Forbes

Protecting Indigenous Populations From Covid-19: The Australian Example

Covid-19 is likely to become endemic, yet through both public health measures and medical solutions we can control the virus. This is the second in a series of articles exploring examples of ...
The Conversation

Australia’s problem with Aboriginal World Heritage

Ian Lilley has a Discovery grant from the Australian Research Council for the study mentioned in the text. He is affiliated with ICOMOS and IUCN, the statutory Advisory Bodies to UNESCO on cultural ...
Time

Australia’s Indigenous Peoples Could Finally Gain Formal Representation in Parliament

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese choked up Thursday as he announced the terms of a referendum that would lead to a profound constitutional change: the creation of a new representative body ...
Reuters

Aboriginal children must learn English: Australian minister

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Aboriginal children should be forced to learn English to escape lives of poverty and inequality, said Australia's indigenous affairs minister. "Too many still only have a ...
SBS

Understanding treaty in Australia: What First Nations people want you to know

Australia is home to the world’s oldest living cultures, yet remains one of the few countries without a national treaty recognising its First Peoples. This means there has never been a broad agreement ...
The New York Times

Aboriginal Hunters’ Fires Help Restore an Australian Desert

A study of how the Martu shaped their land presents an example where humans seem to benefit an environment perceived as wilderness. By JoAnna Klein In Australia in recent decades, the bilby, the ...
CNN

National rugby players sing Australia’s national anthem in Indigenous language for first time before match

National rugby players sang an Indigenous version of Australia’s national anthem for the first time on Saturday, a move that won widespread praise and spurred calls to make it a permanent feature at ...
The Conversation

Invisible language learners: what educators need to know about many First Nations children

Carly Steele received funding from the Australian Government Research Training Program and the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language to conduct this research as ...
CNN

Australia’s first international cricket team found fame in the UK. At home, they were betrayed

Growing up in the small community of Harrow in southern Australia, 86-year-old Lachie Turner spent his childhood hearing legends of the great Aboriginal cricketer Johnny Mullagh. “The story used to be ...
The Diplomat

Time for Australia to Say ‘Indigenous Lives Matter’

A rally organizer leads a march from King George Square to South Brisbane at a Black Lives Matter protest on June 6, 2020, to support the movement over the death of George Floyd in the U.S. and the ...
The Diplomat

Not Guilty Verdict in Police Murder Case Shines Light on Injustices Facing Australia’s Indigenous People

The recent acquittal of a police officer accused of murdering an Indigenous teenager has put the issue of Australian policing toward Aboriginal communities firmly back into the spotlight. On Friday, ...