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Doctors warn Victoria against legalising euthanasia

Doctors warn Victoria against legalising euthanasia  - The Government is considering assisted suicide but doctors say expanded palliative care would deliver better results. Professor Peter Hudson from St ...

How can we meaningfully recognise cities as Indigenous places?

How can we meaningfully recognise cities as Indigenous places? - The return of land to Indigenous custodians in Australia over the past 20 years is a dramatic shift in Australian land tenure and management. Yet this ...

Bringing social change to indigenous people

Bringing social change to indigenous people - Being from Australia , Kate Falconer's interest in indigenous populations in that country began at an early age. As she grew, she began to think about ...

10 things you should know about slavery in Australia

10 things you should know about slavery in Australia - The dark history of forced labour and Stolen Wages is slowly becoming a national conversation, with people sharing their traumatic first-hand ...

Treat Your Eyes With Australia's Most Mesmerising Indigenous Art

Treat Your Eyes With Australia's Most Mesmerising Indigenous Art -  Indigenous Australia is the oldest living culture on earth, so you can imagine the art it bears is as sacred as it is significant. Stories from the Dreamtime ...

Ongoing gross violations of human rights, genocide, ethnocide, ecocide in 'Australia'

Ongoing gross violations of human rights, genocide, ethnocide, ecocide in ' Australia ' - The Gathering was opened by veteran campaigner Denis Walker Nunukel, who was at the 1972 Aboriginal Embasy. He identified the need to issue Bills of Cost against the foreign occupying powers, that is, the governments of the Australian States and Territories, and the Commonwealth of Australia, which are but colonies of Britain and which rule ‘Australia’, not in right of the people, by rather in right of the Crown of England, which is the foreign occupying power.

Indigenous textiles in a contemporary light

Indigenous textiles in a contemporary light - The continuing strength and importance of textile practice in the Pacific and Indigenous Australia continues to carry a lot of cultural weight and a place ...

Look up: how policy gaps and failure blind us to what's going on in Indigenous affairs

Look up: how policy gaps and failure blind us to what's going on in Indigenous affairs - Cash is critical for survival in remote Australia : it is a key element of the sharing economy, one of the strengths of Aboriginal kinship and sociality.