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The ingenuity most Australians never see
From the Torres Strait to Tassie, from Derby and Darwin to Denmark, from the Cen...
Reece Harley 6 Mar 2026
On Invasion Day, Australia cannot dodge the truth in Geneva
Our people have always told the truth about what January 26 means. Dispossession...
Nerita Waight 26 Jan 2026
We have the answers to the climate crisis and governments must listen before it’s too late
This year's COP 30 in Belem, Brazil, attracted a strong Aboriginal and Torres St...
Dr Hannah McGlade 25 Nov 2025
What Australia can learn from Canada on Truth and Treaty
When our team from the Australian National Centre for Reconciliation, Truth and...
New United Nations Indigenous report marks "a historic shift"
This month, the United Nations published a landmark report that I had the honour...
Jesse J. Fleay 1 Jul 2025
The emerging global political order is a threat to Australian society

We are on the verge of a new global political order, and it is bad for Australian society, and our economy. President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk have told the world about their policy mandate fo...

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Jesse J. Fleay Nov 14, 2024
Speaking up for Palestine on Wiradjuri Country

On 30 June 2024 the Community of Wagga Wagga came together, welcomed by Aunty Pamela Honeysett, Wiradjuri Elder, along with invited guest Assala A Sayara, Palestinan-born woman, mental health professi...

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Jayne Christian Aug 5, 2024
Call for Indigenous justice heard on global stage

This statement by Dr Hannah McGlade was delivered to the UN Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues in New York on 15 April, 2024. Kaya! Warm regards to all Indigenous youth here at this session of the...

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Dr Hannah McGlade Apr 16, 2024
World stage important in fight for Indigenous rights

In the aftermath of the devastating referendum to establish an Indigenous Voice to Parliament there is renewed interest in Indigenous rights and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples...

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Dr Hannah McGlade Dec 18, 2023
From D.C. to WA: What we can learn for our own Cultural Centre

As part of a trip funded by the United States Government, I had the fortune to recently visit the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) in Washington, D. C.

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Zak Kirkup Aug 8, 2023
There is much to learn from the long struggle of Colombia's Indigenous peoples

The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is dedicated to the rights of Indigenous Peoples. Indigenous peoples globally, including in Australia, participated in a decade of UN meetings he...

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Dr Hannah McGlade Mar 27, 2023
Economic pressure, not platitudes, is needed to protect Indigenous rights

A new European Union law that goes into effect in a couple of weeks will help protect Indigenous nations from being exploited by unscrupulous traders.

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Dean Foley Dec 17, 2022
Indigenous self determination the key to struggle against ongoing colonialism

Indigenous rights in the Americas are a sensitive issue, given the history of genocide and exploitation by European imperial powers and the colonial states they left behindBut a recent incident in Bra...

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Dean Foley Dec 12, 2022
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