Indigenous culture
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- University
‘Noble savage’ and ‘ritual spearings’: Melbourne University race row re-ignites
Administrators braced for a backlash after a racially charged email from a law school academic was posted around the Parkville campus.
- Noel Towell
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Environmentalists say our green goals don’t protect nature or work for business. Here’s how Labor plans to fix the problem
A federal environment protection agency is back on the agenda as a controversial gas project approval brings focus to the government’s long list of overdue environmental reforms.
- Mike Foley
‘There’s always one person’: The show taking a funny and frank look at filmmaking
Based on “lived experience”, Warm Props is part of SBS’ Digital Originals, which has a history of breaking new talent.
- Bridget McManus
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- Dicey Topics
- Good Weekend
‘It’s been interesting’: The awkward questions Brooke Boney gets in England
The Gamilaroi journalist on having her looks publicly discussed, words banned as a child and studying at Oxford Uni.
- Benjamin Law
- Opinion
- Climate crisis
In one awful decision, Albanese has revealed his do-nothing plan
If you want to govern effectively, you have to be prepared to stand up to powerful interest groups. It’s now clear Albanese isn’t prepared to do that.
- Ross Gittins
‘Grave robber’ posed for cameras as he pillaged human remains
The bi-nation expedition in 1948 was launched amid great fanfare but quickly turned toxic with secrets, scandals and the pillaging of Aboriginal burial sites, as revealed in this edited extract.
- Martin Thomas
When worlds collide
Award-winning historian Martin Thomas tells how the US-Australian scientific expedition team set out with fanfare in 1948 and how quickly the expedition turned toxic.
‘The rocky path will only become more difficult’: Leader wants more than basic rights
Ahead of delivering a major speech honouring Eddie Mabo, Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner has said more needs to be done to support Queensland’s First Nations.
- Courtney Kruk
Rock art expert breaks silence over Burrup emissions study controversy
A leading statistician on the Murujuga emissions study has spoken to support an 800-page report days after blasting bureaucrats for “unacceptable interference”.
- Hamish Hastie
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- Gas
A prince, traditional owners and a ‘carbon bomb’: Inside Woodside’s extension plans
Energy giant Woodside has won preliminary approval to keep operating its WA oil and gas fields for another 45 years. But at what environmental cost?
- Bianca Hall
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