gaoled for unpaid fines of $3,622 and, rather than receiving urgent ...  

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