First Nations Peoples
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What Do First Nations Peoples Mean When They Say ‘Sovereignty Was Never Ceded’?
In discussing the Uluru Statement from the Heart, I will be doing something that, as a lawyer, is perhaps not best practice: I am not going to define my terms or confine my comments to the law. Although our constitutional system of governance is underpinned by a rigid concept of sovereignty we have inherited from…
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Amy Thunig on How Indigenous Academia Embraced Her and Navigating the Stigma of Having a Father in ‘Lock up’
The energy of academic conferences isn’t like your average conference. It is the bringing together of academics from universities all around the country, sometimes around the globe, all working within similar or related specialisations. This means one thing: niche gossip and lots of it. There’s a reason why so many academics love reality television –…
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How ‘Closing the Gap’ May Close Doors for First Nations Women in a New Plan to End Violence
The ten-year National Plan to End Violence Against Women and Children was launched this week. It is without doubt an important policy for shaping the actions and priorities of all governments to work across four main areas of prevention, early intervention, response, as well as recovery and healing. The National Plan states there are key…
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5 Key Points From Australia’s State of the Environment Report
Climate change is exacerbating pressures on every Australian ecosystem and Australia now has more foreign plant species than native, according to the highly anticipated State of the Environment Report released today. The report also found the number of listed threatened species rose 8% since 2016 and more extinctions are expected in the next decades. The…