The Victorian Indigenous senator’s predictable and embarrassing political stunts are all about boosting her profile rather than advancing causes she professes to fight for, all the while pocketing a taxpayer-funded salary of almost $260,000 from an institution she claims to rage against.
The claims were challenged by another archaeologist, who labelled the 59,000 year estimate as “highly speculative”.
Crisis meeting called as NSW Premier weighs in on ‘bee dreaming’ drama, saying the Blayney goldmine site’s cultural heritage had already been properly assessed.
WATCH | A video shows how South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council was spying on the emails of rival corporations despite receiving $2m in federal funding this year.
Senators from NSW are under pressure to undo Tanya Plibersek’s Blayney goldmine ban after doubt on the authenticity of the bee dreaming story that underpinned intervention.
The London lawyer spearheading a huge class action against BHP says he will fight for Indigenous Australians’ cultural heritage as he plans to triple staffing in his new Sydney office.
The anthropologist whose research helped to debunk the ‘fabricated’ secret women’s business at the Hindmarsh Island Royal Commission has cast serious doubt on claims of a dreaming story about the blue-banded bee at the proposed Blayney gold mine.
Health leaders, peak organisations and top doctors in the NT have labelled as disgraceful the CLP government’s plans to remove a minimum unit price for alcohol across regions that are awash in grog and violence.
Anthony Albanese has expressed no regret for holding the failed voice referendum one year ago, as he was criticised by Yes and No campaigners for a lack of leadership on Indigenous affairs.
Indigenous Affairs Minister Malarndirri McCarthy is urging her opposition counterpart, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, to sit down with her one year after the defeat of the voice referendum and restart the reconciliation process.
The Environment Minister cited a Bathurst Post Office mural to back up a Dreaming story that the Orange Land Council says should not be used to veto Regis Resource’s gold mine at Blayney.
Prominent lawyers condemn claims a misinformation bill could have helped secure a voice victory, with one supporter alleging the Yes side pushed untruths.
Indigenous senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price says the Albanese government has no interest in listening to marginalised Indigenous people and continues to fail on Aboriginal policy.
The Yes campaign lost the voice referendum after Labor rejected pleas by Indigenous leaders for a misinformation bill that would have helped defeat ‘Trumpian’ lies, says advocate Megan Davis.
Fatima Payman’s move to lead a breakaway party named Australia’s Voice has angered distinguished Indigenous figures, who are in solemn reflection over the defeat of the voice referendum a year ago.
West Australian senator Dorinda Cox said she was disappointed she had not been able to participate in the process that led to the censure against her.
A former media adviser has described seeing co-workers in Greens senator Dorinda Cox’s office appearing anxious and visibly distressed.
One prominent Indigenous leader sent a letter to the Greens earlier this year accusing First Nations spokeswoman Dorinda Cox of acting in an ‘unprofessional, disrespectful manner’.
Respected anthropologist Kim Anthony Raymont Akerman, who studied Indigenous culture in the Kimberley, has died, aged 76.
An email has all but confirmed suspicions that the South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council had accessed the emails of a separate Aboriginal corporation.
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