Three years on from Uluru, we must lift the blindfolds of liberalism to make progress
Stan Grant, Charles Sturt University
The Uluru Statement from the Heart offered a new compact with all Australians that would reset...
'They are all dead': for Indigenous people, Cook's voyage of 'discovery' was a ghostly visitation
Alison Page, University of Technology Sydney
Captain James Cook arrived in the Pacific 250 years ago, triggering British colonisation of the...
250 years since Captain Cook landed in Australia, it's time to acknowledge the violence of first encounters
Phoebe Roth, The Conversation; Sophia Morris, The Conversation, and Sunanda Creagh, The Conversation
Captain James Cook arrived in the...
Captain Cook 'discovered' Australia, and other myths from old school text books
A picture titled ‘Captain Cook taking possession of the Australian continent on behalf of the British crown, AD 1770’. Drawn and engraved by...
The 'great Australian silence' 50 years on
Detail from Julie Shiels’ 1954 poster White on black: The annihilation of Aboriginal people and their culture cannot be separated from the destruction of nature.
State Library of Victoria
Anna...
Beyond lacking all merit, Abbott’s previous policies on Indigenous issues had been characterised by funding cuts, exclusions and silencing. His Indigenous Advancement Strategy was criticised for its destructive consequences to governance within Indigenous communities
Why Tony Abbott's appointment as...