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Australia’s own anti-racism framework on the cards

Community & Social

The Australian Human Rights Commission has published the building blocks for a national anti-racism framework.

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Insights and analysis

The Queen takes with her an Australian model long let go

By Melissa Coade

Federal

As the Queen’s funeral is live streamed to us from London, Australia is reminded how its sense of nationhood has evolved.

Albanese calls Uluru Statement from the Heart a sign of ‘manners’

By Anna Macdonald

Culture

The PM recommitted to the Uluru Statement from the Heart during the Welcome to Country ceremony at the beginning of the first day of the 47th Parliament sitting.

WA government project to remember Aboriginal prisoners buried on Rottnest Island

By Shannon Jenkins

News

The Whadjuk Noongar people of Western Australia will lead a state government project that aims to reconcile the history of Aboriginal peoples’ imprisonment at Rottnest Island.

Tall ship tales: oral accounts illuminate past encounters and objects, but we need to get our story straight

By Maria Nugent Dr Gaye Sculthorpe

Culture

The accounts given of Captain Cook and the Endeavour are hardly ever a straightforward recounting of what Cook did. And they rarely tally with what is recorded in the voyage accounts.

How Indigenous songs recount deep histories of trade between Australia and Southeast Asia

By Aaron Corn

Culture

There exists an enduring legacy of extensive engagements with Southeast Asia that long predate the 1788 landing of the British First Fleet in Sydney and continue to affirm the ancestral rights of Indigenous peoples in Australia.

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Expert briefings

Garran Oration 2019: Mick Dodson has seen the public service struggle with change and Indigenous decision-making, but there’s no need to be afraid

By Mick Dodson

Career Advice

Professor Mick Dodson, the first-ever Northern Territory Treaty Commissioner, delivered the Garran Oration at the IPAA National Conference, held in Darwin on 26 September 2019. Here is a transcript of his oration.

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