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We must demand a seat at the table – it’s Mabo’s legacy

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture is vibrant, our people are resilient. Why are we still the most disadvantaged group in Australia?

A First People’s Assembly could deliver what our people have been demanding for so long

The stakes are high. As we try to take treaty from rhetoric to reality, we need to contend with generations of expectation.

Our languages are a tool to understanding our ways of knowing and being

Learning Torres Strait Islander languages is not just learning about words but also our relationships to the land, sea and sky

The Voller Verdict and being human on the internet

Craig Quartermaine reflects on what it is to be human online in light of the high Court's recent Voller Verdict.

Walking together, but which way?

The PM dropped some Indigenous history in his talk yesterday, but he needs to be reminded of some other important events.

Gender and our mob

Gender is often defined by western feminist perspectives, and to date there has been very little research or writings about Aboriginal gender and gender equity.

Keynote address #LowitjaConf2019

Cultural renaissance and the rebirth of our internal nationhood can only be achieved by economic independence - they are align and intrinsically connected....

Universities think they are Star Fleet, but really they are the Borg.

They say they want us to ‘Indigenise’ them, but really they want to assimilate us.

Let’s talk about counting our mob.

The identification of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in official statistics.

When numbers and stories collide – the fight for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women.

As we look to the future, it is well within our grasp that Australia will be the first country to eliminate cervical cancer.

WAM: and just like that, it was gone.

Pablo Escobar said, “everyone has a price, the important thing is to find out what it is”. Ben Wooster and Semele Moore, of newly founded WAM Clothing, asked the question of Aboriginal Flag designer Uncle Harold Thomas. The result was the non-Indigenous duo receiving a worldwide exclusive licence for the Aboriginal Flag on clothing.

The Blackfulla Test: 11 reasons that Indigenous health research grant/publication should be rejected

You may have heard of the Bechdel test, which is a measure of the active representation of women in fiction and film. Well just in time for the Lowijta International Indigenous Health and Wellbeing Conference we bring you “The Blackfulla test”; a test that measures the active representation of Blackfullas in Indigenous health research.

Modern Day Australia Abandons its own Anthem.

In 2016, Indigenous Athlete and now Motivational Speaker Joe Williams took a stand by sitting, and started a nationwide conversation by staying silent. Fellow Indigenous athlete Anthony Mundine has caused similar controversy and just last night Cody Walker, Latrell Mitchell, Josh Addo-Carr and Will Chambers did the same by refusing to sing the Australian national anthem while lining up for the NRL State of Origin Opener.

Community and Cook in 2020 at the Australian Museum

The Australian Museum is providing a platform for our First Nations communities to respond to Cook and the events of 1770

Wake me when Reconciliation Week is over

You can’t tame the white supremacist power structure with cheese!

Your national anthem sucks, get over it

A few years back, Joey Williams caused a bit of a stir when he made a point of not standing for the anthem when he won the Citizen of the year Award in Wagga Wagga.

Election Day in an uncertain country

In an election that had the highest number of enrolled eligible voters in history it seems we have affirmation that we live in a country as uncertain of its future as ever.

Is democracy obsolete in so called australia?

White Australia has a black future

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