Indigenous Australia shuffled from front and centre to forgotten people
Anthony Albanese’s first words on election night 2022 placed Indigenous people front and centre of the new Labor government. Three years later, they rated virtually no mention.
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‘I’m happy to kick off our feminist movement’: Price
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price says she will kick off a feminist movement of Indigenous women in a Coalition government.
London museum returns Indigenous remains
The remains of 36 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people will be flown back to Australia at the weekend before a special ceremony on Monday at the Queensland Museum.
Backlash against Price protest
The Noongar leader inviting others to join him in a protest against Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s visit to the WA city of Bunbury last year described Australia as ‘the most racist country on the face of the earth’.
Police, security gear up for Price
Australian Federal Police, state police and private security specialists are preparing for protests by Aboriginal opponents of senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price in WA’s Bunbury.
Native title plight is out of sight, out of mind for politicians
No referendum is needed to fix this issue, which could involve billions of dollars nationally. Just a bit of political will by federal and state Labor would do it.
‘He bashed me before I’ve murdered him’
A Darwin woman accused of murdering her rapist partner allegedly told police she did so because ‘he bashed me before I’ve murdered him’.
‘I’ll remember’: Law lecturer warned students over Indigenous history ‘walkout’ | LISTEN
A University of Queensland law lecturer berated first year law students, warning they should ‘watch out what you say and what you do’ if they wanted to do well in their law degree.
‘Visit Alice without cops’, leaders urged
Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton are being urged to visit crime-ridden Alice Springs during the election campaign, and see it without police being sent to clear the streets beforehand.
Threat of voice ‘lies’ haunting campaign
Senior figures in the defeated push for an Indigenous voice to parliament have vowed to fight back against what they claim will be ‘lies’ in the federal election, signalling a bitter campaign on Aboriginal affairs in the weeks ahead.
ODPP leaks not acceptable: Premier
Chris Minns says it would be ‘completely unacceptable’ for the state prosecution office to leak information about an underage Aboriginal defendant to a commercial radio station.
Mabo doing her bit to close the health gap
Rebecca Mabo, granddaughter of land rights campaigner Eddie Mabo, is helping close the gap in healthcare.
Ideology 101: students forced into ‘privilege walk’
Macquarie University law students who face the threat of failing a key exam over a lacklustre acknowledgment of country have been made to adopt different personas and perform a ‘privilege walk’.
States grapple with native title fallout
A landmark High Court ruling that native title is property has left state governments and miners grappling with the consequences.
Country rites tokenistic, says Indigenous academic
A prominent Indigenous law academic says he would not follow Macquarie University’s example of assessing law students on how they deliver a welcome to country speech, unless there was a specific reason to do so.
Trespass case seen as possible path to ‘Wiradjuri sovereign nation’
A Wiradjuri man is challenging Charles Sturt University to prove the legitimacy of its land rights, after it appealed for his arrest over alleged trespassing.
Deliver a warm welcome to country or law students fail
Law students at Macquarie University face the threat of failing a key exam if they perform an underwhelming acknowledgement of country.
Blayney link to ‘problematic source’
The pages of an obscure frontier memoir provide rare insight into the potential groundwork for evidence critical to the closure of the Blayney gold mine.
Call for settlement framework in wake of Yunupingu ruling
The commonwealth’s exposure to billions in compensation warrants a serious exploration of how Australia can formally settle with its past, Indigenous leader Peter Yu says.
‘Honour Closing the Gap promises’
Co-author Pat Turner said all governments must begin to do what they told Scott Morrison they would do in 2020 when they agreed to be part of the rewritten Closing the Gap agreement.
Indigenous jail rates threat to Closing the Gap targets
Steep increases in the numbers of Indigenous adults jailed across the NT, Queensland and Western Australia threaten to derail the refreshed Closing the Gap agreement signed in 2020.
17 years later: a crisis that has gone from bad to worse
Closing the Gap still offers the best hope we have for a turnaround in Indigenous incarceration rates and other improvements.
‘Like Wik, Mabo’: landmark High Court decision finds native title is property
The Albanese government is bracing for a nationwide wave of compensation battles with Aboriginal groups after the High Court ruled native title is ‘property’.
State cultural heritage laws ‘causing chaos’: Tehan
Federal Liberal frontbencher Dan Tehan wants an overhaul of Victoria’s cultural heritage laws in the wake of dysfunctional major project processes and the rock climbing saga.
‘Misuse of elder’s image’ ignites family fury
The Bathurst Wiradyuri corporation behind a string of heritage claims has ‘slipped away from any cultural guidance’ its former leader had established, his family claim, striking out against the alleged appropriation of his image.
Bee sting: family fury as elder’s memory ‘exploited’
The family of the late Indigenous leader whose ashes were scattered at Mount Panorama-Wahluu say his legacy has been appropriated, with even his memorial ceremony abused.
Grant for ‘endangered’ languages
The Albanese government has announced $11m in grants for 26 First Nations language projects in more than 40 communities. Some languages are spoken by none to fewer than 10 elderly speakers.
Unearthed court action among Mount Panorama claims
The Indigenous group behind heritage claims on the Blayney mine site and Mount Panorama-Wahluu carried out a controversial scattering of ashes two weeks after settling a bid to block local development.
Taxpayers’ $125,000 to fund Indigenous group’s tree-felling
NSW taxpayers have been asked to fork out for an Indigenous group to cut down and ‘make items’ from a tree that needed to be removed from the proposed site of a controversial $9m performing arts centre.
Native title funds ‘must be put to work’
The private market is the place for traditional owners to invest native title payments rather than in trusts, Marcia Langton says.
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