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Cancel Culture Comes for One of Australia’s Founding Fathers

Commentary Recently, efforts have been made to “cancel” figures linked to the European settlement of Australia. Statues of Captain James Cook, who discovered and claimed the east coast of the ...

June 17, 2022BY Rocco Loiacono

The Indigenous Voice to Parliament Has the Potential to Be Divisive

Commentary Voice. Treaty. Truth. These are the words used to describe the Australian Labor Party’s (ALP) main policy ...

June 10, 2022BY Morgan Begg

The Uluru Statement: Albanese’s Improbable Project

Commentary The new Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, in his first statement in office, committed his government to ...

May 31, 2022BY Gabriël Moens

Liberal MP Keen to Return to Education Portfolio to Tackle Woke Agenda

Australian Liberal MP Alan Tudge has expressed his wish to return to the education portfolio as the shadow ...

May 23, 2022BY Nina Nguyen

Australia’s Labor Party Commits to Closing the Indigenous Health Gap in Latest Election Campaign

Federal Labor has said it will commit to closing the gap on Indigenous Australians' health outcomes if elected ...

April 25, 2022BY Steve Milne

Australian Budget Sets out Measures to Further Close Indigenous Economic Gap

Indigenous Australians will see a significant boost from the Morrison government's 2022-23 Budget after Treasurer Josh Frydenberg announced ...

March 30, 2022BY Steve Milne

Tennis Star Ash Barty Dreams of Inspiring Australian Kids to Play Sport

Freshly retired world number one tennis player Ash Barty has said that part of her next chapter will ...

March 24, 2022BY Steve Milne

Captain Cook Statue Vandalised in Australia Day Protests

Statues of Captain James Cook, the first British explorer to discover Australia, have been vandalised with red spray paint ...

January 26, 2022BY Marina Zhang

Australian Government to Co-design Indigenous Voice From Ground Up

The Australian government will work together with Aboriginal groups to design a representation for Indigenous Australians at all ...

December 17, 2021BY Steve Milne and Rebecca Zhu

Aboriginal Barrister Appointed to Deliver Report on Treaty to Australia’s Northern Territory

The Northern Territory (NT) government on Wednesday appointed Australia's most senior Indigenous barrister Tony McAvoy SC (Senior Counsel) ...

December 8, 2021BY Steve Milne

Australia Heads Towards Raising Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility to 12

All Australian state Attorney-Generals have agreed to support the development of a proposal raising the minimum criminal age of ...

November 16, 2021BY Rebecca Zhu

Welcome to Country: Form Over Substance in Achieving Real Change

Commentary “First, I would like to acknowledge the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of the nation. I ...

October 25, 2021BY Gabriël Moens

Truancy the Roadblock to Closing the Indigenous Achievement Gap

Commentary The decision to remove attendance targets for Indigenous students shows how policymakers have the wrong priorities for ...

July 8, 2021BY Glenn Fahey

School Attendance Biggest Factor to Reduce Education Gap for Australian Indigenous Kids

A new report has found that increasing school attendance among Indigenous students is the single greatest factor needed ...

June 23, 2021BY Rebecca Zhu

New Curriculum Garners Further Criticism From Faith Based and Indigenous Communities

The Australian national curriculum draft continues to attract criticism for its changes to history and civics, which has removed ...

May 6, 2021BY Rebecca Zhu

Report Calls for Fresh Approach to Indigenous Suicide Crisis

Living in safe and clean environments, having access to modern services that individuals find personally meaningful, possessing the ...

May 5, 2021BY Caden Pearson

Ancient Bone Tools in WA Dated to Be Over 35,000 Years Old

Four bone tools discovered in Western Australia have changed how archaeologists think of ancient northern Australian indigenous societies ...

April 8, 2021BY Daniel Khmelev